Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
On May 23, 2008, at 9:00 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I just had a thought, what about adding an outlet to [block~] that will output the block size as a float when [block~] is banged? I can't think of any other way to query what the current block size is, and it would be useful sometimes.
banging [switch~] allows you to do dsp processing on demand. since [block~] and [switch~] are so closely related (on the Pd side they are very similar (with [switch~] being a better [block~]); on the C side they are the basically same) i would suggest to do any additional overloading.
i agree however, that it would be nice to get the current blocksize, overlap and oversample from within Pd.
It seems that adding an outlet to block~/switch~ seems to be the most obvious interface for getting the data. Perhaps just a message then?
I'd personally prefer new objects:
[blocksize~] [overlap~] [oversampling~]
to match the existing:
[samplerate~]
Rationale:
You might want to get the blocksize etc in more than one place. It might be inconvenient to patch cables from the [block~]. Plus the reasons that IOhannes mentioned.
Thanks,
Claude