Goal: Saving two arrays (left and right channel) in a (stereo) wave file with a specific filename e.g. sound1.wav. Then overwritting the arrays and save again with different filename e.g. sound2.wav.

So far, I am able to save the arrays using

|bang(
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[savepanel] (Bang->savepanel gives "save as menu")
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[write(
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[soundfiler]

I tried to get rid of the "save as" by sending the specified file name e.g. sound1(.wav) to [savepanel]. However this results in:

error: savepanel: no such method for 'sound1(.wav)'

I tried changing various things (writesf~, no savepanel etc), but so far I haven't found the mistake...

Edit: I do have a counter available, so I can use something like "sound$1" as filename (where $1 is the counter value) or use [select].

check out [makefilename]

Hey,
I don't know if I'm understanding you correctly, but it seems like you think that the [savepanel] object has something to do with the actual saving of the soundfile.

It doesn't it just generates a filename. It's the 'write' message being sent to the soundfiler which causes the soundfiler object to write to disk.

My suggestion is this:

[counter] (assuming this outputs a float when you bang the top)
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[makesymbol sound%s.wav]
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|write $1(
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[soundfiler]

The makesymbol will take whatever float you send it and output a symbol soundXXX.wav (the %s in the argument is replaced by whatever float you input to the object). The write $1 then prepends write to the filename, and sends the instruction to soundfiler to write the wav file.

Theo

@sunji said:

check out [makefilename]

Thanks for the tip. 'Found' this object/command just before reading your reply .

@thep said:

Hey,
I don't know if I'm understanding you correctly, but it seems like you think that the [savepanel] object has something to do with the actual saving of the soundfile.

It doesn't it just generates a filename. It's the 'write' message being sent to the soundfiler which causes the soundfiler object to write to disk.

My suggestion is this:

[counter] (assuming this outputs a float when you bang the top)
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[makesymbol sound%s.wav]
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|write $1(
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[soundfiler]

The makesymbol will take whatever float you send it and output a symbol soundXXX.wav (the %s in the argument is replaced by whatever float you input to the object). The write $1 then prepends write to the filename, and sends the instruction to soundfiler to write the wav file.

Theo

I tried couple of things without savepanel, but I didn't get any saved file(s). Now I see what I did wrong: I forgot to connect [write] and [soundfiler]. The following works

[bang(
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[test.wav]
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[write $1]
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[soundfiler]

Now going to change this to get the filenames right!
By the way I think [makesymbol] should be [symbol]?

In case anybody needs this in the future:

[bang( [r counter]
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\ /
\ /
[float]
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[makefilename ./rec/sound%d.wav]
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[write $1]
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[soundfiler]

Notes:

1. I had to use ./directory/ instead of ../directory/
   I saw ../ mentioned couple of times.

2. Make sure to use %d (if input is float/number) when I used %s PD crashed when attempting to save the second wav

Now I have another (small) problem:
Is there a way to overwrite files if they already exist?

edit: Nevermind, files are overwritten.

Here's a patch that keeps count of how many times you hit bang and saves it with the patch. You can copy and paste it where you need to have a unique filename.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/uniquefilename.pd