Heya, been trying to get my head round using [makefilename] and I've hit a bit of a snag. I can record and name different sound files based on variable integers, but unfortunately when I attempt to listen to them it only plays the latest one that I recorded - the others exist as .wav files, but they are 'blank', and cannot be played. This happens both in and out of pure data. Help would be greatly appreciated!

sequencer_sampler.pd

This is my patch so far.

@Jamestocher

The 'rec' subpatch is used for recording and the 'play' subpatches are used to trigger sound files.

Hi,

The empty wave files are created because every time you slide through a number in that rec subpatch, you are opening a file, and [writesf~] always create an empty file as soon as it's asked to open something. But if you then record a sound, all is working fine.

To avoid creating a bunch of empty files (or erasing previously recorded ones), use the cold inlet of [int]:

Hope this helps. Cheers!
Gilberto

That helped a lot, cheers!