Cycling 74 » Topic: buffer~ or sfplay~ — which is more cpu efficienct? http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/buffer-or-sfplay-which-is-more-cpu-efficienct/feed Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:26:02 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/buffer-or-sfplay-which-is-more-cpu-efficienct/#post-49188 <![CDATA[buffer~ or sfplay~ — which is more cpu efficienct?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/buffer-or-sfplay-which-is-more-cpu-efficienct/#post-49188 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:17:26 +0000 kampana hi,

i’m writing a patch in which i need to have about 20-30 samples, about 30sec to 1min each, simultaneously looping. which object would be best to use for that purpose in terms of saving CPU consumption?

thanks,
K.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/buffer-or-sfplay-which-is-more-cpu-efficienct/#post-176709 <![CDATA[Re: buffer~ or sfplay~ — which is more cpu efficienct?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/buffer-or-sfplay-which-is-more-cpu-efficienct/#post-176709 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:27:42 +0000 goodparleyandorfing [sfplay~] reads from disk whereas [buffer~] loads samples into memory. so [sfplay~] is less cpu hungry but also slower to read from, and the contents are less manipulable. if you only need to loop them then probably use [sfplay~], but it depends on your computer

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/buffer-or-sfplay-which-is-more-cpu-efficienct/#post-176710 <![CDATA[Re: buffer~ or sfplay~ — which is more cpu efficienct?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/buffer-or-sfplay-which-is-more-cpu-efficienct/#post-176710 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:42:42 +0000 kampana thank you.

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