[PD] soundfiler alternative?

[zmoelnig at iem.at]

On 02/27/2017 07:06 PM, José Rafael Subía Valdez wrote:
> Thank you Lucas and Ingo,
> 
> well. I do need to load a lot of samples if I want them preloaded.
> Regarding the ram post that you sent, as I understand, that is exactly what
> table does, as it stores it in RAM (am I right?)


well, [table] stores the samples as floating point (taking 4 bytes per
sample; and 8 byte on 64bit systems), whereas most soundfiles will use
less bytes.
so having them on a RAM-disk, could indeed help.

> 
> Ingo, if I understand correclty, I need to record the audio from readsf~
> into a table. this means that I need to create the record system to avoid
> clicks (fades in and out). This seams overcomplicated for a simple thing.
> But it appears to be the only solution for this problem.
> 

it is not such a simple thing if you care for deterministic
sample-synchronous playback (you personally might not care, but Pd does).
however, there is a simple solution at hand: get youself plenty of RAM
and pre-load everything into tables.
32GB cost about 250,-€ and will allow you to load approx. 24h of raw
audio, which is probably enough.
it's not exactly super-cheap, but writing software isn't either.

gfmdsar
IOhannes



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