i want to load my own sample into the "scratch machine".

this was my intuitive approach:

• put my sample (mysample.wav) into the sounds folder
• started pd
• opened "B07.sampler.pd"
• renamed the "read ../sound/voice.wav sample-table" message to
  "read ../sound/mysample.wav sample-table"
• tried playing the sample per the instructions in the example

of course, the result was dead silence. so, i think the next step is learning how to read and write soundfiles to tables.

can anyone tell me how this works, and where to look in the documentation?

i love the idea of what pd can do, though it is a bit left-brained for me.

thanks in advance,

mw

The most basic approach is using [soundfiler] with the appropriate message :

[read c:/somefolder/somesubfolder/myfile.wav myTable(
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[soundfiler]

Secondly you can add some extra parameters to the read message, e.g. the -resize flag so that the table will auto-grow or shrink to the size of your file:

[read -resize c:/somefolder/somesubfolder/myfile.wav myTable(
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[soundfiler]

For a stereo file you can do this (make sure you first create the tables myTableLeft and myTableRight) :

[read -resize c:/somefolder/somesubfolder/myfile.wav myTableLeft myTableRight(
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[soundfiler]

To make things a bit more dynamic you can insert an "open file" dialog and push the selected file in the message like this :

[bang]
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[openpanel]
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[read -resize $1 myTableLeft myTableRight(
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[soundfiler]

The [soundfiler] object always outputs the number of samples.

Hope this helps,

D.

thanks,

that helps to put things in perspective.

it all started to make sense after looking at more examples, and fiddling around a few more times.

hi domien,

I'm a newbie, I followed your instructions but the output window doesn't say anything and I cannot listen to the sample

my patch is this one:

[read /Users/clari/Documents/tutorials/Pd/experienceArray/sound/first.wav array1(
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[soundfiler]

am I doing something wrong?

thanks!

if you don't use the -resize flag, your table will only be 100 samples long, which is just 2ms.

notahumanbeing mw described how to load a sample on a table. If you want to listen to it you have to use [tabread~] or related