Waveform and buffer problem

cebec's icon

This is driving me crazy. Please see the attached patch. I load a sample into the buffer but the waveform object only displays roughly half of it, or says the length is half the total (which you can see by the float object connected to info) yet the sample plays back in its entirety. As soon as you click on the waveform object, the playback is truncated to what the waveform is displaying.
Why isn't waveform displaying the entire buffer? I have tried to figure this out and am getting nowhere.
Thanks,
Matt

DF's icon

just loaded up your patch, seems to work fine for me.
I always use the replace message for buffer loading as it re-sizes the buffer to match the loaded file, read won't do this.
apologies if you've already tried this/know this..
Tim

jvkr's icon

Your patch is basically the waveform help file. If this patch would not be running correctly, I doubt the developers at c74 would have provided as a help file in the first place. Most likely there's something else going on (then that the patch aint workin'). What that is, is easier to pinpoint when you provide some more info. What platform/system are you running, what version of max, which type of soundfile it is you try to load, how many channels, what duration... Try also simplifying the patch and, reading the documentation is a must.

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johan

cebec's icon

I used the help patch as an example. It's as stripped down as it needs to be. I just loaded the waveform help in 4.6 and it works fine, i.e., as it should.
This problem is occurring on my Windows XP SP2a and Max OS X 10.5 Intel machine with Max 5.02. I have tried it with the waveform help and my other patches that use the waveform object. I'm really baffled why it works for you two and in 4.6 but not for me in 5.
And yes, I am using replace and not read.

cebec's icon

It's occurring with a variety of samples at different bit rates and sample rates. The only sample that works (of the few I have to test with, here) is a 16 bit / 44.1 kHz one. However, like I said, all of the samples work in 4.6.

cebec's icon

Try this... It's 16 bit / 16 kHz.

David Zicarelli's icon

I tried your file on the Mac and waveform~ in Max 5 displays 826.75 ms of it, same as 4.6. Do you think you can attach a screen capture of what you are seeing on Windows?

David Z.

cebec's icon

Thanks. Here's a screen cap.

David Zicarelli's icon

Thanks for the screen shot. As far as I can tell, this is a problem with the waveform~ object in the help file. If you delete that object and create an entirely new one, it doesn't seem to have this problem. I'll try to figure out why and fix it soon.

David Z.

David Zicarelli's icon

Actually, a better way of expressing the problem is that waveform~ is not updating properly when the buffer~ sample rate changes. Until this is fixed, a workaround would be to send the waveform a name message with some other buffer and then send it another name message to point to the buffer whose sample rate has changed. In 5.0.3, the waveform~ auto-update mechanism will notice sample rate changes.

David Z.

cebec's icon

Thank you for confirming. I went ahead and paste-replaced the waveform object in the patch I'm developing and it now displays the correct buffer length in this case.

cebec's icon

Bizarre. It seems I have to create a new waveform object every time I open the patch. I'll try the workaround, then.