rinhaak

I saw someone else post this exact question four months ago, but saw no answer. So I'm posting the question anew in hopes that someone can solve it:

I have a simple sfplay~ patch. All I want is to playback a sound file. However, everything (even the examples from the example patches) is playing back about 4x faster than it should. Again, this isn't only in my patch but also in all of the examples given. The original files are just fine; I'm assuming something must be screwed up internally, but I can't figure out what.

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sfplay-playing-back-too-fast

Your patch worked fine for me (granted, I didn't have the audio file it loads, but I used one of my own). Honestly, I don't know what setting would cause the symptoms you describe, but hopefully this will narrow things down for you.

MaxMSP should automatically detect and impose your chosen sample rate (44.1k, 96k etc) set in your hardware control panel. If you have changed the Audio Settings within either Max or your soundcard control panel, then the conflict could cause pitch error. For example, if the files SR is 44.1k and you are playing back at 22050 you'll get raised pitch (?).

This is assuming that your aren't sending any playback speed messages to the [sfplay] objects (plugging a float number box into it).

Hi
MaxMSP should automatically detect and impose your chosen sample rate (44.1k, 96k etc) set in your hardware control panel. If you have changed the Audio Settings within either Max or your soundcard control panel, then the conflict could cause pitch error. For example, if the files SR is 44.1k and you are playing back at 22050 you'll get raised pitch (?).

sfplay~ playing back too fast