Fares Kayali wrote:
hi!
thanks a lot for the mixer... it runs well under mac os x and i think i might be able to use it for my project!
awesome :)
Theres just one problem... i'm experiencing a short pause in all sounds when loading a new sample... am i missing an external or do you know any way to overcome this problem? I have them same issue when simply looping a sample with tabplay~ and exchanging it during play.
this is a common problem with Pd's sound file loading. you could try setting your latency higher. or you could use something like readsf~ to load the sounds.
with soundfiler (which my patch uses) the system glitches a bit as memory is allocated and the sound is loaded, etc. (it also glitches when you resize an array) but if you use readsf~ to play the sound into an array, you can avoid some of these issues. i think this might also have been addressed with readanysf~?
i have a modified version of the patch that supports this type of file loading, but i get some weird anomolies where the sound isn't yet loaded and it's still trying to play. but, if anyone is interested, i could post it on audionerd.com.
the solution as i see it was:
- i have 2 arrays set to allow a maximum of 30 seconds in length, so
these are never resized (to avoid glitches) 2. i readsf~ into those arrays 3. i tell my patch what the size (in samples) of the wavfile was
the 3rd point gets tricky. i suppose i could [timer] how long the sound played and calculate the size in samples. but instead i'm polling the sound file itself. however, i have had problems on windows in the past with getting wav file size, so i'm using a custom external for this! :P
ha, so i guess it gets kind of complicated. but if you're interested in a patch to the patcher that includes the [pokewave] external i'm using and the replacement for the loadsound abstraction, email me. in fact, if people like it better, maybe i should just put it into GYRE by default?
--eric
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