Thanks Nicolas, thats what i was looking for. I got it working as i want it, however i have one problem im not sure if i should worry about... Its quite hard to explain. Hope you can follow. I attached the updated patch.

At first glance you can see the filepath in the text message reads (Macintosh:/Users/m0dit/Desktop/TestDRUM_library/bank2) I than begin at the top and choose the sample-library directory, in this case Bank1. (or vice-versa)

As soon as i click Open, the filepath text message changes as it should to (Macintosh:/Users/m0dit/Desktop/TestDRUM_library/bank1) However, looking at the Max Event Window it still prints (Macintosh:/Users/m0dit/Desktop/TestDRUM_library/bank2) until i press the "button" object or the filepath text message. So it looks like it needs 2 clicks to send the correct info. Is there somethings wrong with my code?

I tried to add 2 "button" objects one after another to send 2 bangs but this does not make any difference... Why is it doing this? Should i worry about it?

Thanks once again!

i think you've just got too many cables going to the wrong places-- try this:

Once again thank you Nicolas. This way is definitely easier/ much cleaner. Wish i could have figured it out my self!

I have a final question in regard to playing the files. I cant get it to find the files.... I've looked at the help/reference of "umenu" and it shows that it needs a "message" with a prefix & path.

How can i Retrieve the path after its been passed through the "patcher" (ex. prefix Macintosh:/Users/m0dit/Desktop/TestDRUM_library/bank2/SNARE) to put into a message?

I tried it maybe 100 times, it cant find the file. It doesn't have a path, just the file name. When i click on a menu item the Max Event window prints: sfplay~ can't find file WHATEVER.wav Clicking on the Play button of the playbar prints: sfplay~ no open file

Hi,

I tried the latest patch you pasted. It does work, but only partly. :( Once the menu is populated the file wont play until i press on the menu and select an item, this is not the big problem however….

The big problem is that once i add a second menu with a second patcher (i change the inside of the patcher) i get an error like this: sfplay~ cant find file Macintosh:/Users/m0dit/Desktop/TestDRUM_library/bank2/ KICK/Sidestick Deez.wav

But "Sidestick Deez.wav" is not in the KICK directory. Its a SNARE directory file….. So the path is working ok. But for some reason its looking for the first menu files. I really dont understand it. I uploaded the patch.

Hi,

The KICK and SNARE problem that i described (i don't think you understood exactly what i was saying) BUT somehow miraculously, i re-opened Max + the patch and it worked. I did not edit anything. Not sure what happened there. And the [trigger] works! Thank you!

However, now gotten to this point a new problem/query has come up. I know previously i said that this was going to be it, but i need your help again! I'm almost embarrassed to ask. You've helped me so much. :)

Ok. ultimately i want to play the KICK, SNARE, HAT etc on a midi keyboard. (each on their own keys) I've set up midi. It works. It plays which ever sample i select. One at a time. And the sample spans out on 127 keys.

What i cant figure out is…….. How do i assign a note position (ex. C3 - integer 60) JUST for the SNARE. Then assign a different note(ex. D3) just for the HIHAT patcher/menu.

I was thinking to use the [noteout] object and specify channel, velocity and Pitch BUT [noteout] does not have a Output data slot. Also i tried taking a [number] object with the value 60 and plugging it in before the menu. But of-course it does not work. It doesn't understand midi, i don't think. So, im stuck. I searched everywhere!, i cant find anything specifically about this. Could you shed some light please?

Hi,

Before i only really searched through google, i didnt use this sites search. Theres definitely alot more results on here.

I've checked out the objects. [groove~] and [wave~] are really buffer-based so there not much of use to me, i dont think (have i missed something?) [poly~] is a good and quite confusing object! But I dont really think its necessary in this case....

I found a couple sampler threads and they use the [route] object. This seems a good way to go. I've incorporated [route], it works in terms of what midi key plays the sample. But all the threads i've found use a buffer and open 1 file at a time. They dont use [umenu]. When i link [route] to a [umenu] every time i press the midi key it plays the next sample (it goes through ALL of the samples without me selecting). I've checked the help/ref files and it doesn't mention anything about this. Is there another object to help? I dont really understand why its doing this....

Thanks!

Send the output bangs from [route] or [select] (you can use either in this case) into message boxes which contain the corresponding [umenu] file choices, numbered starting at 0. example:

[notein] --> [select 60] --> message box with "2" --> umenu

this will make midi note Middle C select the *third* entry in the umenu (counting 0, 1, 2)