pichiste@gmail.com

this is probably a really basic question but i had a hard time finding an answer. is there way to read an audio file to a specific location within a buffer~? i know this can be done with the record~ object, but if I have many audio files that I simply want to load consecutively into one buffer, is there a way to specify that start time of each? for instance, 001.wav begins at 0, 002.wav begins at 5000, etc.

thanks in advance, and my apologies if this is already posted elsewhere!

this is probably a really basic question but i had a hard time finding an answer. is there way to read an audio file to a specific location within a buffer~? i know this can be done with the record~ object, but if I have many audio files that I simply want to load consecutively into one buffer, is there a way to specify that start   time of each? for instance, 001.wav begins at 0, 002.wav begins at 5000, etc. 

reading-to-specific-location-in-buffer

Is there any reason you could not mix all of your component sounds into a larger composite sound file, and then load that file into a single buffer?

The only way I can think of is like this:

The only problem is that you need to initialize the main buffer with a fixed size. As soon as you resize it, the contents are lost.

So, Cycling, I'd like to make this an official feature request: the option to resize a buffer without clearing its contents.

Quote: pichiste@gmail.com wrote on Wed, 06 June 2007 22:14

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> this is probably a really basic question but i had a hard time finding an answer. is there way to read an audio file to a specific location within a buffer~? i know this can be done with the record~ object, but if I have many audio files that I simply want to load consecutively into one buffer, is there a way to specify that start time of each? for instance, 001.wav begins at 0, 002.wav begins at 5000, etc. 

> thanks in advance, and my apologies if this is already posted elsewhere!

Quote: pichiste@gmail.com wrote on Wed, 06 June 2007 22:14
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> hi list,
>
> this is probably a really basic question but i had a hard time finding an answer. is there way to read an audio file to a specific location within a buffer~? i know this can be done with the record~ object, but if I have many audio files that I simply want to load consecutively into one buffer, is there a way to specify that start   time of each? for instance, 001.wav begins at 0, 002.wav begins at 5000, etc. 
>
> thanks in advance, and my apologies if this is already posted elsewhere!
>
> best,
> daniel
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An 'append [filename]' message for the buffer object would also be nice... :)

> So, Cycling, I'd like to make this an official feature request: the

> option to resize a buffer without clearing its contents.

Yes, but it has to be a seperate command. For example "resize". For 

technical reasons the only way to do it is to allocate new memory for 

it, copy the old content and then free the old memory. This is expensive 

It needs a separate notification as well, I had bad crashes when 

accessing a buffer~ while croping with waveform~...

It could also just be an extra external, which does the copying in low 

priority or a seperate thread, and gives a notification. A bit like 

waveform~ without UI (just for croping) or an enhanced mxj~ buf.op but 

Mattijs Kneppers schrieb:
> So, Cycling, I'd like to make this an official feature request: the
> option to resize a buffer without clearing its contents.

Yes, but it has to be a seperate command. For example "resize". For 
technical reasons the only way to do it is to allocate new memory for 
it, copy the old content and then free the old memory. This is expensive 
and you would not want that always...
It needs a separate notification as well, I had bad crashes when 
accessing a buffer~ while croping with waveform~...
It could also just be an extra external, which does the copying in low 
priority or a seperate thread, and gives a notification. A bit like 
waveform~ without UI (just for croping) or an enhanced mxj~ buf.op but 
as C-external...

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