Hi all,
I'm an absolute beginner on Pd, but I've done the big mistake to promise to a friend of mine a simple "gift" for an exposition he's doing right now.
What I'm trying to achieve:

1. a trigger start a sound, choose from a bunch of them;
2. every time the trigger "bang" a different sound is played;
3. if triggers overlaps also sounds overlaps;

All done on a Pc with Vista, Pd-extended, internal audio interface, Eowave Eobody2 with a movement detector, via Max Runtime.

As said, I'm an absolute beginner on Pd, I've read a lot about it here on the forum and on manuals, but still can find the easiest way to achieve this apparently simple task...

Can someone introduce me, slowly and step by step, in this amazing world?

Many thanks

The tutorial mod wrote,

http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-5853-abstraction-why-use-etc

was very helpful to me. I suggest you start there. The instructions are clear and some of it speaks specifically to creating a sample player.

I wrote a patch that plays samples in sequential order or at random (each subsequent sample turns off the previous), or at random (samples are not turned off and overlap). I posted it a while ago in the patch~ section.

I used mod's tutorial,

http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-5880-simple-counters

to help in figuring out the logic of the different playback methods.

Hi joncrg,
thanks for your answer.
I read the mod's tutorial and I've done some work on it. Now I can load and play samples, one at a time.
I've downloaded your patch right now, but I can't figure out how make it work on my silly project, maybe I need another coffee...
I can't figure out where I have to "put" my .wav files, for example, and I can't understand if I need to do so.
I've understood that your patch is *the* patch, but maybe I'm too much newbie to dig in it...

Trafficarte, here is another version of the patch you downloaded. This patch was written for the performance of a specific piece. I've changed it a little now so you can see what you need to do. Everything that you need to change is now called "yourfile"

I'm really not the one to get advice from on this forum as I'm pretty new, but do have this patch that's probably gonna work for your needs and I hope it gets you on your way. There are a couple bugs in the patch.

Let me know if you can get it working.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/yoursampler.zip

Many thanks for your patience and assistance, joncrg!
Meanwhile I've found a way to make your previous patch working with my files: I've put your patch in the same folder of the wav files and renamed them so it can find them.
Works flawlessly...

Thanx again, Downloading your new patch right now

Hi all,
I've done some tweaking on some patches I've found here on this great forum, beginning with the joncrg's ones.
Now I have a really simple sample player, triggered by a motion sensor connected via my Eobody2 system.
Everytime the sensor "bangs" the Pd's patch reads and plays my samples. I've put a modified "up-down-counter" patch to control the volume slider, and done some minor tweaking here and there.
I got to run it on my Mac: there is no way to make both my ( old...) Pc work on this simple project.
On Vista I've a lot of audio glitches and Midi strange behaviors, on Xp my Eobody2 ( a midi controller, nothing else) is recognized as "Usb speakers"...

( can't find a way to upload the patches, anyway...)

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