[PD] advice on loading 300 samples

[derek holzer]

Hi Patrick,

patrick wrote:
>> how big are the samples?
> +- 2 mb each sample

A "brute force" approach would be to load all the samples into RAM with 
arrays. You're talking about +/- 600 mB of data if I understand right. 
You could get away with it if you had a Gig of RAM I think. I don't use 
Xgroove for sample playback, I prefer to work with tabread4~ since it 
eats less resources and isn't as dodgy.

But my real advice is to try Frank Barknecht's [fluid] external, in the 
Footils library. It's based on the MIDI sampler Fluidsynth:

http://www.nongnu.org/fluid/

And it does a great job of voice allocation (you could play hundreds of 
notes simultaneously if you wanted to!) and sample management. You'll 
need to assemble a soundfont of your audio first, however, so check out 
Swami for that:

http://swami.sourceforge.net/

Don't know what OS you have. I know it's flawless on Linux, haven't 
tried it anyplace else.

good luck!
d.

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