Hey All,

I got a few questions, mods please let me know if i should split them into diff posts?

1. Does anyone have a wavetable synth that i can lookup external wavetables? (in .wav format)

2. I'd like to really test the latency/synthesis capabilities of PD, therefore, can someone point me to the BIGGEST (i.e. most intensive) pd synth around?

3. How does the Pd engine handle itself on 64bit?

Thanks so much for any answers!

3.audioexamples / J08.classicsynth.pd

When I first got my new computer I copied out eight of those to see if it could handle it - this synth pretty much killed my G4.

Thanks PonZo,

I managed to get to 20 instances without crashing and then my fingers hurt so i stopped...

Do you, or anyone else, know of any externals that would be extremely CPU intensive?

Anyone else got little help for the other questions?

Tx again!

Anyway, you don't want things that are CPU intensive!?!?!?! Are you hoping to use Pd for live performance that is synthesis heavy? Do you need to play an instrument that will interact with the computer in some way?

It works on 64 bit. This is all that I know. I believe that the latest version takes some advantage of 64 bit architecture but I am unsure, see the release notes.

Is the WAV file in question exactly one period? Or would you like to write a program that will detect its different periods and bump each of those into a, say, 1024 point table, so that any timbre present in the WAV file can be reused at any pitch? And played through the different timbres in sequence? With adjustable speed, orientation, whatever?

Cause that'd be tricky. There are some gurus on here, be patient and their wisdom will flow from your computer screen as water from a spray bottle...agh! agh! stop spraying me! Okay go read this tutorial. You'll see.

Hey Ponzo,

>>Are you hoping to use Pd for live performance that is synthesis heavy?<<

Thats correct - more precisely, i have a friend that wants to write some externals for us to use in a live setting, and before he begins (rather than writing/compiling as VST) he wanted to make sure the Pd engine could handle itself in that situation! Therefore i wanted some patches to test - i did use the vst~ object to test some CPU intensive plugs and they handled totally fine which is good news. Id still like to test with a huge native Pd synth however.

>>Is the WAV file in question exactly one period?<<

Thats correct, im using one of those large single cycle libraries with 1k of waveforms. Instead of using the normal shapes as oscillators, id like to load those waveforms (like Alchemy VST).

Thanks for all ur help thus far!