Hi!

As in the title, I am looking to play a wav file, starting after several seconds/samples. In other words: I want to be able to choose where in the file the playback starts.

Does anyone know of any ways to do this?

Thanks!

Hi @luna, welcome to the forum!

For that I'd use [soundfiler] to send the audio data into an array and then play it back using [tabread~]. Then using some simple math you can do all sorts of things, like playing only a chunk of the data, or playing backwards, or at different speeds, etc.

Take a look at the end of the chapter 3.4.1.1.2 Buffers and then 3.4.1.2 Playback of saved sound at: http://www.pd-tutorial.com/english/ch03s04.html

Hope this helps, cheers!
Gilberto