As part of a larger patch, I'm attempting to play particular audio files on cue. My first instinct was to use sfplay~ preload the audio files (e.g. "preload 2 audio1.aif") and then just forward the current cue number to sfplay~. This seemed to work fine when only preloading one file, but now the patch that preloads multiple audio files crashes Max (6.1.8) upon loading. Given that the only difference between patches that crash and patches that don't is the preloading with sfplay~, I'm presuming that's the culprit. So, what is a better way to handle this situation, one that does not result in Max crashing?

Cueing audio files