Hi again

I work with some friends on a horror tunnel like live roleplaying game, as sound designer+sound technician.

This means i go to a house, hide speakers around and take long cables to a sound control room, where my Motu 828 Mk2, my Macbook, me and Puredata are ready to scare the shit out of those poor participants.

I need to program a patch that lets me:

• select sounds from my pool in a userfriendly, fast, non-glitchy way
• play them, stop them, loop them, control their volume.
• select the output (room1, room2, room3) in a usefriendly, fast, non-glitchy way

It would be good to be able to use this patch as an abstraction, with various instances of it.

So, the thing is that i already did this with maxmsp, but with Puredata is being a bit difficult.

Could someone please tell me wich objects would be the most appropiate to use for:

• the sound selecting part (some kind of menu... popup?... that i can populate with my sounds)
• the sound player part (w loop on/off, play, stop, gain...)
• the output selection part (in maxmsp i was using a menu for this too)

I already did a search on this but can't find the answers i need.

Btw, i have Pd-0.39.3-extended-macosx104-i386 but i can't create a [sfplay~] i thought it came already on the extended package ?

Thanks to all of you for your help.

[openpanel] and [soundfiler] to load a soundfile into an array (

Thank you very much.

Is there anything like a menu where i can select symbols and output numbers ?

As in, selecting "living room" outputs "1" wich i use to open the correct output.

Thanks again.

See the attachement.

Domien

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

I've extended the previous example to show what other options there are to make such selection possible. This time it's a combination of gui elements and canvases. You could also check out the graph on parent option (which finally works good since 0.39) which allows to make nice abstractions.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/roomSelector2.pd

Thank you very much domien.

I've been looking at all the objects suggested by nestor.

I think [openpanel] is a very slow, and effort consuming way to access the sounds, particularly if i have to change sounds often.

I remember a max object called, if i remember correctly, [ubumenu] wich is a collapsable menu that i could populate with all the files of a folder.

Is there any known workaround to do something like this?

Any other suggestion ?

The most obvious way, having all the sounds with path as symbol-messages, would be too visual cluttering imo.

Thank you all!

@domien said:

I've extended the previous example to show what other options there are to make such selection possible. This time it's a combination of gui elements and canvases. You could also check out the graph on parent option (which finally works good since 0.39) which allows to make nice abstractions.

Oh i didn't see this! thanks again!

mmmm.... i could go with all the path/sound as messages on a subpatch and bang them using a canvas as you show. I would just need to know all the sounds i am going to use.... mmmmm

I am going to give it a try, any other ideas are welcome and appreciated.

Thanks.

/Edit

Using vradio gives a much elegant and clean way to do it, but still does not solve the space problems. What about that object... popup ?

try [playlist] from the unauthorized library, but it won't work on windows.