[PD] best format for send/receive between iOS and libPD

Billy Stiltner billy.stiltner at gmail.com
Sat May 3 18:15:45 CEST 2014


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On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Hi Matt -
>
> From Pd's perspective at least, it would be more efficient to handle the
> messages separately (some of Pd's list operations have to copy the list,
> which would be expensive if done iteratively over a long list).
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 01:37:05PM +0900, i go bananas wrote:
> > I've got a six voice synth, each with about 20 variable parameters, and
> > then sequence data, etc... and all of this data is being stored by the
> > objective C front-end of my app.
> >
> > can someone tell me, hopefully from experience, what the best format is
> to
> > send a lot of pattern data between obj C and libPD ???  should i package
> > all the data as one huge list, or break it all into individual variables,
> > or is it ok to organize it into groups for ease of management.
> >
> > my plan was to send messages like this from obj C:
> >
> > to [r instr1_pattern_data] :  [vol 0.8, pan 0.5, pitch 0.75, param1 0.99
> > ... etc]
> >
> > actually, i'm not the one doing the C coding, i'm, just doing the pd
> side,
> > but i have to prepare things on my end to make it flow as well as
> possible.
> > Overall, i think there about 1400 values that need to be passed for every
> > pattern, so it probably does need to be as well streamlined as possible.
> >
> > cheers for any help
> >
> > Matt
>
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