Deru

My idea is to create a percussion patch with samplers that could randomly load samples from my large sound effects library. Is there a way to have the patch randomly choose from a sound in a subfolder if I point it to the harddrive? In other words, max would have to search for all the sound files at the ends of all the subfolders.

can-max-search-through-subfolders

you can use ubumenu for file selection, just adjust it's recursion 

depth(maximum is 512), choose a root folder + filetypes and you 

should be fine. It might take a while(few seconds) to populate 

> My idea is to create a percussion patch with samplers that could 

> randomly load samples from my large sound effects library. Is there 

> a way to have the patch randomly choose from a sound in a subfolder 

> if I point it to the harddrive? In other words, max would have to 

> search for all the sound files at the ends of all the subfolders.

you can use ubumenu for file selection, just adjust it's recursion  
depth(maximum is 512), choose a root folder + filetypes and you  
should be fine. It might take a while(few seconds) to populate  
ubumenu when you close the inspector.

>
> My idea is to create a percussion patch with samplers that could  
> randomly load samples from my large sound effects library. Is there  
> a way to have the patch randomly choose from a sound in a subfolder  
> if I point it to the harddrive? In other words, max would have to  
> search for all the sound files at the ends of all the subfolders.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Ben


> My idea is to create a percussion patch with samplers that could

> randomly load samples from my large sound effects library. Is there a

> way to have the patch randomly choose from a sound in a subfolder if

> I point it to the harddrive? In other words, max would have to search

> for all the sound files at the ends of all the subfolders.

With ubumenu's prefix you can fill a ubumenu with all sounds of a 

folder. By defining the recursion depth in the inspector, you can tell 

it to search recursively through subfolders...

If you know the length of you ubumenu, you can setup a random to 

randomly choose sounds from the ubumenu...

ben schrieb:
> My idea is to create a percussion patch with samplers that could
> randomly load samples from my large sound effects library. Is there a
> way to have the patch randomly choose from a sound in a subfolder if
> I point it to the harddrive? In other words, max would have to search
> for all the sound files at the ends of all the subfolders.

With ubumenu's prefix you can fill a ubumenu with all sounds of a 
folder. By defining the recursion depth in the inspector, you can tell 
it to search recursively through subfolders...

If you know the length of you ubumenu, you can setup a random to 
randomly choose sounds from the ubumenu...

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OMG guys, that is perfect!
Works like a charm.

Can Max search through subfolders?