Hi -

Need help if possible creating the following patch:

The brief is to create a conversation box. No bigger than 2.5m cubed. What we want the box to do is the following. When one enters the box, there will be a microphone that when prompted, will record something that the user says. This message, will hopefully be recorded and sent to a playlist and as soon as the recording is done, hopefully play back to the user. Then, when the next person enters the cube, they will record a message and this will play back to them, with the previous persons message as well. And so on...

To put it mathematically; person x will walk in, record and x will be played back to them. Then, y person will walk in and record a message and message y and x will play back and so on for as many people that enter.

I have attempted with sfwrite and adc~, but stuck at the playlist part.

Any ideas/input would be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes

Thanks very much alexandros. I will try that during the course of today, if I am unsuccessful, could you possibly show this solution on my PD patch I uploaded?

Hi -

I have made the changes suggested - but running into errors. I have been extensively through the manuals and online resources. Most of the material seems very obtuse and unclear to be honest.

Please see attached patch. How do I connect these correctly to solve my problem? Please can someone demonstrate this to me inline with the original problem - I am new to PD and will learn a lot more from a solution demonstrated than spending hours trawling obtuse documentation.

THANK YOU!!!!

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/newtest.pd

Wouldn't say that the help-patches of these objects are not clear as to how the object works. You've got a few mistakes in your patch. First of all [makefilename] is an object, not a message. 2nd, the right outlet of [readsf~] sends a bang when done playing audio file, but you're sending that to a [*~] along with the left outlet which is of no use.
I've attached a version that does record and after 2 secons (the [del 2000] object does that) stops recording and starts playing back. I've included a few comments and left it to you to make it play all the recordings one after the other.
Please check the help patches thoroughly and with patience and if you still have problems come back here.

Cheers

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/newtest2.pd

Thank you very much for your help - really appreciate!! I am busy working on this now, and will let you know how I get on. Hopefully, I will be able to post the finished patch soon that will demonstrate the solution in its completion.

Best wishes,

Hi alexandros -

I have hit a snag I think it has something to do with [goto $1( , but I do not know how to create the argument to read next file after $1. I must be missing something simple or my understanding is not quite there yet (I have been doing PD for just over 24 hours now). I am now running out of time for my deadline, so unfortunately if I had more time I could explore more and possibly find the solution without help, but this time around, I am losing the battle. If you can please show me what goes into the out bang of readsf~ ?

I will be spending the remainder of the year doing an in-depth study of PD, but I just don't have time anymore for this particular project.
Much appreciated again.

Best wishes,

BTW - I have added some meters and used a "sub patch" to make the interface better for the users in the "speachbox." see attached - Now just need the file sequencer as discussed - thank you!

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/Speachbox.pd

Hi,
First of all I'd like to point out the goal of this forum (and many other similar forums). It's basically for asking for help in more or less general terms, meaning not asking someone to do your job. Pd has very good documentation which, if read thoroughly, can give great insight on how the environment functions. One ought to do deep personal research. Urgent deadlines are personal problems, not communal.
Anyway, enough of preaching. I mean it good anyway. I've attached a version that is likely to do what you want. Didn't test it, but logic says it does what it's supposed to.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/Speachbox(1).pd

BTW, don't know if you're already aware of these, but here are two tutorial sites that are very good for a kick off. I'd suggest to check them both.
http://www.pd-tutorial.com/english/

http://en.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/

alexandros, I can't thank you enough for your patience and help here. It has been a very daunting "baptism of fire". As you know, I received this project on late Friday afternoon, with no prior PD experience or knowledge. I have learnt an incredible amount. I understand the use of spigot now - it is a switch! If you don't think of the "order" of things in the way PD does it, it can be very confusing and that is why I needed help with this project.

Nevertheless, I am to embark on a very serious in-depth exploration of PD now. I did a brief literature review yesterday evening, and have ordered several books, including downloaded the Floss manual (I was not aware of this one this weekend).

I have sent an email to your URL.

Thanks again.