[sharing] evaluate/store peaks and their frequency

brendan mccloskey's icon

"My First Share", or something

As the average Max user, I find this utility of mine invaluable, particularly when assessing sensor data. It reports data peaks and the time between those peaks.

(must.....learn.......to...build........externals)

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

Brendan

MIB's icon

Hi Brendan,

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

I made a couple of changes to your patch. Hope you don't mind. I eliminated the if statements in your subpatch... I have been taught that they are evil and I generally stay away from them ;)
I also got rid of the sprintf object. sprintf creates a new entry into the symbol table each time it is used. If you are running the patch for a while (albeit a long while), you will fill up the table... again, I was taught to stay away from it unless absolutely necessary or there is a small amount of strings to be created. so I just store the numbers and then connect it up to a jit.cellblock for a quick readout...

brendan mccloskey's icon

Nice one MIB - I should be well aware that both [if] and [sprintf] can be 'clunky', or at least improved upon using other objects/processes (I've been lurking here long enough!), so thanks for the heads-up, and for taking the time to chip away at my relative noob-osity....lessness.

Best
Brendan

ps "hope you don't mind".....the raison d'etre for posting/sharing is to seek improvements, so thanks again; the use of jit.cellblock blew me away!