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turning files on and off


benree
Oct 18 2011 | 7:09 pm

At the moment if you turn one audio file on and then turn on the other they both play together. Anyone able to tweak attached patch so that;

when you turn one audio file on (which lights green LED) it turns the other audio file off (turning green LED off)?

cheers,

ben

Attachments:
  1. openclosefiles.maxpat

Luke Hall
Oct 18 2011 | 9:49 pm

You can always use [print] to see what the objects you are using are outputting, in this case it is either a 1 or 0. You can then use a combination of [select] and [trigger] to stop the other instance of [splay~] in each case. If you’re not familiar with these objects then looking at their uses in the helpfiles should make everything a little bit clearer.


Christopher Dobrian
Oct 19 2011 | 7:37 am

Since 1 is on and 0 is off, you can use a "== 0" object to produce the opposite (to turn one thing off when you turn the other on and vice versa). Here’s a simple example (on the left). But because a click will occur when you turn a sound off abruptly, you probably want to fade it out before you stop it, and fade the other sound in over the same amount of time, as in the example on the right.



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