Hello everybody!
I am working on a patch that plays back the content of an array or of a table 8 times, but in different pitch or speed.

There are no soundfiles included, I just record to a table via tabwrite~ and then I try to read it out via tabread4~ - the next recording will override the previous one. I combined the tabread4~ object with a phasor~ to read out the table, because this worked at least when I worked with soundfiles from my hard drive (read -resize bla.wav for example). But is it also possible to read out the audio signal in a table and make it audible via dac~ when it is not a specific soundfile? Otherwise, how can it be done? I'm really stuck here and appreciate any kind of advise and help!

@Maggie17 Once you have your waveform in an array it is a very simple thing to play it back. Just send a number into [tabplay~].
1 to start at the beginning.
15000 to start 15000 samples in.
But, as you want to play back at different pitches you will have to go the [tabread4~] + [phasor~] route.

Once you have any waveform at all in your array you can play it back.
It doesn't matter whether it was put there by soundfiler or not.
These might be of some help.
For [tabplay~] ......abs_play.zip
For [tabread4~] ....this.zip

But if you are recording into the table (rather than opening a file) you will need to set the table big enough to contain the whole recording, before you start recording.
You can do that with a message to the array like this
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David.

@whale-av first of all - thank you so much. I guess, you are the PD-knight in shining armour for helping me so often. I could not try out your advise as I was working until recently.
But still, I cannot seem to get this patch to work as I want it to. I see your point about tabplay~ and tabread4~ - thankfully, playing back with tabplay~ is a piece of cake.
I think, my patch is already close to working, but the audio playback via tabread4~ just won't work (because I don't know how, I really got a knot in my head). I attached my patch and I think, it works just fine until I come to "tabread4~ cat" at the bottom, because (oh what a surprise) - no sound comes out. Can you perhaps tell me, what I miss or if my patch is only a waste of effort anyway?...readeight3.pd

Thank you so much!

Maggie

@Maggie17 You will not be happy........ but it took me a few minutes to spot it as well......

No effort is wasted with Pd I think. It is a steep learning curve at first (although easier than most programs) but very satisfying once it is doing what you wish.
Your patch is looking good, and very tidy as well. That helps a great deal when looking to solve a problem.

It looks like it is nearly time to make it an abstraction with a nice graph on parent (GOP).
I don't think you will need to get into $ arguments as yet.
The writing bits and the graph can stay in the main patch...... and all the playback bits can go in the abstraction which you will have 8 of if I understand correctly.

Actually, a useful $ argument might be for initial playback speed, and maybe another for initial volume, because as all 8 abstractions will be identical that will be the only way to make them different as they are opened.
David.

@whale-av Well. At first I thought I was damned
This must be like the most stupid rookie mistake of them all - no number means 0, could have thought of that...
BUT! Thank you so so so so much! I cannot describe how grateful I am - these are mistakes I could never spot myself, when I am so deep in the process - thank you so much, I was really desperate already

The abstraction is the next step - now I am looking forward to creating it! I'll think about your advises while building the abstraction!
Thank you so much David!
Maggie