Well,

I'm preparing an interactive piece consisting basically in four inputs (contact mics) which detect and control four different incoming sounds through the bonk~ object. The problem is that with two inputs is fine but with four there is trouble in loading the audio files and also pick up the sound by touching each mic.

I have and external soundcard (M-Audio Fast Ultra Track) connected to my mac book pro 15" with the four inputs / amplifier with two loudspeakers. .

It's my first sound installation and I should be set up it by the 15th June. Please help me, possibly!

Please find the attached pd patches - 2-4 inputs..

Betta.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/four_inputs_load_calibrate_test_1.pd

Hi,

Have you selected your sound card in : preferences -> audio settings ?

you can select your sound card for input (or/and output) and specify to use 4 channels... then it should work.

your patch seems to be ok for the input and bonk features. If you still have pbs let us know.

Hi,

Thanks for your answer.

Oh Yes sure.

The thing is that I got the four signals from the soundcard when I touch the mics but when I load the soundfile from openpanel/soundfile I can do this just for the first input, and it works good.

The trouble is when I try to load the others sounds file to the others three ones from each openpanel/sounfiler. Infact Pd still contiunues to load the sound in the first one.

I can't figure out what's going on.

Cheers

All your read -resize have the same name
all your tabread4 objects read the same file

you should match names

btw I use this method to load and playback sound files (see attached patch)

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

That's great!

I've tested the whole system so many times and now it seems to be alright!

many thanks for your help

Cool !

If you make a video to gather information I would be glad to see the result of your installation :-

Yes sure I'll do it!
Now I'm thinking about the final output, maybe a guitar amplifier with built-in speakers?!??!? I really don't know...