Hi again

Sorry for these inane questions about table reading...

I've been experimenting with xgroove~ and it seems to fit the job. As an object of convenience it means that I can focus on on other aspects of whatever I'm trying to build. But I can't get the niggling (slap on the back of the hand) feeling that I should be using the hand build sample player - purely as a point of learning PD and understanding which approach is best for the task.

But, from a point of interest, what drives it?

Also, what are the advantages between all the methods (phasor~/vline~/line~ etc) and which one should I be focusing on, as quite frankly I'm getting myself in a muddle! 8/

I am familiar with the phasor approach as it makes more sense to me. Vline stumps me when I comes to doing varispeed. (i *can* read around the table with it though and understand the messages and [delay] retriggering part.

If anyone could clarify this for me it would be greatly appreciated. thanks!

Si

I don't know anything about xgroove, but from what I understand, the advantage of vline~ over line~ (and possibly phasor~) is that vline~ has sample accurate timing whilst line~ can only be reset between blocks. From what you are saying it sounds like you might need the vline~ (but it's more cpu-intensive).

roman just posted this on the mailign list:

theoretically, this approach should also work well with changing the
pitch while playing, if i am not totally mistaken. i never tried to
implement it myself yet, but since you send a message to [vline~] you
also know at any time, where [vline~] actually is. the idea is to
measure the time between the inital message to [vline~] and the moment,
where you want to change the pitch. with the timevalue and the values
from the initial message you could calculate [vline~] actual position.
with taking into account [vline~]'s actual position and the new pitch,
you could generate a new message for [vline~]. like that, it should be
possible to change the pitch at any time with (sub-?)sample accuracy and
without having jumps in the playback