can anyone help? I'm trying to load a short sample into an array but I keep getting the message 'warning: array rightbike: clearing save-in-patch flag' and doesn't load the array. what does this mean?

By the way I have loaded other samples successfully. Maybe I should mention the samples I'm having trouble with are 'right channel only, mono'.

All that warning means is that the patch won't save the contents of the array with it unless you go back into its properties and reset it. It shouldn't affect whether or not it loads.

Does 'right channel only, mono' mean it's actually a mono file, or is it a stereo file with only audio in the right channel? If that's the case, then it's probably loading the empty left channel. The only way I know to get [soundfiler] to read the second (right) channel is to load them both:

[read foo.wav leftarray rightarray(
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[soundfiler]

Ah ok.

Well I did bounce the audio from a daw, as a mono file panned hard right. I did the same for the left channel and it's works fine in pd. Just not sure why the right isn't working.
I will try what you said, and let you know

Many thanks

Brilliant!! thanks so much. Looking at your example, I found I just had to right the name of the file again.
So I ended up with

[read -resizse $ filename filename(
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[soundfiler]

So am I right in thinking the first 'filename' is left channel/stereo and the 2nd 'filename' is right channel?

All the same, it works a treat.
Cheers

@Nk said:

So am I right in thinking the first 'filename' is left channel/stereo and the 2nd 'filename' is right channel?

No, but holy shit you seem to have stumbled on how to isolate a single channel of a multichannel file. So, thanks for that!

Well, you're sort of right, but they're not filenames; they're array names. What I was trying to say with my earlier example (and sorry for not being clear, I was rushing a bit) is that you would have two arrays, in this case named "rightarray" and "leftarray". These two arrays would hold the right and left channel of a stereo file "foo.wav", respectively.

Now, when [soundfiler] loads a multichannel file, it puts each channel in a different array depending on the number of array names you give it. If you only give it one, it loads the first channel of the file. If you give it two, it loads the first two, etc. With stereo files, the first channel is the left one and the second is the right one. So if you only give it one array, it will only load the left channel. In order to load the right channel, you have to give it a second array name. But, it seems that if you make both array names the same, it will load the left channel into the array, and then overwrite that with the right channel. Brilliant!

Yeah the array names I mean. I just name them the same as the file, so it stays clear from me. If I haven't opened a patch for a while, I can immediately see what's in the array.

Ah I see now! I never realised 1 array is just the left channel. That's why I was having issues loading the right channel!! Thanks for clarifying.

Awesome!! so important for me to able to do that as I'm working on a binaural project.