On 5/21/06, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
On Sat, 20 May 2006, thewade wrote:
Sorry, that is the bang gui object, the circle in the square. [value] object seems to be a lot like a [float] tied into a [send] or [recieve]. If you merged [float], [send] and [recieve] you would have [value] is what I was trying to say.
Yes, now that I think of it, you are right.
I didn't know that about [line]. Thanks for the info! I always thought [line] was just [line~] except at the control rate. I learn somethin' new every day.
What's "control rate"? the messagesystem doesn't have a "rate". Its rate is whichever speed individual messages are fired at, which is very much varying, as you can select any rate you want using [metro] or the second argument of [line] or a setting in [gemwin] or whatever else that use "pd clocks" to work. In addition to that, it's possible to remove messages from a stream, duplicate them, etc.
This is what makes the messagesystem completely different from the DSP, in which everything happens at fixed rate (one fixed rate per subpatch).
Oh. Nevermind. I never knew they were independent. But still, the audio can't respond to control changes mid-block, so for real-time audio control there is a rate.... right?