So I have 64 txt files containing 16 digits that could be a 1 or 0. these digits are used as toggle states for my sequencer. the state of a toggle is sent to [s seqstep1] to [s seqstep16] and recieved to its 1 of the 16 toggles boxes in the sequencer. When a sequence is loaded a file path with the sequence number attached to it like this for example pattern-1.txt to pattern-64.tx there can be up to 64 sequences play at any given time based on the [s seqstep1 ] for the loaded txt file.

I am able to play them one at a time by changing the number atom and pushing play but im not sure how I should go about loading and playing all 64 txt files at once.

The below screen shot is how the sound is trigger using the [OBBangOnMetronome] abstract. The outlet is sent to second inlet of [OBPlayPadSample]. The first inlet is the selected sequence (the sequence that we want to play) number atom.

I need a a [Play all] button is the easiest way I can describe it.

The last screen shot is simply for visual representation of how the sequencer looks.

@RetroMaximus Instead of 64 .txt files you could use one [text define] object and write the content of each .txt file to one line of [text].
And read it with [text get].

@RetroMaximus You can also take a look at [clone] to generate 64 instances of an abstraction. You can easily send a bang from a sequencer to all of them to play all of them at once

@RetroMaximus As @Jona said, text is very flexible because you can not only address lines by index, but also individual fields in each line. It makes more sense to use only one text object, unless you want to save different "presets" for each sequencer line, but even that could be worked around.

I'll throw an idea (which might not be applicable in your case) which is to take advantage of the fact that lists of zeros and ones can be expressed (and therefore stored) as the binary version of an integer, and convert to and from its binary equivalent. binseq-help shows a simple application of that.
bin_sequencer.zip
(the abstractions are called "bin2f" and "f2bin", but in fact they work with integers only).

@Jona Thx ill be loking into [text get] but now that @ingox mentioned [clone] I totally forgot that I have a list setup in the pad controller abstract for this occasion when it came to loading the sequences. I have to do a bit of back tracking to see where I left off at that point but I should be able to get this working.

@ingox Yup i forgot i have a list setup in a cloned abstract already and completely forgot about it. thx for reminding me

Ok so I have it working!! but now that i move a few things inside of the cloned abstract I get "clone: no instance number in message" in the pd console when the save button is pushed. Im not sure why.
The screen shot below shows the sequence abstract with the cloned abstract inside of it.

OBPatternSequence.pd

oh and whenever a the metronome is banged all of the indicators are banged. So no matter what number is in the atom and compared to the [1( [2( message etc is always true and that shouldn't be the case.

OverBlastMetronome.pd

This abstract translates a bang from the metronome to a number

OBTranslateMetronomeToStep.pd

@RetroMaximus Take a look at this:

And it is really called abstraction.

OBTranslateMetronomeToStep.pd only adds 1 to the index generated by the metronome?

OBTranslateMetronomeToStep.pd splits {list 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16( list to find the current step. I don't have any math involved.

I do see the atom above [sel 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16( changing from 1 to 16 while the metronome is on but still all of the bng's are being activated. in theory they should bang in sequence of the current step inside of the metronome abstraction.

@RetroMaximus Yes, but OBTranslateMetronomeToStep.pd only adds 1 to the index generated by the metronome.

For example, if the input of OBTranslateMetronomeToStep.pd is 14, the output is 15.

This would do the same:

@RetroMaximus The reason that all bangs are banged is probably that the cloned abstractions are all sending different numbers at the same time?

I think your patch is overly complicated. It would be easier to help you, if you could just explain what you want to do in simple terms

For example, this simply works:

@RetroMaximus Sorry, i should have read your first post again, where you described what you want to do in simple terms. My apologies.

Here is a simple sequencer that plays the values of the different sequences stored in [text]. Click on [text define -k $0-sequences] to see the sequences. There are six sequences stored there as an example: text-sequencer.pd

Here is a variation that outputs the line numbers that are 1 instead: text-sequencer2.pd

There it is!.

I have a few questions.

• I know how to open and load a text doc with [textfile] but I don't know how to open a text file then populate it to [text define]. My guess is using [textfile] with [text define -k $0-sequence] inside of the abstraction and magically the text file will populate whatever is loaded into [textfile]? How do I open and load a text file to [text define]?

I cant get over how efficient pd is so I have cleaned up my previous OBSaveSequence abstractions to make it easier to look at.

• Secondly concerning my OBSaveSequence abstraction. New toggle states are being written but I have to click the save pattern button twice. I should mention the save button/bang is connected to the second inlet.
  OBSaveSequence.pd

obsavesequence is inside the obpatternsequence abstraction. Figured I should provide both.

I'm not sure if the problem is the above abstraction or this one. I don't know whats wrong any sort of insight will help here.
OBPatternSequence.pd

• Lastly I slightly modified your abstraction to accommodate my needs and I cant figure out how to get the line number of the banged step. I would like to use it as a float connected to the first inlet of this abstraction to trigger the loaded sound.

OBPlayPadSample.pd

Below is your slightly modified metronome.
OverBlastMetronome.pd

oh i didnt see the second abstraction you provided I will be taking a look at it. thx

I tried to use the float in this variation but I'm not hearing any sound. If i change the number atom in OBPlayPadSample and click the [Play( message manually I can hear the sound. I don't think the float is getting triggered.

Small revision.

OverBlastMetronome.pd

I have the metronome working as I like now. I can play multiple programmed sequences from [text define].

a few more bugs and I will be able to focus on something else. Oh it will be a good day.

For any body that is interested here is the modified fully functional metronome.

OverBlastMetronome.pd