alberto-bernal

I'm trying to do some work with many layers of soundfiles -that means, many instances of sfplay~s- and I see that max stops reading by around 25 layers. Is this a "natural" limit of the system or is there a work-around to allow the reading of more layers (more soundfiles)? The files are stereo-files of around 1 minute each one; for it, I would discard to load them as buffers in ram...

Hello,
  I'm trying to do some work with many layers of soundfiles -that means, many instances of sfplay~s- and I see that max stops reading by around 25 layers. Is this a "natural" limit of the system or is there a work-around to allow the reading of more layers (more soundfiles)? The files are stereo-files of around 1 minute each one; for it, I would discard to load them as buffers in ram...
  Thanks in advance,
Alberto Bernal


many-layers-of-soundfiles

> Hello, I'm trying to do some work with many layers of soundfiles

> -that means, many instances of sfplay~s- and I see that max stops

> reading by around 25 layers. Is this a "natural" limit of the system

> or is there a work-around to allow the reading of more layers (more

> soundfiles)? The files are stereo-files of around 1 minute each one;

> for it, I would discard to load them as buffers in ram... Thanks in

Two ways to deal with the problem. 25 Files is already something, so it 

might be that your system (HD etc.) is bit too slow.

First thing to try is to increase the buffersize of sfplay~ (there is a 

"more features" subpatcher in the help file to explain)

Second, if each file is only 1 min, this would account to about 500 MB 

of ram (in ram you have to account for 32-bits) On a reasonable computer 

you should have this amount of free ram, to play all with buffer~s.

alberto-bernal schrieb:
> Hello, I'm trying to do some work with many layers of soundfiles
> -that means, many instances of sfplay~s- and I see that max stops
> reading by around 25 layers. Is this a "natural" limit of the system
> or is there a work-around to allow the reading of more layers (more
> soundfiles)? The files are stereo-files of around 1 minute each one;
> for it, I would discard to load them as buffers in ram... Thanks in
> advance, Alberto Bernal 

Two ways to deal with the problem. 25 Files is already something, so it 
might be that your system (HD etc.) is bit too slow.

First thing to try is to increase the buffersize of sfplay~ (there is a 
"more features" subpatcher in the help file to explain)

Second, if each file is only 1 min, this would account to about 500 MB 
of ram (in ram you have to account for 32-bits) On a reasonable computer 
you should have this amount of free ram, to play all with buffer~s.

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