Grimm

I have a patch that is playing back many, many small soundbites (very rapid-fire), in a probabalistic way. They need to be played back at various speeds, and sometimes played backwards. I have up to four instances going at once.

I'm currently using a single very long audio file that contains all the little soundbites one after the other. I load that single file into a buffer, and play snippets from it using groove~. I make a long list of cues that basically have the start and stop times for each soundbite, and give the groove~ object cue numbers to play back that chunk of audio.

This works fine, but it's rather painstaking. Is there a smarter way to do it?

I have a patch that is playing back many, many small soundbites (very rapid-fire), in a probabalistic way.  They need to be played back at various speeds, and sometimes played backwards.  I have up to four instances going at once.

I'm currently using a single very long audio file that contains all the little soundbites one after the other.  I load that single file into a buffer, and play snippets from it using groove~.  I make a long list of cues that basically have the start and stop times for each soundbite, and give the groove~ object cue numbers to play back that chunk of audio.

This works fine, but it's rather painstaking.  Is there a smarter way to do it?


semi-randomized-playback-of-multiple-short-soundbites-is-this-the-best-way

> This works fine, but it's rather painstaking. Is there a smarter way

simply load as many buffer~s as you have sound snippets. If you want 

them all in a single file, you still need to have a list of cues, but 

why not have each snippet as separate file?

switching between buffer~s for a single groove~ is done with the set 

But you solution is actually smart as well... ;-)

Joseph Grimm schrieb:
> This works fine, but it's rather painstaking.  Is there a smarter way
> to do it?

simply load as many buffer~s as you have sound snippets. If you want 
them all in a single file, you still need to have a list of cues, but 
why not have each snippet as separate file?

switching between buffer~s for a single groove~ is done with the set 
message...

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…or use sflist~ to preload lots of individual soundfiles and use as many sfplay~ objects as you need.

Depending on your precise needs, your approach, Stefan's way, and my suggestion are all viable approaches.

Thanks guys. Peter, I'm trying your approach and i like it much better.

Thanks guys.  Peter, I'm trying your approach and i like it much better.


i often use umenu or ubumenu and us it to load sfplay objects but you

could use it to load buffers or what-have-you. This is very handy

because you can quickly drop in folders with all your sound files in

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Joseph Grimm wrote:

> Thanks guys. Peter, I'm trying your approach and i like it much better.

i often use umenu or ubumenu and us it to load sfplay objects but you
could use it to load buffers or what-have-you.  This is very handy
because you can quickly drop in folders with all your sound files in
them or try out different folders...

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Joseph Grimm  wrote:
>
> Thanks guys.  Peter, I'm trying your approach and i like it much better.
>


Quote: dodgeroo wrote on Thu, 05 June 2008 13:01

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> i often use umenu or ubumenu and us it to load sfplay objects but you

> could use it to load buffers or what-have-you. This is very handy

> because you can quickly drop in folders with all your sound files in

One issue though -- i would really like to use sfplay to play the sounds backwards. But I have to add a tag (just the number 1) to the preload command to do so. This would be fine, but the tag comes as an argument *after* the start and end times of the cue. I can't add the tag without first putting different values in for the start and end times -- which, since i'm dealing with hundreds of tiny files, is prohibitively time consuming.

Quote: dodgeroo wrote on Thu, 05 June 2008 13:01
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> i often use umenu or ubumenu and us it to load sfplay objects but you
> could use it to load buffers or what-have-you.  This is very handy
> because you can quickly drop in folders with all your sound files in
> them or try out different folders...
>

One issue though -- i would really like to use sfplay to play the sounds backwards.  But I have to add a tag (just the number 1) to the preload command to do so.  This would be fine, but the tag comes as an argument *after* the start and end times of the cue.  I can't add the tag without first putting different values in for the start and end times -- which, since i'm dealing with hundreds of tiny files, is prohibitively time consuming.


how is it exactly that i can use umenu to scroll through files? I looked at the umenu inspector and set a pathway for the folder i would like to load files from, but it doesn't seem to change the umenu's display (which is currently blank). Do I have to send it some kind of set message?

On Jun 8, 2008, at 6:56 PM, Kyle Kaplan wrote:

> Do I have to send it some kind of set message?

You have to set the auto-populate flag in the inspector.

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On Jun 8, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Chris Muir wrote:

> On Jun 8, 2008, at 6:56 PM, Kyle Kaplan wrote:

>> Do I have to send it some kind of set message?

> You have to set the auto-populate flag in the inspector.

> On Jun 8, 2008, at 6:56 PM, Kyle Kaplan wrote:
>
>> Do I have to send it some kind of set message?
>
> You have to set the auto-populate flag in the inspector.

So many different approaches in doing the same thing !!

here's a bit of what i've been using forever for this...

apropos of my sending this as an attachment, how do you send the mini 

max5 text patches to email? saving as text gets me code...?

On Jun 9, 2008, at 1:16 PM, jonathan segel wrote:

> here's a bit of what i've been using forever for 

apropos of my sending this as an attachment, how do you send the mini  
max5 text patches to email? saving as text gets me code...?
On Jun 9, 2008, at 1:16 PM, jonathan segel wrote:

> here's a bit of what i've been using forever for  
> this...

__________________________
jonathan segel
jsegel@magneticmotorworks.com
etc.


Quote: jonathan segel wrote on Mon, 09 June 2008 17:25

> apropos of my sending this as an attachment, how do you send the mini 

> max5 text patches to email? saving as text gets me code...?

> On Jun 9, 2008, at 1:16 PM, jonathan segel wrote:

> > here's a bit of what i've been using forever for 

Copy compressed, and then you can paste into the forum.

Quote: jonathan segel wrote on Mon, 09 June 2008 17:25
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> apropos of my sending this as an attachment, how do you send the mini  
> max5 text patches to email? saving as text gets me code...?
> On Jun 9, 2008, at 1:16 PM, jonathan segel wrote:
>
> > here's a bit of what i've been using forever for  
> > this...
>
> __________________________
> jonathan segel
> jsegel@magneticmotorworks.com
> etc.
>
>
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Copy compressed, and then you can paste into the forum.


> Quote: jonathan segel wrote on Mon, 09 June 2008 17:25

> ----------------------------------------------------

>> apropos of my sending this as an attachment, how do you send the mini

>> max5 text patches to email? saving as text gets me code...?

>> On Jun 9, 2008, at 1:16 PM, jonathan segel wrote:

>>> here's a bit of what i've been using forever for

> Copy compressed, and then you can paste into the forum.

>
> Quote: jonathan segel wrote on Mon, 09 June 2008 17:25
> ----------------------------------------------------
>> apropos of my sending this as an attachment, how do you send the mini
>> max5 text patches to email? saving as text gets me code...?
>> On Jun 9, 2008, at 1:16 PM, jonathan segel wrote:
>>
>>> here's a bit of what i've been using forever for
>>> this...
>>
>> __________________________
>> jonathan segel
>> jsegel@magneticmotorworks.com
>> etc.
>>
>>
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> Copy compressed, and then you can paste into the forum.
>
> --
> -DonK

semi-randomized playback of multiple short soundbites -- is this the best way?