ModSquad like Looper

Sub Avian Flow's icon

I'm trying to do my own version of the modsquad looper included with Max 5. I'm stuck at the beginning and I can't figure out why my method of creating a step buffer sounds so bad. All I get is clicks. Any suggestions would be appreciated. I already studied the correct way to do this. I just want to know why my method doesn't work (I hope its not too obvious). Thanks in advance.

Tim Lloyd's icon

Have a look at the peeker~ subpatch in modsquad again.

What you need to do is turn each step in the steps buffer~ into a small ramp, so that each step reads through a portion of wave from one point to another. Making each separate step a ramp is effectively reordering the 0 1o 1 ramp of phasor, which plays back corresponding segments of the buf buffer.

At the moment, your steps buffer contains flat segments, which means that wave is reading just a tiny point of each step, rather than each step triggering playback of a full segment of the buf buffer~. Not sure if that explanation makes sense, sorry if not!

Just have another look in the peeker subpatch in modsquad.

Sub Avian Flow's icon

Thank you. That definately explains the short sample clicks. Without a ramp I'm essentially just playing short fragments of a sample.