Hi Matt -

>From Pd's perspective at least, it would be more efficient to handle the
messages separately (some of Pd's list operations have to copy the list,
which would be expensive if done iteratively over a long list).

cheers
Miller

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 01:37:05PM +0900, i go bananas wrote:
> I've got a six voice synth, each with about 20 variable parameters, and
> then sequence data, etc... and all of this data is being stored by the
> objective C front-end of my app.
>
> can someone tell me, hopefully from experience, what the best format is to
> send a lot of pattern data between obj C and libPD ???  should i package
> all the data as one huge list, or break it all into individual variables,
> or is it ok to organize it into groups for ease of management.
>
> my plan was to send messages like this from obj C:
>
> to [r instr1_pattern_data] :  [vol 0.8, pan 0.5, pitch 0.75, param1 0.99
> ... etc]
>
> actually, i'm not the one doing the C coding, i'm, just doing the pd side,
> but i have to prepare things on my end to make it flow as well as possible.
> Overall, i think there about 1400 values that need to be passed for every
> pattern, so it probably does need to be as well streamlined as possible.
>
> cheers for any help
>
> Matt

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