ah brilliant thanks martin that's exactly what i need i reckon. will be able to try it out tomorrow properly!

----- Original Message ---- From: Martin Peach martin.peach@sympatico.ca To: saintidle@yahoo.com; pd-list@iem.at Sent: Monday, 11 February, 2008 8:19:56 PM Subject: RE: [PD] Phasor Driven Midi File Playback?

saint wrote:

I've

been trying to incorporate synched looped midi file playback into a

system

of tabread looping players. So far I've been using xeq but recently

discovered

seq in the cyclone library.

I

can kinda get xeq to work but it involves me cheating the tempo of the

file

playback, banging a sync point at the start of every audio loop and

I'm

getting quite confused with the different xeq objects (the

documentation

has been down for a number of years)...

Is

there a more graceful way of doing this like I do with the

phasor/tabread

audio? I see that seq has a 'goto' command with seconds and

milliseconds,

if I fed that with my audio phasor would the midi loops play

in

sync with the audio loops?

There's the [mrpeach/midifile] object. You feed it ticks from a [metro] to advance through the file and can jump to any tick in the file. It can also dump the file so you can find the tick number to go to. It doesn't know about seconds but you can tune the speed very finely. I have had it running in sync with the Hydrogen drum machine for hours at a time.

Martin

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