Hi there,

I'm pretty new to PD and try to use it for a research project. I have built a very simple sample player which reads and plays back a WAV File according to a number which is received via OSC.
The problem is that as soon as a new file is triggerd the playback of the old sound stops. I have 16 sounds in total which might be triggered in quick succession so that I would actually need a patch that allows the playback of more than one sound at a time.
My idea is to build a parallel structure of 16 sample players and depending on the number on the input one of this 16 players is triggered. How can I do that?

Thanks,
Alex

[sel] and/or [route] are your friends...

to play 16 sounds at once, the 'easiest' way is to use 16 [readsf~] objects.

more reliably, and allowing sample manipulation, you would load 16 samples into seperate tables, and then use 16 different sample play objects. [tabplay~] for simple straight playback, or [tabread4~] for speed/pitch changes.

another option, because you will rarely play all 16 files at once, is to have 4 sample players, and a wraparound function.

Thanks alot! 'sel' does the trick.