ecila

Is there any deep reason that maximum length of lists is set to 256 ? (other than having to make them a finite length and 256 being a kinda reasonably large power of 2 ?)

I may be missing a simple solution, but am working with something that chucks 512 floats about. In the first case, I just want to do a noise convolution similar to the forbidden planet example patch, but with a bigger FFT frame (to give a more detailed bottom end), and using the first 512 rather than 253 bins.

If my explorations don't deceive me, send and receive will happily send lists longer than this, but any list operators even 'prepend' will truncate a list > 256 ? - in the Forbidden Planet patch the .pfft takes the array in and prepends 'set 0' to fill a table. If you send it 512 vals, it only forwards the first 256.

So Peter Elsea's lovely LtoTab object will do a fine job, but it too bears a #define MAXSIZE 256 ...

I shall just try recompiling it with 512, but I wandered whether this is going to cause any problems and if there is a fundamental relevance of the 256 ??

I may be missing a simple solution, but am working with something that chucks 512 floats about. In the first case, I just want to do a noise convolution similar to the forbidden planet example patch, but with a bigger FFT frame (to give a more detailed bottom end), and using the first 512 rather than 253 bins. 

So Peter Elsea's lovely LtoTab object will do a fine job, but it too bears a #define MAXSIZE 256    ...

list-lengths

If you search the list, there are plenty explanations as to why the

256 limit. There are also lots of solution. Anything with a 'j,' as

they say: Jitter, java, javascript. Go to the java folder in the

cycling74 folder, and there are great mxj classes that don't have the

> Is there any deep reason that maximum length of lists is set to 256 ? (other than having to make them a finite length and 256 being a kinda reasonably large power of 2 ?)

> I may be missing a simple solution, but am working with something that chucks 512 floats about. In the first case, I just want to do a noise convolution similar to the forbidden planet example patch, but with a bigger FFT frame (to give a more detailed bottom end), and using the first 512 rather than 253 bins.

> If my explorations don't deceive me, send and receive will happily send lists longer than this, but any list operators even 'prepend' will truncate a list > 256 ? - in the Forbidden Planet patch the .pfft takes the array in and prepends 'set 0' to fill a table. If you send it 512 vals, it only forwards the first 256.

> So Peter Elsea's lovely LtoTab object will do a fine job, but it too bears a #define MAXSIZE 256 ...

> I shall just try recompiling it with 512, but I wandered whether this is going to cause any problems and if there is a fundamental relevance of the 256 ??

If you search the list, there are plenty explanations as to why the
256 limit.  There are also lots of solution.  Anything with a 'j,' as
they say: Jitter, java, javascript.  Go to the java folder in the
cycling74 folder, and there are great mxj classes that don't have the
limit.

On 7/18/07, alice  wrote:
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> Is there any deep reason that maximum length of lists is set to 256 ? (other than having to make them a finite length and 256 being a kinda reasonably large power of 2 ?)
>
> I may be missing a simple solution, but am working with something that chucks 512 floats about. In the first case, I just want to do a noise convolution similar to the forbidden planet example patch, but with a bigger FFT frame (to give a more detailed bottom end), and using the first 512 rather than 253 bins.
>
> If my explorations don't deceive me, send and receive will happily send lists longer than this, but any list operators even 'prepend' will truncate a list > 256 ? - in the Forbidden Planet patch the .pfft takes the array in and prepends 'set 0' to fill a table. If you send it 512 vals, it only forwards the first 256.
>
> So Peter Elsea's lovely LtoTab object will do a fine job, but it too bears a #define MAXSIZE 256    ...
>
> I shall just try recompiling it with 512, but I wandered whether this is going to cause any problems and if there is a fundamental relevance of the 256 ??
>
> Many thanks
>
> alice
>
>


In my expirience, you can use more than one to get all the "point" you want.

do you need 512 words in a list? DMX maybe?

Use two sincronized lists... or more anything is possible. you can allways find a way to do it!

thanks all. have been away from max for too long and had forgotten about mxj. Solved in seconds.

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