[PD] big soundfiles

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, tim vets wrote:

> "If you have to play a very large file in RAM, you can do it by emptying 
> your signal-rate counter into a message-rate counter that takes care of 
> the big digits while the signal-rate counter keeps on taking care of the 
> small digits and fractions. (do you want an example ?) "
> which afaict he didn't give an example for yet.
> I'm not sure what he meant, but that was what I made up of it...probably wrong :)

Done...

The idea is that if you want very precise [tabread4~] on large sounds, you 
have to do the lookup relatively to a recently looked-up point, so, at 
every block boundary, the newest point becomes the new reference point, 
such that the signal-rate read-head stays in low values (high precision), 
whereas the message-rate read-head does all the large motion. That way, 
you can get up to twice the number of precision bits (but usually less 
than that).

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