[maxmsp] Re: spear sdif format ????

On 30 Jun 2007, at 19:20, sm wrote:

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> rest of message:
> the frequency column of the spear analysis is not ascending but  
> really mixed up.
> while this doesn't seem to be a problem for threefates and  
> sinusoids~ it gives me some trouble in retreiving amplitude values  
> for certain freqencies.
> hope somebody can help me!

don't think i can help you, but maybe explain a few things.
the first number in every row is the index number of the sinusoidal  
track, followed by freq, amp and phase.
as you observed the track numbers (ids) normally start off with low  
numbers. but as the sound evolves, new partials are added and others  
may disappear. the numbering of the partial tracks is left to the  
analysis software - some always use higher numbers for new tracks,  
some reuse track ids of partials that have disappeared again - but  
the numbers don't have any meaning beyond the information for the  
synthesis software, wether to create a new partial or to keep track  
of the same partial from the preceeding frame.
does that make any sense to you?

if you want something like ascending order of the frequency column,  
you would have to sort it yourself (which surely is possible, but  
employs some overhead naturally).

i don't know what software cnmat used for moanin.add.trc, but i might  
have read somewhere that it was tuned "by hand" afterwards.

volker.