[PD] Simplest way for looping soudfiles

[Òscar Martínez Carmona]

Maybe I'm not getting anything related about this topic... but what about
using the end "bang" that many audio-file-playing-externals feature?


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Roman Haefeli <reduzent at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Die, 2013-01-22 at 21:09 +0000, Pagano, Patrick wrote:
> > Not Sure that one will not loop properly because of the need for an open
> message each time.
>
> You are indeed right. It is not the proper way to do it. Even the
> help-file of [readsf~] states it. However, in practice it usually works
> flawlessly (probably nowadays disks seem fast enough and there is enough
> memory for fs caches). Simply try it with the help of [readsf~ ].
>
> Also the table based approach works, though I'd make two modifications
> to the previously posted patch. Use the '-maxsize ' flag for the message
> to [soundfiler] in order to allow bigger tables. Then, I'd get rid of
> [tabread4~], as it is not needed when you only want to play at original
> speed. Actually, I even wouldn't use [tabread~ ], because for very large
> tables, the index from [phasor~ ] or [line~ ] will not be precise enough
> to hit every sample after position 16'000'000 (limit of the 32bit
> floating point format). If you use [tabplay~], it is as simple my
> previous example with [readsf~ ]:
>
>
> [r playagain]
> |
> [tabplay yourpreviouslyfilledtable]
>                                   |
>                                   [s playagain]
>
>
> IIRC, [tabplay~] doesn't suffer from that precision problem described
> before.
>
> Roman
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pd-list-bounces at iem.at [mailto:pd-list-bounces at iem.at] On Behalf
> Of Roman Haefeli
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 4:04 PM
> > To: pd-list at iem.at
> > Subject: Re: [PD] Simplest way for looping soudfiles
> >
> >
> >
> > On Die, 2013-01-22 at 20:50 +0000, Pagano, Patrick wrote:
> > >         Can people share their opinions on the simplest way to create
> > >         a looping soundfile.
> >
> > [r playagain]
> > |
> > [open /path/to/your/file.wav, 1(
> > |
> > [readsf~ ]
> >          |
> >          [s playagain]
> >
> >
> > Roman
> >
> >
> >
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Òscar Martínez Carmona
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