[PD] maximum "control rate" in Pd

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

> The attached patch lets you see Pd's "control rate" in action.

this is not the best way to measure this, cause [*~ 0] is not able to
convert data to audio as you expect, it's best to use [vline~].

cheers

2015-03-13 14:55 GMT-03:00 Martin Peach <chakekatzil at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 3:51 AM, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> About the "control rate" paradigm in Pd, I have to admit that when I
>> asked about it I was thinking about it in relation to what that means in
>> supercollider and Csound, but I also always considered that Pd doesn't
>> really have that kind of "control rate" per se. It's nice that we can look
>> deeply into what it all means in the Pd context.
>>
>> But yeah, I think everyone gets the question anyway, but the final
>> detailed answer is still out there somewhere.
>>
>> This is what I get so far, anyway: By thinking of more of a general
>> concept from the SC/Csound realm, a control rate is something that is
>> slower than audio rate and it doesn't make sense that it can go higher than
>> audio rate (thus some may consider it "curious"). Simply put, since Pd
>> does not have this kind of paradigm in its structure, control messages have
>> no real boundary and are free to be fired at any rate that your computer
>> can manage and restricted only to bit float limitations.
>>
>> By making it more straightforward, it has no limits, it can go faster
>> than you'll ever need it to until it kills your CPU.
>>
>> The attached patch lets you see Pd's "control rate" in action. It shows a
> graph of a wave being chopped at control rate. It won't chop any faster
> than about 1ms and it's irregular.
>
> Martin
>
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