Hi,

As far as I know, the difference is tabread4~ does interpolation whereas tabplay~ doesn't.

Does this mean using tabread4~ can play sample with better sound quality than using tabplay~?

If so, why would any people use tabplay~ instead of tabread4~?

For example, if I want to create a drum machine that is simply playing one-shot drum samples, (without any time stretch and so on) then, can I use tabplay~ or should I still go with tabread4~ for better sound quality?

One last question, which is CPU-wise faster between tabplay~ and readsf~?

tabplay~ ist for the one-shot play of a soundfile or table

tabread~ and tabread4~ is for samplespecific readout of a soundfile to perform all you can imagine with the contents of a table

tabplay~ will be faster ause its reads out of a buffer which is already filled with data within pd
readsf~ have to locate the file, wait for your hardrives to be ready to read it, the read it into pd and from this point on its much like tabplay~

for your drummaschine it would make no real sense to use tabplay4~ if you only play at the original speed, but if you want to change the speed just a litle tabread4~ would be wise to use

Thank you for the reply.
So do you mean that there's no difference between tabplay~ and tabread4~ in sound quality if I play the sample at the original speed?

jips, it only use more cpu time to process the 4x interpolation

Thank you so much!!

youre welcome, I hope you will achieve your goals