Alexandre Porres wrote:

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"I feel Max produce a smoother audio than Pd. Didit"

Well, if you use [tabread4~] or any of the many other Pd objects that use the same broken interpolation algorithm (copy/paste programming), you get horrible noise.  If you use [tabread4] to interpolate graphical parameters for animations, the discontinuities in the derivatives are really obvious.

Pd's cubic interpolator is a standard one (not the only standard one) -- it's the same Lagrange interpolator as the one used in csound. [tabread4c~] or whatever it is was an attempt to bring in the one used in supercollider, which is an Hermite cubic interpolator. I haven't tried to figure out what max uses, but it wouldn't be too hard.

Matt