kristine

I have this project running atm and I can't figure out how I'm going to be able to finish it without any help.

It's an artistic installation and all it does basically is, it records a voice on one end and plays back what someone has spoken in before on another end. Theres a seperation in space and a delay between the microphone and the speaker.

So you speak on one end, it gets recorded, and if you speak on the other end it plays back what you have said some minutes ago.

All I was able to finish right now is, to record the sound in seperate files and save them to my hd. terribly enough I have no clue on how to get a timedelay and this "database" like playback to work.

Please guys help me out here :) Theres a presentation coming in some weeks and I'm stuck :(

I have this project running atm and I can't figure out how I'm going to be able to finish it without any help.
It's an artistic installation and all it does basically is, it records a voice on one end and plays back what someone has spoken in before on another end. Theres a seperation in space and a delay between the microphone and the speaker.

All I was able to finish right now is, to record the sound in seperate files and save them to my hd. terribly enough I have no clue on how to get a timedelay and this "database" like playback to work.
Please guys help me out here :) Theres a presentation coming in some weeks and I'm stuck :(

help-guys-and-gurus-im-stuck

> All I was able to finish right now is, to record the sound in 

> seperate files and save them to my hd. terribly enough I have no 

> clue on how to get a timedelay and this "database" like playback to 

If I understand you correctly, and you're looking for a fixed delay 

If you know that a recording has finished ..

.... user presses a "button"; level on input mic drops below a 

certain (low) threshold for more than (say) 5 seconds; or some other 

then you only need to delay the bang from the recording finished 

event - the simplest way is to use [delay]

or you could use a metro(or train~)/counter combination and look for 

a particular value to be output from counter to start your file playing.

If you save your separate recording files with a name (either user or 

patch generated), then you only need to pass that name to [sfplay~ ] 

and bang it (send it [1] actually) when you want playback to start. 

You could place the file name in a [coll] until you need it.

>
> All I was able to finish right now is, to record the sound in  
> seperate files and save them to my hd. terribly enough I have no  
> clue on how to get a timedelay and this "database" like playback to  
> work.

If I understand you correctly, and you're looking for a fixed delay  
between input and output ...

If you know  that a recording has finished ..

.... user presses a "button"; level on input mic drops below a  
certain (low) threshold for more than (say) 5 seconds; or some other  
method

then you only need to delay the bang from the recording finished  
event - the simplest way is to use [delay]

or you could use a metro(or train~)/counter combination and look for  
a particular value to be output from counter to start your file playing.

If you save your separate recording files with a name (either user or  
patch generated), then you only need to pass that name to [sfplay~ ]  
and bang it  (send it [1] actually) when you want playback to start.  
You could place the file name in a [coll] until you need it.

Are you saying there are two microphones, one one each end?

1. The recorder records what ever is said at one end.

It stops when ever there is a pause or the maximum 

2. That recording is saved as a file and the name of that 

3. In the background you have a metro and counter that 

keeps track of the delay time. when the delay time is reached

it picks out the first file from the col, plays it and then

If there is a second mic, it would be cool if when the person

came around to the other side and spoke in the second mic,

it trigers a random recording from the list of recordings that 

are in the col. each recording would loop until the person 

stoped talking. When they started talking again, a new 

Subject: [maxmsp] help guys and gurus, I'm stuck :)

> I have this project running atm and I can't figure out how I'm 

> going to be able to finish it without any help.

> It's an artistic installation and all it does basically is, it 

> records a voice on one end and plays back what someone has spoken 

> in before on another end. Theres a seperation in space and a delay 

> between the microphone and the speaker.

> So you speak on one end, it gets recorded, and if you speak on the 

> other end it plays back what you have said some minutes ago.

> clue on how to get a timedelay and this "database" like playback 

> Please guys help me out here :) Theres a presentation coming in 

1. The recorder records what ever is said at one end.
It stops when ever there is a pause or the maximum 
record time is reached. 

2. That recording is saved as a file and the name of that 
file is stuffed in a col.

3. In the background you have a metro and counter that 
keeps track of the delay time. when the delay time is reached
it picks out the first file from the col, plays it and then
discards it. 

If there is a second mic, it would be cool if when the person
came around to the other side and spoke in the second mic,
it trigers a random recording from the list of recordings that 
are in the col. each recording would loop until the person 
stoped talking. When they started talking again, a new 
file would play. 

----- Original Message -----
From: kristi 
Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:32 am
Subject: [maxmsp] help guys and gurus, I'm stuck :)

>
> Hi guys,
>
> I have this project running atm and I can't figure out how I'm 
> going to be able to finish it without any help.
> It's an artistic installation and all it does basically is, it 
> records a voice on one end and plays back what someone has spoken 
> in before on another end. Theres a seperation in space and a delay 
> between the microphone and the speaker.
>
> So you speak on one end, it gets recorded, and if you speak on the 
> other end it plays back what you have said some minutes ago.
>
> All I was able to finish right now is, to record the sound in 
> seperate files and save them to my hd. terribly enough I have no 
> clue on how to get a timedelay and this "database" like playback 
> to work.
> Please guys help me out here :) Theres a presentation coming in 
> some weeks and I'm stuck :(
>
> Kristine
>


Yay, thanks so much david, I'm going to try that right now!

Hopefully I wont mess up, because I'm relatively new to max/msp.

Yay, thanks so much david, I'm going to try that right now!
Hopefully I wont mess up, because I'm relatively new to max/msp.

> Yay, thanks so much david, I'm going to try that right now!

> Hopefully I wont mess up, because I'm relatively new to max/msp.

That's one of the things that's cool about max/msp - you can't mess 

up! (Well, at least you can't break anything. Except maybe your 

Just make sure you have the basic concepts down, and use the 

resources of manual and help files. That way you'll learn quicker!

>
> Yay, thanks so much david, I'm going to try that right now!
> Hopefully I wont mess up, because I'm relatively new to max/msp.
>

That's one of the things that's cool about max/msp - you can't mess  
up! (Well, at least you can't break anything. Except maybe your  
speakers. :-)  )
Just make sure you have the basic concepts down, and use the  
resources of manual and help files. That way you'll learn quicker!
Enjoy!

> So you speak on one end, it gets recorded, and if you speak on the

> All I was able to finish right now is, to record the sound in

> seperate files and save them to my hd. terribly enough I have no clue

> on how to get a timedelay and this "database" like playback to work.

For this setup I would definitely not use a delay, because any 

assumption about the time a visitor would need to get from A to B will 

be wrong! But if you'd trigger it with either a sound level from a 

second mic at the other end or have some sort of light barrier or 

footswitch to trigger it, it would be more controllable...

Recording to sound files is fine, but you could also record into 

buffer~s... To trigger them should be a snap if you had a look at the 

If you want to stick to the delay idea use tapin~/tapout~, there you 

could change the time on the fly, jumping back and forth in time...

kristi wrote:
> So you speak on one end, it gets recorded, and if you speak on the
> other end it plays back what you have said some minutes ago.
>
> All I was able to finish right now is, to record the sound in
> seperate files and save them to my hd. terribly enough I have no clue
> on how to get a timedelay and this "database" like playback to work. 

For this setup I would definitely not use a delay, because any 
assumption about the time a visitor would need to get from A to B will 
be wrong! But if you'd trigger it with either a sound level from a 
second mic at the other end or have some sort of light barrier or 
footswitch to trigger it, it would be more controllable...
Recording to sound files is fine, but you could also record into 
buffer~s... To trigger them should be a snap if you had a look at the 
tutorials.
If you want to stick to the delay idea use tapin~/tapout~, there you 
could change the time on the fly, jumping back and forth in time...

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