i am wondering if someone could explain the equivalent in PD to the f-tables and GEN subroutines in CSound.
The f-tables are akin to "tabread~"-ing an $0-array into a phasor, such as the classic "continuous soft and relaxing" demo which we have all grown to have forcefully embedded in our brains while learning about phasor~s in the looping sampler tutorial. (I'll be damned if someday I hear that sample in a high gloss pop song). You can look at the array tutorial file also to see how to add sinusoidal funtions to create neat sounding waves, or even draw your own. I recommend an array size of 512 or 1024 for quality's sake. You need to multiply your phasor output by the same number as your array size too...I hope I'm not rambling. I just got back from an afternoon cocktail party and feel helpfully inebriated! Good luck, you'll find PD better for realtime than CSound, but if you want better sequencing and don't like qlists, professional midi controllers or reaktor/analogue style sequencing, you might have trouble with reproducible results. Blah. Oh yeah, and the GEN functions are pretty much going to be limited to things like your basic osc~, phasor~, etc. There aren't really any complicated built in functions like the CSound crowd is used to other than the externals that other people have made, and the patches that you are either creative enough to build or lucky enough to find from the list/webring. But I can't remember, there may be a csound~ external in the works for pd. I know that MAX/MSP has one.
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this has been a telepathically-charged broadcast from the mind of kyle klipowicz. care to respond?