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I have a scenario and am wondering what would be the best way to do it.. thanks for your help!

I have to record 80-100 short voice samples by different people.

the people should be hitting a button on a midi controller to trigger the recording and it should stop automatically.

these sounds have to be played back later as a collage.

I made a quick patch to test it using buffers (only 4 voices for now)

is this a good idea or is it better to write .wav files? or something else?

for the playback of the collage I´ve made a quick sketch as well, but it´s a bit awkward and not so easy to include variations... I´d like to have a density control that would give me 1 at the min. and 100 at the max. simultaneous voices voices..

hello,
I have a scenario and am wondering what would be the best way to do it.. thanks for your help!

I have to record 80-100 short voice samples by different people.
the people should be hitting a button on a midi controller to trigger the recording and it should stop automatically.

I made a quick patch to test it using buffers (only 4 voices for now)
is this a good idea or is it better to write .wav files? or something else?

for the playback of the collage I´ve made a quick sketch as well, but it´s a bit awkward and not so easy to include variations... I´d like to have a density control that would give me 1 at the min. and 100 at the max. simultaneous voices voices..      

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When you say 'the recording should stop automatically' is this after a specific period of time or after they have finished speaking?

perfect would be after they have finished speaking. but it will be a noisy environment so setting a volume threshold of recording will be a bit difficult...

this is still not very clear..
perfect would be after they have finished speaking. but it will be a noisy environment so setting a volume threshold of recording will be a bit difficult...


Just forget any kind of auto record stop,

and let people start and end recording themselves, using midi buttons or whatever.

With so many samples and probably as many ??? people which record them = impossible mission.

The rest of what You want to do will give You enough trouble anyway.

Just forget any kind of auto record stop,
and let people start and end recording themselves, using midi buttons or whatever.
With so many samples and probably as many ??? people which record them = impossible mission.
The rest of what You want to do will  give You enough  trouble anyway.


source audio, thanks! yes it´s what I´ve figured in the meantime.. I have the recording part done. When pressing down a key its recording, on depressing it stops. works very well.

for the other part of the task I have a multibuffer~ that is loading all the newly recorded soundfiles and I am working on the "collage" part...

in the beginning of the piece the recordings should come rather singular like raindrops, going gradually into a heavy rain to a thick drone.

I am working on it using groove~ objects.. still fishing in the dark

for the other part of the task I have a multibuffer~ that is loading all the newly recorded soundfiles and I am working on the "collage" part...
in the beginning of the piece the recordings should come rather singular like raindrops, going gradually into a heavy rain to a thick drone.
I am working on it using groove~ objects.. still fishing in the dark
any tipps appreciated!


I have to record 80+ short samples live and play them back later