Really showing my noobiness here...

So I want to be able to distribute some of my patches that analyze audio to control video, and it was brought to my attention taht not everyone uses JACK. So I decided to make a nice little sample player so everyone could use the patches. I am using [soundfiler] to read the files into two arrays(for stereo) then [tabplay].

2 issues. the first is that the I cant get the whole file into the array, only about a minute or so (I'll check the length later). Secondly, I get clicks, pops and other artifacts, and the visual rendering is affected.

When I use the same patch streaming audio in from Ableton Live, it runs smooth as butter, so it won't affect my personal performance, but the general masses will suffer by not being able to play with these psychedellic machines themselves.

Any suggestions?

-Evan_

yeah, i've noticed you can only put so much into the [soundfiler]

I do believe there is some capability for MP3 streaming (Ice cast, or something. can't remmeber)

Would just using [readsf~] to stream from disk be fine? Its generally better for playback of large files, though you don't have the nice conveniences of editing them on the fly like with arrays.

*the penny drops* I have a habit of over looking the more obvious solutions!

readsf~ sounds perfect!

[readsf~] works like a charm for playing the file. But once I start rendering my visuals shit hits the fan. Choppiness is overwhelming.

When I just stream the audio from Live, everything is fine, so I suppose people that don't have JACK or something similar won't be able to use these patches.

A tru shame.

Any other suggestions to solve this problem?

Well, try putting the [readsf~] in an altogether separate patch then in the patch, hooked up into [s~ sound]. Then in your patch with all the funkery bunkery, call it with [r~ sound]

Hoping that might be enough to separate the processes. since your computer can handle the computation

Otherwise just increase the buffer size.