Hi

In Audacity (and maybe some other sound file editors) you can import raw data-like say a .png file or a mov file and it turns the data into sound (or noise rather)---Is there a way of doing this in PD?

Thanks for your help!

see [soundfiler]'s help patch, you can load any file as raw sample data

thanks !

"see [soundfiler]'s help patch, you can load any file as raw sample data"

• thanks for this, i tried, and unfortunately i couldn't get the result i hoped for.
  i wrote it out an object as read -raw 128 2 2 b sound/chord.au array1 which then didn't allow me to connect to the soundfiler object, in the hope that I could have Pd read a short sound file made originally with Audacity.
  Would be very grateful if you could tell me what i'm doing wrong.
  cheers,
  alistair

"i wrote it out an object" -- there's the mistake, it should be a message not an object

See the attached example patch - it successfully loads raw data here

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/soundfiler-read-raw-example.pd

thanks! I got the tables left&right to read out the signal, which they did. however i tried a few other things to get the signal to sound, unfortunately without success. i know there's a really simple solution to this, but i can't seem to work it out...

see the help patches for [tabplay~], or for more control (like variable speed playback), [vline~] and [tabread4~]