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Peripatitis
Member 		posted 10 November 2014 18:26         Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I am making a simple patch that should select each sample in a folder, place it in a specific speaker and play it.
So far i've been using the multi file disk player and a replicator to route and play these samples.
It started out as a simple solution to playback my multichannel files, but now i want to expand this a little bit further and do a few things.
Before that though i need to be able to do two things:

a) get the number of samples in a folder automatically, to use it in the replicator
as the number of instances
b) get the duration of each sample to use in the specific instance. (in my first patch i didn't really care since all files had the same duration).

Now there must be some message that returns the number of files of specific type, but i don't know where to look.
Is this a smalltalk issue, or a capytalk ?

Further down the line i think it would be cool, to pan each file between two speakers and use some sort of time-related modulator for this. Somehow offset the spatial image.
It should pretty easy to do.

Thanks !

** corrected sound attached in further down...

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Administrator 		posted 10 November 2014 18:45         Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
You can obtain the number of samples in folder by sending a message to one of the samples in the folder, for example:

'Kyma:Samples 3rd party:EDG:werewolf.aif' sampleFileNamesInSameFolder size

To access the duration of each sample, you could use:

((?VoiceNumber - 1) of: ('Kyma:Samples 3rd party:Strangewave Sound:SwS - 075 Vacuum Packed.aif' fileNamesOfSameTypeInSameFolder collect: [:nm | nm fileDuration s]))

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Peripatitis
Member 		posted 10 November 2014 19:41         Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

SpatializeSamplesFromFolder.kym
 
Thanks guys
This works nicely.

Attaching a new version with the changes..

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