darklow

I have 3 buffers in my patch, attached to 3 waveforms. When I open the patch and use record~ to record audio into the buffers, it records properly because it's there when I click on the buffer~ itself. The waveform does not display the contents however.

The only way I can get it to work is to rename the buffer~ and the waveform every time i open the patch. Since i have to submit this in a month, obviously I cannot have it needing to be renamed every time its opened.

The patch is not finished yet but I need to know it works!

Any suggestions would be great, here is the patch

I have 3 buffers in my patch, attached to 3 waveforms. When I open the patch and use record~ to record audio into the buffers, it records properly because it's there when I click on the buffer~ itself. The waveform does not display the contents however. 

waveform-not-showing-buffer-contents

This has come up before, it may be an actual bug, but also could be order of instantiation: if your waveform~ objects are created before the buffer~ objects, they don't know which buffer~ to reference, and aren't notified when the correctly-named buffer~ is created. I could be wrong about that though, if anyone knows please advise...

I would simply use a loadbang and a delay of a few seconds, then it bangs the "set" message to the waveforms~ again. Does that work?

By the way, I really like the "drunksliders" module. Very useful!

Hey seejay cheers, yea the drunk sliders is handy, pain in the arse to make tho, lots of patch cabling! The set message doesn't work if i press it, i might just start again and make sure i create the waveforms after the buffers, il let u know if it works and il post something to the forum as a new topic to let pple know 2.

it worked initially, but not when i opened the patch again. I erased all the waveforms and just made them again and it worked perfectly, but when i saved the patch and reopened it they wont display anything! Where would i go to report a bug?

Before doing too much more of that patch cabling, check out the Max Toolbox, which does a lot of this stuff automagically :)

Before doing too much more of that patch cabling, check out the Max Toolbox, which does a lot of this stuff automagically  :)

Yes, I think this must be an order of instantiation thing. I just opened a copy of the patch that I posted recently that illustrates this problem, and to my surprise, the waveform displayed the buffer correctly - because hadn't realised that I already had a copy of that patch open.

Try opening your patch and loading a buffer, then open a second copy - does the waveform display OK now?

In my case, I wanted two waveforms to display the same buffer, but only one was working. I've now got it working by putting a second delayed 'set buffer' & '0 -1 0 -1' messages to select the whole buffer, between the two waveforms - simply delaying the first message wasn't enough, neither would it display without the message to select the whole buffer. See below:

 Try opening your patch and loading a buffer, then open a second copy - does the waveform display OK now?

In my case, I wanted two waveforms to display the same buffer, but only one was working. I've now got it working by putting a second delayed 'set buffer'  &  '0 -1 0 -1' messages to select the whole buffer, between the two waveforms - simply delaying the first message wasn't enough, neither would it display without the message to select the whole buffer. See below:

hey roger, yea opening 2 copies of the patch works, weird! I want to record into each buffer live rather than load external sound files in but there's probly a way i can use what u have there to do that, pain in the arse thi never had this problem before

it actually works i think, that o -1 0 -1 message makes everything display properly, have a new problem now tho! ive posted in the forum about it, i attached the outputs of the waveform to the inputs of the groove which should be ok but the patch makes max crash before it even opens!

waveform~ not showing buffer~ contents!