is there ANY delay when looping a tabread~ by attaching its left outlet to its inlet?

If there is, it's not noticible, but if a patch is running for a very long time, things might get out of sync.

Does delay increase (or show up at all) if I stick a [t b b] between the outlet and have something else trigger (loading a new sample) before it is played back?

hope i was clear

if not i can throw up a quick patch.

Do you mean [tabplay~]? That's the one with a message-format in/outlet.If so, I'm not 100% sure, but I think there would be a small (on the order of fractions of miliseconds) delay, since messages are only processed between blocks (every 64 samples, by default).

You might be better off using a [phasor~] or a [loop~] plugged into a [tabread~].

ah.. i DID mean tabplay.

I was thinking about the patch, away from my PD computer

It was a quick and dirty patch, so tabplay was easier to make run. I'll see about converting it to tabread~

THANKS