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is there a way to get a waveform display from a file without loading the

I'm building a perform.patch that uses a crossfading file looper for samples

in the 30-300 second range, and it would helpful to have a display so taht

you can 'trim silence', since a lot of the files have a long reverb tail

that i don't want to remove from the original. however, since i want to

have many of these files playing at once it's best to use HD streaming

is there a way to get a waveform display from a file without loading the
file into a buffer~?

I'm building a perform.patch that uses a crossfading file looper for samples
in the 30-300 second range, and it would helpful to have a display so taht
you can 'trim silence', since a lot of the files have a long reverb tail
that i don't want to remove from the original.  however, since i want to
have many of these files playing at once it's best to use HD streaming
rather than buffers.

streaming-waveform-display

i would guess that if you want to visualise a whole file with sample accuracy, you are essentially holding that file in RAM anyway, so it would be buffered somewhere . it may as well be in a buffer~ object. not sure how programs like logic or ableton do it from disk. maybe they load up only the part you can see to RAM or its at reduced resolution...

> not sure how programs like logic or ableton do it from disk. maybe

> they load up only the part you can see or its at reduced

All disk based sample editors I know create a seperate overview file 

which has a reduced resolution. In the moment you zoom in, they would 

get the real data from disk, you can't display more than the number of 

pixels of your screen in sample accuracy and thats not much...

There was an example of how to create an overview and load it into a 

buffer quite a while ago, the archives might still contain it...

As I remeber it was just playing the file with a 50-times speed with 

sfplay, and record it into a buffer~, which was displayed with waveform~...

bin ray wrote:
> not sure how programs like logic or ableton do it from disk. maybe
> they load up only the part you can see or its at reduced
> resolution... 

All disk based sample editors I know create a seperate overview file 
which has a reduced resolution. In the moment you zoom in, they would 
get the real data from disk, you can't display more than the number of 
pixels of your screen in sample accuracy and thats not much...

There was an example of how to create an overview and load it into a 
buffer quite a while ago, the archives might still contain it...

As I remeber it was just playing the file with a 50-times speed with 
sfplay, and record it into a buffer~, which was displayed with waveform~...

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> There was an example of how to create an overview and load it into 

> a buffer quite a while ago, the archives might still contain it...

I have 2 patches from the list which might be relevant - I'll post 

one in this mail, and follow up with the other. I'm afraid I can't 

attribute the creators of these patches as I didn't keep a note of them

>
> There was an example of how to create an overview and load it into  
> a buffer quite a while ago, the archives might still contain it...

I have 2 patches from the list which might be relevant - I'll post  
one in this mail, and follow up with the other. I'm afraid I can't  
attribute the creators of these patches as I didn't keep a note of them

I was reffering to that one, and the author is in it...

David Stevens wrote:
> and here's the second one.

streaming waveform display