Event Slew
Event Slew/Smoother macro
DESCRIPTION
This is contains two different event based macros that emulates the audio Slew module. It allows for comparison of CPU usage of these macros and the audio slew module. Turn off the Event Watcher, select the type of slew, play with the knob and record CPU usage. I'd appreciate people posting their CPU data in the comments, esp. Mac users.
One event module uses a speed limited Iteration module. It is based on Ernst Meyer's Smoother 2 but has several modifications to make it have characteristics closer to the audio Slew:
-Slewing is quantized to a step size set at input St, to ensure that it finishes precisely on targets that are multiples of St, say 0 or 1, without rounding errors, so you can do equality tests on the output.
-The in value is passed to out on startup
-If an event is repeated at in (say a 0 after the value is already 0), the event will be passed to the output, once.
The other event based macro does not use a speed limited iterator, but events fired at the control rate. As with above, it ends precisely at the target value, fires on start and repeats.
Here is my CPU data on a Pentium IV 2.4 GHz:
No Iterator, slewing: 1.7%, rest .8%
Iterator , slewing: 1.2%, rest .9%
Audio , slewing: 1.2%, rest 1.1%
This suggests to me that it might be hard to do slewing more efficiently than the audio slew, but you save CPU when resting when using event modules--and the speed limited iterator is better than a structure without it, unless my coding is just bad.
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