saint wrote:

Thanks guys,

So loading to RAM seems to be the solution.

Anyone have any ideas how I do that in WinXP?

Or what would the alternative methods of data storage that PD (vanilla) provides natively that operates to/from RAM?

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If I understand correctly, once you have loaded a file into either [textfile] or an [array] the data itself is stored in ram. So, the solution should be to load all patterns that are to be used into ram using one or both of these objects.

If using [textfile] and importing multiple files you could use two instances of [textfile]. One which reads the files (one by one in any order you want), and outputs all the data into a second [textfile]. The second textfile does not read from file. It only holds the data. Then you just need to rewind and bang.

I've been working on creating a sequencer which can record and play simple midi-style data. For that I use tabread/tabwrite and tables/arrays.