I am building a symbol to pass to soundfiler to load a stereo .wav file to a pair of local arrays, but it does not work, whereas passing an identical string from a message works fine. The string looks like:

read -resize c:/Samples/Dubstep_vol_4/140_bpm_beat_01.wav Ha01L Ha01R

where Ha01L and Ha01R are the arrays.

I can see in a symbol object that I am building this string correctly, but when I connect it to soundfiler it does not work, with the message

error: soundfiler: no method for 'symbol'

Is there something I need to do to convert the symbol before passing to soundfiler?

the problem is that your message:

read -resize c:/Samples/Dubstep_vol_4/140_bpm_beat_01.wav Ha01L Ha01R

is not just 1 symbol. but symbol objects only output one symbol.

you need to either use message boxes or [pack] or

may even work too i think, but are a bit trickier.

>>Is there something I need to do to convert the symbol before passing to soundfiler?<<

if you are really persistent to continue that way, then [symbol2list] may help. it is an external object though. you may also need

after it if you get error messages.

Thank you for your replies! I am not I understand what you are suggesting.

OK, so I have my

audio file name (c:/Samples/Dubstep_vol_4/140_bpm_beat_01.wav )
array name for left channel (Ha01L)
array name for right channel (Ha01R)

each as a symbol atom

and I want to build a message (not a symbol, I got that much) that looks like

read -resize c:/Samples/Dubstep_vol_4/140_bpm_beat_01.wav Ha01L Ha01R

and pass this to soundfiler.

How do I create this message. Is that what [symbol2list] does, pack separate symbols into a single message? I can't seem to get this to work.

Again, I really appreciate your help!

Bongo

I think I solved my own problem, thanks.

I use [pack] to create a list from multiple symbols, then

to remove the literal 'list' from the front of the message.