[how to] va-advanced buffer techniques

    Tiago Morgado
    Dec 07 2011 | 2:44 am
    hello everyone.. hope you are all having a great night programming in MaxMSP: given a list like the following, in which I have pointers to a buffer stored with the help of a snapshot~ object and a zl stream 2, to a buffer~/record~, how do I create like messages to record the files from the buffer pointers into a wav or aiff name by giving it a name like sampname_$1_$2, in which the $1 and $2 symbols would be iterated points in a one bi-dimensional vector, considering $1 as a number that already exists in a analysis system that comes from 0 to 127, and $2 as an iterated point in a list of 10 values for an instance. also, how do I iterate and save the list 2nd list (127 values ranging from 1 to 10) with the patch? and also how to rewrite files after the first iteration cycle (imagine it as [127][10])? if possible, I would prefer not to do this with mxj~. also, how to instantly load the mentioned files into a polybuffer~, immediately after recording them. thanks in advance tiago
    0, 0 0.; 1, 0. 0.; 2, 0. 10332.880859; 3, 10332.880859 15325.169922; 4, 15325.169922 20317.460938; 5, 20317.460938 24729.251953; 6, 24729.251953 36107.03125;
    • seejayjames
      Dec 07 2011 | 4:04 am
      [sprintf] will deal with inserting numbers into a symbol, so that there are no spaces. if you use a message box with $1 $2 it adds spaces to make a list. so:
      sprintf sampname_%u_%u
      where %u = "unsigned int", there are many others, like %s for symbol. check sprintf helpfile. if you want floats (probably not in the name), use the appropriate % symbol. sprintf is also indispensable for formatting filepaths with spaces etc...
      ...IMO there should be a "tips and tricks" area of the Forum with most frequently asked things, and filepaths/sprintf mangling of symbols should be on there. Very necessary and not that intuitive at first, and many questions about it crop up.
    • Tiago Morgado
      Dec 07 2011 | 4:27 am
      I know this thing of sprintf, and I actually do very complex stuff with lists, thanks, you didn't get the quesiton
    • Tiago Morgado
      Dec 07 2011 | 4:31 am
    • Tiago Morgado
      Dec 07 2011 | 4:52 am
      in relation to the list thing, it's here, solved, so now I just need to know how to record the selected portion of the buffer into the audiofile thru the described method and to immediately load the file into a polybuffer~ also I need to get a way of overwriting the files after an iteration cycle (1-10).. thanks
    • Tiago Morgado
      Dec 07 2011 | 5:41 am
      I kept elaborating my solution to the list solution and right now i've got this.. it's just that I am stuck in some point of the data flow and I am not being able to debug this.. so it's not iterating, and I am not being able of making a prepend store of a list to the coll index.. help is appreciated, aswell relation to he issue previously described of "in relation to the list thing, it's here, solved, so now I just need to know how to record the selected portion of the buffer into the audiofile thru the described method and to immediately load the file into a polybuffer~ also I need to get a way of overwriting the files after an iteration cycle (1-10).. thanks"