Specific words typed triggering samples
Hi!
I am developing this artistic project - it is gonna be a performance of me visibly typing a poem into MAX Msp, computer reacting on specific words and those words trigger samples - therefore the music composes itself with the poem progressing.
I wanted to ask if anyone possibly had any prior experience with this kind of a work?
I guess I have to create lists of samples and list of words - and the thing is - how to connect them. If a word typed - sends a number and the number is connected to the sample, and it triggers it...that is how I imagine it. ? But practically it is hard for me to know which objects would be the simplest way how to achieve this...
Thank you very much in advance!!!!!!
Well, you could start with [textedit] to input the text and [sel] for string matching, [umenu] and [sfplay~] or [playlist~] to play a sound. When you know your maximum polyphony (how many overlapping samples) then you can refine, use several sound file players / buffers with other playback objects, etc.
Here's a very simple example. It matches the last typed word and looks for the related sample in a dict and plays it with maximum 4 voices polyphony.
!! Hi, thank you very much.. i updated my dictionary, it reacts on the words that i write and displays bang everytime it spots the word i filled in the dic., so this works!! im very grateful. but - it does not play anything and i am not sure where it went wrong.. the samples are changing as i write, but they do not really play..do i need to load them somewhere - add some message to the sfplay object? i see there are open messages, it should! work! i do not know.
Is audio switched on (the big button with the speaker symbol)?
Are your samples in the search path (otherwise you have to specify the full path, not only the file name)?
You see errors in the Max console?
audio is switched on, yes! the path could be the problem, i will look into that, thank u very much..
yes!! it cannot find it, so i will put the full path. THANK U!