tab1~ reads in a file from disk in the NeXT soundfile format At startup, tab1~ reads in a file from disk in the NeXT soundfile format - a 16-bit fixed point soundfile with the standard 28 byte NeXT header. This is converted to floating point values between -1 and +1 and the header is ignored. 512 samples of the soundfile are read into the table (if the soundfile contains more they are ignored.) Slopes between successive points are calculated and stored in memory. (Thus tab1~ tables are stored in memory as value and slope pairs).

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