helenoir

I've looked through previous threads to no avail.

I'm trying to create a patch which should play all my audio files randomly, I have about 18 files in total and some are about 6 seconds and some are 2 mins.

and I'm wondering where I've gone wrong as the buffer without the random will play my samples, but I cannot get the files to play through random. I've played around with sfplay~ but it didn't really work unless I did it wrong. I am using the 4.6 version.If anyone has any answers I would be very grateful! Thanks

I'm trying to create a patch which should play all my audio files randomly, I have about 18 files in total and some are about 6 seconds and some are 2 mins. 

and I'm wondering where I've gone wrong as the buffer without the random will play my samples, but I cannot get the files to play through random. I've played around with sfplay~ but it didn't really work unless I did it wrong. I am using the 4.6 version.If anyone has any answers I would be very grateful! Thanks


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The problem could be that the message boxes connected up after the prepends don't pass their values through to the buffers to load the files, you would have to click them to load.

So run the prepend (without 'set') straight through into the buffer, and consider using the 'replace' message into buffer instead of the 'read' message (this will resize the buffer to the size of the new file).

Also, if you use message's right inlet you need no 'set' message, which is very convenient!

Thanks for your response, however, I took away the set from the prepend and max came up with the error that it didn't understand replace. Also it stopped the files from changing randomly.

Only the first buffer has the set removed

You need to remove the message box between the prepend and the buffer~... setting a message box doesn't cause output as well. If you connect the prepend box directly to the buffer it should work.

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