Cycling 74 » Topic: Best way to play back a large amount of simultaneous audio files? http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/best-way-to-play-back-a-large-amount-of-simultaneous-audio-files/feed Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:03:15 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/best-way-to-play-back-a-large-amount-of-simultaneous-audio-files/#post-55226 <![CDATA[Best way to play back a large amount of simultaneous audio files?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/best-way-to-play-back-a-large-amount-of-simultaneous-audio-files/#post-55226 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:13:00 +0000 Rodrigo I’m working on a piece that will have about 80-100 audio files (6min, mono, 44.1/16) playing back at the same time.
The patch itself will, on loading, select a new set of samples (there would be 80-100 folders, each with 5-10 files).

That’s a lot of audio playing back at the same time.

What would be the best, most efficient, way to play back that kind of audio? Loading that much audio into a buffer might not be possible, and same goes for reading that many separate tracks off the HD.

The main machine it would be running on is a 13″ macbookpro with 4gb of ram and the stock 5400rpm drive.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/best-way-to-play-back-a-large-amount-of-simultaneous-audio-files/#post-198765 <![CDATA[Re: Best way to play back a large amount of simultaneous audio files?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/best-way-to-play-back-a-large-amount-of-simultaneous-audio-files/#post-198765 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:25:08 +0000 Nikolas Konstantakopoulos you could make an audio mixdown with all the tracks using a DAW, like Logic? keeping the tracks spatialization but having a few tracks in the end!

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/best-way-to-play-back-a-large-amount-of-simultaneous-audio-files/#post-198766 <![CDATA[Re: Best way to play back a large amount of simultaneous audio files?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/best-way-to-play-back-a-large-amount-of-simultaneous-audio-files/#post-198766 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:25:58 +0000 saulpimpson Are each of the files 6 min long? If so, that might be tough to do. What is the combined file size of all the audio files you want to use?

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