Hi Sven,

For pitch-shifting, get the plugin~ external (dunno the address at the moment I'm afraid, let me know if you can't find it and I'll email it) which will let you use pitchScaleHQ from the LADSPA plugins collection at plugin.org.uk. For Windows I guess there's a free VST somewhere, and apparently plugin~ supports VST on Windows; I think there might also be a vst~ object.

Don't know about the other thing, but I've never had any problems storing several minutes of audio in tables. If the samples are stored on disk already you could use tables to store the very first few milliseconds, covering the gap between sending 'open' and '1' to a readsf~ which then plays the rest of the file.

Stefan Turner

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