Hallo Frank :-), thanks for your reply
(i updated the subject since the discussion moved on..)
While you could bang vsnapshot~ at samplerate and keep track of samples in a
list or so, this is a waste of resources. Something like tabsend~ or tabwrite~ probably is much better: Just write a number of samples into a table and then analyse that for peaks. There are some externals for that or do it manually.
As I understand it (and hopefully i am not completely wrong..) you don't have to 'store' a list and 'then' read again it to find the max magnitude. It's as simple as the following:
(some signal) *I* *I* [pd metro@samplerate] *I*/ [vsnapshot~ ] | [abs ] | [moses ]X[t f ] | [f ]
So in the last [f ] you have the max magnitude stored and you can bang it to the [vu ] inlet say at a fix rate (which is the simplest way, it just requires a [metro ] banging [f ] and resetting [moses ])
I don't understand how using an array to store samples and then analyse it is more efficient than that. It seems to me you have to read 2 times: one to write the array in the fist place and one more to analyse it.
a simple comparison:
read-analyse vs. read-write-read-analyse
Please correct me if i am missing something and post an example with the use of an array if you can.
alabala