Hi! I've tried to find something to explain this to me but everything I can find is more complicated than I need.
Essentially, I'm struggling with two things

• Storing a set audio sample as a number of slices which can be played back at random
• Doing the same for a variable audio input, where the sample can be captured, stored as slices, played at random and then cleared after a set number of cycles, so that another sample can then be recorded in

I hope that makes some kind of sense. If anyone has any insight into the general objects I need to use it would be much appreciated Thanks!

Can you explain what you mean by "slice"?

@g.arj Something like this although it has no audio input...... but I am sure that could be easily added.
Write over the table when you want a new sample. I am a bit brain dead today and not shure straight away how to resize the table for a recording but that can be done too.
Microsound-granular.pd
Pretty sure it's Vanilla.
Take a look at Katja's SliceJockey too........ http://www.katjaas.nl/slicejockey/slicejockey.html
Was Pd Extended........ but I think someone said on this forum that it can work in Vanilla.
Google is your friend.
David.

@jameslo chopping up a sample into multiple smaller samples, I suppose. Sorry for being unclear. I'm still relatively new to all this!

@whale-av Thanks for your suggestions I had been Googling but was having a hard time understanding anything close to what I was after.

@g.arj How close is David's patch to what you're looking for?

@g.arj I am sure it is not exactly what you wish but there should be a few clues in there.
I have added recording to the patch...... Microsound-granular-record.pd
I don't have any headphones at the moment so I am not sure what it does when you start to record again.
I get some feedback....... but it is probably a lot worse.
In fact it might be easier to do with two recordings each with a [delwrite~] [delread~] pair looping and an additional [delread~] randomly accessing the delay line..
David.

@whale-av This is SO helpful, thank you so so so much. I think this is the boost I needed to get where I'm going. I'll update when I manage to make some progress. Thank you so much for your time and help!!!