hi guys. so one problem i've always had with my own patches (haven't looked into all the externs so i'm sure there's already a way to do it) was having a sampler be stereo. one workaround was i would split a stereo .wav into two separate wav's and load them into to separate arrays, and just play them back in sync, but there must be an easier way to do it.

so basically my question is how do i have a simple setup with an openpanel, where you select the .wav, and have it automatically split the .wav into two separate arrays? the L/R split method works but i'm not going to split every single sample i'm possibly going to use. alternatively are there any stereo arrays in any of the pd-extended externs?

thanks!

soundfiler already knows the number of channels of your wavefiles, if you specify it in the message, it will fill all the arrays:

[bang(
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[openpanel]
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[read $1 arrayL arrayR(
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[soundfiler]

You can also use [wavinfo] to determine the number of channels in a .wav file. This way you can determine whether or not to mix the arrays or read from just one.

Hi slvmchn! Reading your post i thought you might be interested in a patch i made. It's in this thread : Use phasor~ with long audio files (+ real old-style flanger)
You can load a stereo file into several tables, so that you can play with the file like you would in a single table (with a phasor~ for instance), only without the length of your sample being limited to the maximum size of a sigle array.