Hi list,
having asked my students to compose pieces in Pd using audio data in tables and reading them via tabread4~ my ears are still slightly bleeding from the interpolation artefacts audible in almost every second composition. Surely, everyone likes to slow down playback and I think it should be possible without too many audible artifacts in Pd.
There is this legendary discussion on this list https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2008-06/062864.html after Cyrille kindly posted about his tabread4c~ external. He also pointed out more elaborate interpolation schemes such as in https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2008-06/063221.html At that time a lot of list members agreed that it might be great to switch interpolation algorithms in tabread4~ with an argument or message to the object. As far as I can tell no additional interpolation got implemented until today. Am I correct here?
The issue got briefly revisited two years later in 2010 https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2010-03/077232.html and raised by me again in 2015 https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2015-05/110312.html https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2015-06/110751.html after which I switched to supercollider for the specific project I was working on at that time as it performed better at slow playback.
What could be a possible way to get slow playback from tables with less artifacts? (I am tempted to add "in 2019") ;)
Thank you for all ideas and comments! P