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I'm building a sound-design-patch that will play multiple parts of one buffer with pingpong-loop randomly to create a soundscape (saw this kind of patch in Reaktor once and it was really cool).

I'd like to have all the loops I have in my patch to show their position as playhead cursor in one waveform so that I would see multiple playhead-cursors pingponging within the waveform-object (this is what the Reaktor-patch did).

However, I tried outputting multiple bufferpositions into waveform-object and of course it didn't work, the cursor kept on hopping between the positions so fast that it couldn't be seen enough.

showing-multiple-playheads-in-waveform-object

Perhaps, use several waveform objects, "superimpose" them, and put them all in transparency with background color attribute.

To edit the 3rd loop : "3" -> select 1 2 3 4 5 6 -> "script bringtofront waveform3"-> [thispatcher]

Perhaps, use several waveform objects, "superimpose" them, and put them all in transparency with background color attribute. 

To edit the 3rd loop : "3" -> select 1 2 3 4 5 6 -> "script bringtofront waveform3"-> [thispatcher]


One solution you might consider would be adding a humble slider (or multislider) object whose background and borders have their alpha set to 0. and whose size is the same as the display area of the waveform~ object, then use an info~ object to derive the length of the loaded buffer and use that value to set the range of the slider/multislider. All you'd really need to do would be to make sure the slider/multislider was on the top layer.

how do you get one position showing in the waveform?

Showing multiple playheads in waveform-object