Help with a max patch I'm working on for uni

KarlHowells's icon

I basically want to try and create a file upload source at the top of the patch that I have going so far, as I'm new to this and I'm struggling to get this part of it working.

I thought it was the 'read' message box & 'buffer~' object that made this possible, but as it's not working i'm not 100% sure now.

So I'd like to create that to the top of the patch, and if anyone could just check over any possible improvements to the patch I do have and a brief explanation as to why then that would extremely appreciated!

Very excited about what I can do in max/msp but just trying to understand the basics, and i'm in the middle of a module in uni where we've been using Max a fair bit.

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

Cheers!! :]

(edited by admin - use copy-compressed)

David Butler's icon

What do you mean by a 'file upload source'? Also please use the 'Copy Compressed' function available from the edit menu in Max when posting patches.

KarlHowells's icon

Just something that I could load an audio sample into? Want to be able to upload audio files so the sequencer, I'll then go on to add ways of editing the sounds later on once I've got it working.

and sure will do!

:]

brendan mccloskey's icon

Objects relevant to this question are: [dropfile], [umenu] and [prepend set]; I'm not at Max at the moment or else i'd send you a patch. You also probably want to update your file/folder preferences in Max (under Options I think)

Brendan

seejayjames's icon

yep, [umenu] with auto-populate checked is probably what you want. You can restrict the listing to audio files by adding the File Types: WAVE and AIFF.

KarlHowells's icon

Thank you both! :]

KarlHowells's icon

I've popped that in, or well I think I've grabbed the right things.

I'm confused to how this would connect to top of what I already had though.
When i click the top part with the Umenu and that, I don't have a way of hearing the sound that's loaded as well?

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

Sorry if i'm not explaining my problem too well!