Is there a way to postpone a bang from firing for a specified amount of time? I'm making a patch for my monome where I load a sample to a button and when I press it, the sample plays and the led lights up for the duration of the sample. I know how to turn the led off and on, but I want it to automatically cut out after the sample is done playing. I also need to know how I can measure the length of a sample in milliseconds so as to make a variable out of it and use that to do the whole bang postponing. Thank you for any help.

Austin PG

The [delay] (or [del]) object will delay a bang by an amount in milliseconds set by the first argument.

For example: [del 1000] will delay a bang by 1 second.

Depending on how you're loading the sample you should be able to easily get its length. [soundfiler] will output the table length after the sample has been loaded.

you'll have to convert the sample frames to ms however...

To do this:

[soundfiler]
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[/ 44100] <- or whatever your sample rate is
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• <- convert secs to ms

Awesome. Thanks, guys.