James Kogane

Hi have some trouble figuring out how to clear the previous recording from the buffer when I'm done recording new material into the mic and to have the buffer adjust to whatever length of recording I made

mclivegrain.maxpat

Hi have some trouble figuring out how to clear the previous recording from the buffer when I'm done recording new material into the mic and 

recording-to-buffer-1

set buffer size to max recording time before new take

To clear the buffer use message
clearlow
but that is not really needed
if you rewrite the buffer.
measure recording time, and
on record end send message
crop $1 to buffer
$1 being rec time in ms.
set buffer size to  max recording time before new take

recording to buffer