Cheng Chien-Wen

As said in the help file, the 3rd arguement of buffer~ is "optional initial length" or "buffer size" in ms. But info~ object also has another similar output called "total buffer time", which seems to report the length of the sound file loaded in buffer~. I feel confused with these two things. Could anyone explain the difference between "buffer size" and "total buffer time" ?

Does the "buffer size" arguement really limit the accessible temporal points in the loaded sound file ? I just read a patch with buffer size set to 1000, but when I load a 5 min audio file into it, the whole file still can be accessed with play~. Could anyone explain it a little bit ?

As said in the help file, the 3rd arguement of buffer~ is "optional initial length" or "buffer size" in ms. But info~ object also has another similar output called "total buffer time", which seems to report the length of the sound file loaded in buffer~. I feel confused with these two things. Could anyone explain the difference between "buffer size" and "total buffer time" ? 

Does the "buffer size" arguement really limit the accessible temporal points in the loaded sound file ? I just read a patch with buffer size set to 1000, but when I load a 5 min audio file into it, the whole file still can be accessed with play~. Could anyone explain it a little bit ? 

confused-with-buffer-size-and-total-buffer-time

Problem solved. I just noitced that when the buffer is replaced with a new sound file, the original buffer length setting by the arguement is also replaced.

This may be a bit off topic and perhaps well-known by all. I have add some

disk access issues recording audio with sfrecord~ so a switched to recording

into a buffer~ then writing to disk when finished. The down side is that I

must estimate the recording time and size the buffer~ accordingly.

On 7/7/07 11:28 AM, "Cheng Chien-Wen" wrote:

> Problem solved. I just noitced that when the buffer is replaced with a new

> sound file, the original buffer length setting by the arguement is also

This may be a bit off topic and perhaps well-known by all.  I have add some
disk access issues recording audio with sfrecord~ so a switched to recording
into a buffer~ then writing to disk when finished.  The down side is that I
must estimate the recording time and size the buffer~ accordingly.

On 7/7/07 11:28 AM, "Cheng Chien-Wen"  wrote:

>
> Problem solved. I just noitced that when the buffer is replaced with a new
> sound file, the original buffer length setting by the arguement is also
> replaced.

Cheers
Gary Lee Nelson
Oberlin College
www.timara.oberlin.edu/GaryLeeNelson

confused with "buffer size" and "total buffer time"