Hi everyone,

Is there a way of creating a league table of arrays for multiple audio file playback?

I'm trying to load 12 loops in a patch and only want one to be played at a time.

EG, when one loop is triggered, it stops the previous loop. This would work for all 12 tables.

Really simple... but I'm having trouble doing it elegantly with so many audio files.

Thanks in advance

use [set tablename( messages to switch between different tables.

Thanks.

So if I had three tables; "array 1", "array 2" and "array 3" the set table message for selecting array 2 would [set tablename(array 2)] ?

-Noob

No, you cannot have spaces in the tablenames, so they would be called "array1", "array2" and "array3" and the message would be [set array1(.

I'm acutally working on something similar where I made subpatches for the tables and use the $0 variable to send to the "manipulator" subpatch so I can target the correct table to play. I'm still mapping out my Korg Padkontrol while it's in native-mode so that I can select the table, load the file (from [playlist]), select the sampler, send the reference to the table, set the in/out points( speed, pitch,etc) then trigger the sample.

I'll post how I did it once I get the prototype working.

Drrrrr...what is [playlist] ?

*facepalm*

Before you get too far: make the audio files load into your arrays at startup. You may get audio dropouts when accessing the HDD.

On second thought, that may just be for playing files - either way, if you expect to "read file to array set cue points playback speed and play!" in zero logical time you will get dropouts.

sorry, that was a bit "stream of consciousness " I don't expect to do all of that at once...
it's more the process of how I want this particular "mpd" patch to work.

I originally had the sampler functionality tied to one table which is mapped to one pad button. But I realized I didn't really need 16 tables, so I separated the "sampler" from the table. So I can have 16 "samplers" that reference only 8 tables worth of samples.

The functionality of sending the table reference to the "sampler" is what Hadlum might find useful.

PS I got tired of not having [playlist] on windows so I went back to linux. and no the PDmtl version isn't quite the same.

That's helpful PonZo, thanks.

Does anyone know a way of copying the file extention from the symbol output of [playlist] in to a message?

(playlist)
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[set $1(
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[ (

Thanks for letting me know there is such a thing as playlist - sounds useful.