Hello all,

I am working on a patch that uses a 10-second array to live-sample an audio input. Typically, recording stops when the end of the array is reached. But ideally, I want to do continuous "loop recording", i.e. replace the old audio data with new data on each pass. Is it possible to do this using the vanilla pd objects [tabwrite~], [tabread4~], [array], or do I need to use an external?

Thank you in advance,

-Tim

I'm not sure how tabread4~ works (and can't currently access the tutorials because I'm on leopard.)

But, heres something I built using [tabplay~] instead.

It's based on Robert Fripp's "Frippertronics" set up he used to use, which had two tape players feeding into each other what he'd just played.
It's also all vanilla as far as i can tell.

edit; helps if i attach the file.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/frippertronics.pd

I got helped with this earlier. What I ended up doing was using a [delwrite~] and a [realtime]. Set the delwrite~ to the longest loop you could want, and then spigot~ in your sample while banging [realtime] when you close the loop, send the output of [realtime] to the matching [delread~] and size an array (samplerate * realtime/1000). then tabwrite~ from the delread~ into the array. Is this sensical?