[PD] soundfiler alternative?

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Tue Feb 28 10:18:06 CET 2017


On 2017-02-28 07:42, José Rafael Subía Valdez wrote:
> Thank you all..
> 
> but I am developing patches that are handed to performers and should work
> out of the box, I can't depend on the expensive machines and RAM-DISK
> settings because I can not tell my performers - you need to do all of this
> and invest in your computer first before you play my music. Why? because
> this is something I am doing for my PhD. Yes..saying "buy a fancy computer
> with lots of RAM" is easier in Europe or the US than in other places of the
> world 

just to make sure: i'm totally aware that my advice was targetted at a
rich western society. with all the problems that arise from that.

> So not really wanna discuss finances.

but of course you are.

> and that is not my aim. I am trying to squeeze the best solutions on
> any type of machine and to provide people that are not necessary computer
> music users with the friendliest setup I can think of.
> 
> the computer I am programming this is a iMac from 2007 with 4 gb of RAM. I
> have many processes including FFT, but thanks to switch~ I am able to
> optimize the patch. I just have this problem that causes audio drops when
> loading each sample.

you might want to look at the "iem16" library i once wrote to provide a
(packed) 16bit storage of audio data.
it allows you to preload much more data, at a possible loss of data
precision (but your WAV files are probably still 16bit only, so you
won't lose anything here).
it needs to be compiled though, and afaics deken only has binaries for
OSX and linux
so you might need to provide a w32 binary for your friends that can
afford to buy a w32 machine.

fgamsdr
IOhannes


> 
> Thanks again
> 

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