Howdy folks,

I was wondering if there was something like a gate but for audio I/O.

I'm building a patch that plays random audio files at random intervals. What I want to add is a random audio output. If possible (in practice), I will hook up 6 speakers to my audio interface and let Pd choose one output (= speaker) at random.

A gate~ seems to do something a little bit different.

I hope there's a functionality for this.

Thanks.

I think you want

zexy/demultiplex~

(... I posted a very similiar question here not too long ago. I don't find it particularly intuitive that the same thing is called gate with control data and demux with signals - anyone care to explain why actually?)

TLP7: Those are named differently because they aren't in the same library and were written by different authors. There is a [gate~] in Max/MSP (which is what cyclone tries to emulate), but there doesn't seem to be a cyclone version of it.

There is, however, [zexy/demultiplex] alongside [zexy/demultiplex~].

thanks!

you can also make a similar thing quite easily using vanilla objects:

[inlet~]
|
|
|
| [random 6]
| |
| [== 0]
| |
[*~]
|
[outlet~]

and just add:

[== 1]
|
[*~ ]

etc etc, until [== 5]

Awesome. [demultiplex~] with a random generator linked to the [start( to the [readsf~] did the trick. I have it set to 2 right now because I don't have 6 speakers hooked up right now.

This is gonna be pretty cool!