I'm pretty new to pd and I want to make a very basic looper that just loops audio in.

Maybe it's better described as a repeater. I just want to be able to listen to audio input, toggle 1 to start recording, toggle 0 to stop recording and instantly start the loop.

I've looked at some patches here on the forum and in the tutorials and put together something using tabwrite~ and tabread~ (plus timer and phasor):

The problem I'm running into is that the first loop I hear right after I stop rec / start loop is always slightly longer than the ones that follow. The interesting thing is that this does NOT happen the first time I load the patch and loop. The first time it sounds fine and consistent. It's only after the first time that these problems come up. I'm hoping this is the key clue for a patch detective
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@Moddmo You need to reset the [phasor]'s phase. It starts at 0 on first run. Then is paused at whatever phase it reached when it get's the [0( message on it's left intlet. Just send that [0( message to the right inlet as well, and it should work, I think...