enki

I'm trying (and have had some success) to trigger events from a folder containing music. My patch works but seems really inelegant.

I feel I'm missing some simple thing about getting music to play sequentially from a folder.

Any suggestions besides max 7? I have a show soonish and migrating everything is not viable soonish.

I feel I'm missing some simple thing about getting music to play sequentially from a folder. 

sequential-triggering-of-events-from-music-folder

What do you mean when you say sequentially from the folder? Do you mean in the order of the files?

If your clip isn't playing when you press play that is probably because Max isn't able to locate the file. Try [buffer~] perhaps. Or you can add the folder where your music files are stored as a path in preferences in Max.

That's all I can really say with my understanding of what you're trying to do.

I've built a patch that "Should" play all the songs in a folder sequentially.

If you open the attached patch you'll see a menu drop down.

Click on the first item 'Anton.aif'. This is the trigger to initiate the play process.

What should happen is that the Anton file should play all the way through, then Cello-f2 (the next file)

What tends to happen is that sometimes anton plays then whereupon the last file "Vibes" is played, which is BAD because it is skipping the intermediate files. (cello, cherokee, etc)

I need help having it play each file one at a time. Anton then cello then cherokee etc.

I've built a patch that "Should" play all the songs in a folder sequentially.
If you open the attached patch you'll see a menu drop down. 

I need help having it play each file one at a time. Anton then cello then cherokee etc.


sequential triggering of events from music folder