@weightless Thank you very much for the input. It makes sense and I've successfully created multiple wav players manually. While this works how could I achieve this programmatically at runtime: e.g. create a new player passing a message via libPD to the patcher with a path to a new .wav file to instantiate a new player and automatically connect it to the outputs ?

@whale-av Thank you so much: that is awesome! It works nicely with multiple reverse object indeed. How can I create more of these at runtime and get them to patch to dac~ as well ?

Hi,

I'm new to Pd and generally more comfortable with imperative languages so I'm struggling a bit with arrays of stuctured data.

What I'm trying to achieve is something like this:

1. define a structure that is capable of:

• receiving a path to a .wav file to play
• playing the .wav file
• receiving two arguments (for example pitch and volume) to alter .wav file playback
• automatically patch audio output to dac~

2. trigger a message via libPD to create or destroy such a structure and push/pop it to a list so it can be easily managed.

In simpler terms I'd like to be able to add or remove different .wav players passing for each player a different .wav file path and different volume/pitch.

I had a look on the forum and already found the tips-for-arrays post super helpful, especially Data_structures_arrays and Popping_and_Pushing_arrays.

That helps in terms of creating a struct that would hold the data I need to manage in an array (e.g. filename/volume/pitch), but I don't understand how I could have that also automatically create open/readsf~ objects and auto route the audio output to dac~. Additionally, I imagine would some sort of unique ID to be able to remove a certain element from the array dynamically.

How do you recommend I should resolve this ?

Thank you for your time,
George