It talks about max for live too.
A nice introduction about max msp & jitter would be this cycling74 page...
Basically, max is the graphical and mathematical environement, msp adds the audio part with all things abot signal processing and jitter adds the video and pictures part.
trying to find some architecture rules
I'm trying here to find some rules in order to make the architecture of patches better.
They are a little bit empiric, and I don't write here they HAVE to be applied.
Some people helped me about that in some posts on ableton or cycling74 forums, I cannot quote all of them : Peter Castine, vanille bechamel, Stefan Tiedje, Bouke Groenescheij
- prefer to use patch cord rather than send/receive, if possible...
- prefer to use a single object rather than a group of objects
- prefer non-GUI objects to GUI objects (if you don't need it!)
- prefer a dedicated object for a specific task rather than a more general purpose object (scale or zmap or lp.scampf rather than expr; similarly mtof rather than expr)
- use the coll for static data which is queried more than once (thanks for more explicit words, Bouke!)
benchmarking objects & several empiric rules in order to choose the right architecture
cpuclock can be used for benchmarking.
I'm trying to find several
Here, I wanted to compare the parsing of a 3 units list by 2 route objects, and a unpack object.
This patch can be modified as you want.
It sends the sub-tree tested 200 times (the uzi makes it) and gives a mean.
Here, we can see the result is almost the same (don't forget the operation is made 200 times! ... so the unpack wins with 0.3 / 200 s ...)
Note: I did the same thing with only 2 elements in the list, route seems better.
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