Hello friends,

I was trying to make a virtual instrument patch playable via midi and that uses wav samples of each note of a real instrument.
Normally each sample would be called C1.wav C#1.wav D1.wav and so on, I've made a patch to transform from midi note number to note file name so it could fit into a message going to soundfiler like "read -resize $1 array1" where $1 is the name of the corresponding wav file.

It seems to be working, with the only flaw that it doesn't sound as immidiate, I think loading the file in the moment of the note being pressed creates a delay.

As workaround I was wondering if there was a more efficient way of managing the samples?

As I'm writing I've just thought I could load a really long array that stores all the notes wav files in consecutive order, and then just use math to play the segment that corresponds to the note. Would that imply it'll be monophonic though?

A last resort would be copying and paste the single voice with the soundfiler 36 times, one for each sample, and have them preload on start. But I'm sure there's a more elegant solution!

Thank you in advance, I feel both blessed and damned now that I've put myself into this puredata rabbithole

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@Alexwfm If you have lots of ram, and you probably do, then preloading is a good solution.
If it will be just one set of samples then you could also save them with the patch (right click the array properties and set the save option).
You could also use [readsf~] if you have good disk access times or an ssd.
It loads a small part of the sample and starts playing instantly...... loading the next part as necessary..... but as with the array you will need 36 [readsf~] objects if you want polyphony.
Have a look here..........https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/13057/read-multiple-wav-using-readsf
David.

As David says, I usually preload all samples to buffers in a "samplebank" type of object. In your case as they're single notes it should do the trick.
Then maybe use clone with X table readers (your number of voices) and the poly object to assign them?

Hi Whale and Gabriel, thanks for the suggestions, I'll read more about clone and give it a go!
Cheers!