Whitney Bandel

I am trying to use an electret microphone and an arduino to trigger audio playback. What I have set up right now is that the serial read is going into an if statement, where if the number is greater than half of the total possible value, it equals 1, otherwise it equals 0. Then that value is being sent to a trigger, which then attaches to the input of sfplay~ 2. What is happening is the signal is coming in so often that it continually restarts itself. What is the best possible way to send the data to sfplay~ 2 so that it can finish playing the whole sound file? It only needs to be a few seconds.

I'm rather new to Max MSP, I'm used to using Procesing, where in a case like this I've used a setup where the playback could not interrupt itself. Is there any way to do something like that, or add a delay? I've tried doing metros, delays, pipes, tempos, etc. But I don't seem to know which to use, how to use it, or where the best place would be to put it.

I would appreciate any advice, input, or tutorials anyone has.

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Also I'd like to add, I've gotten this to work previously using a Wii remote push button. In that case I'm wondering if its more of a matter of the Wii button only sends a signal when it changes states, rather than continuously like my current patch is doing. If that's the case, is there a way to mimic that action so it only sends a signal when it changes states? I tried using a onebang, but I couldn't get that to work either.

I only glanced at your patch, but have you tried [> 511] --> [togedge] - it works like a combination of [peak] or [maximum] and [onebang], it gives a single bang for zero to one transitions.

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I only glanced at your patch, but have you tried [> 511]  --> [togedge] - it works like a combination of [peak] or [maximum] and [onebang], it gives a single bang for zero to one transitions.

Thanks for the advice. I just ran into my professor and he suggested togedge or change. I had tried togedge, but to be honest couldn't figure it out. He helped me set it up to use change though, and it's working the way I want. The audio files are a bit long, so now I"ll just need to edit them shorter so it sounds more like a note playing.

Help adding delay for signal from serial read to trigger audio file playback