What's the difference between the MemoryWriter's wavetable and the FeedbackLoop's wavetable?

Question

I tried writing into wavetable memory using the FeedbackLoopInput and reading out of it with a Sample and I get an error:

 

Is there a difference between the Feedback loop's wavetable and the one a MemoryWriter uses?

 

Answer 1

The difference is that FeedBackLoops are not meant to be read from a Sample, they are just a fixed length feedback. Use a MemoryWriter if you want to do anything else. Just guessing, but I think the FeedbackLoop classes are optimized for that simple task, while the MemoryWriter allows you to do more complex stuff.

Comments

Yes. I can imagine FeedbackLoops aren't meant to be read from a Sample but I'm curious why they can't be. They both seem to be use "wavetable" memory.

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They are in separate name spaces (that was intentional, so we would have flexibility for future variations in the way FeedbackLoop In/output is implemented — perhaps some that do not use wavetable memory).