Hi,

I created a subpatch that has a sound file loaded into a table (named 'table'). The subpatch works fine when there's just one of them. However, if I want two subpatches (or three, or four, etc.) doing their thing at the same time, I run into problems. I want two subpatches to do the same thing but load/output different soundfiles. However, because the table in both subpactches share the same name, the same sound gets loaded into the table for each of the two subpatches.

I had the same problem with delay lines but was able to get around this by using a $0, which gave each line a unique identifier, so PureData was able to distinguish between the two different lines. $0 doesn't work for me when I use it for the table. I'm sure there's an easy solution for this. I am not experienced enough to know.

Chris

@me-andmymonkey Hello Chris........ This will get you on your way I think...... You might want to approach it differently, but it will show you how to use $values....... and it will do exactly what you wish if you are using wav files and you number them the same as your abstractions..
keyboard.zip
(Open "keyboard.pd", play the sounds, and open the abstractions to see what is in the first picture below)

Your problem is that it is (a little bit) hard to get $0 into the "read" message for [soundfiler(
In the second picture below I have shown how to push the $0 value into the array name in the read message...... with a little explanation.

David.

@me-andmymonkey It sounds to me like you want to create an abstraction, not a sub-patch. Each abstraction has a unique $0 value, whereas $0 within subpatches will remain the same.

To create an abstraction, just open a new patch, copy the contents of the subpatch in, save it in the same folder as you want to use it, and then create an object with that name. Ie. save patch "my-abstraction.pd" and then create [my-abstraction].

@whale-av thanks for your solution! I seems to work, i can now have two subpatches in my main patch that load and play two different sound files. However, I'm still running into a problem. Even though I have the name of the soundfile as an argument in the abstraction, I still have to manually bang the sound file directory before it will load in the array within the subpatch. Any ideas? I have pretty much copied your method to the letter. I imagine this is something simple I'm not noticing.

@me-andmymonkey Hello Chris..... if you are using vanilla (not extended) you might need to change the [initbang] to [loadbang]. Have you put your sound files in the "audio" subfolder of your patch location? If that doesn't work I will probably need to see your patch to understand the problem...... no need to upload the soundfiles...... just the patch..
David.

@whale-av the iemguts library now included [initbang] which you can use in vanilla 0.47 (for sure in 0.47-1, don't know about 0.47-0, I guess also there). You can install iemguts with deken and it will be updated.
Only note that [initbang] will work at the top level of an abstraction and not in a subpatch.

Has the Deken package been updated for the latest iemguts? Last time I checked (~3 months ago), you had to download and compile it manually to get initbang.

@LiamG I think it is updated.