Linear interpolation to a new value
The rampsmooth~ object is useful for smoothing MSP signals, a sort of lowpass filter, especially appropriate for smoothing out overly sudden changes in control signals. The left part of this patch demonstrates the fact that internally rampsmooth~ is just doing linear interpolation. Whenever the input signal changes, rampsmooth~ heads toward that value from wherever it currently is, using the specified number of samples (depending on whether it has to increase or decrease) to get there.