How do you get around the "error: array2: number of points (xxxxxx) not a power of 2 plus three" when using tabread~?

I've loaded the same beat into other peoples pd patches using tabread~ for playback (even showing the same number of points in their array) and it works fine.

Ok I sort of figured this out.

and how you did that, because I have same problem...

make sure the number from tab to array are the same

That should only be a problem with [tabosc4~], not [tabread~] or [tabread4~]. If you use the [sinesum( or [cosinesum( messages to generate your waveforms and give the length as a power-of-two, it will automatically generate the 3 guard points for you. If you're using a sample that is not a power-of-two in length, then you'll probably be better off using a [phasor~] driven [tabread~].

[phasor~]
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• <-- length of sample
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  [tabread4~ myArray]