Re: [sc-users] How to SynthDef a non-stop player of random samples???

[Julian Rohrhuber <rohrhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you have the soundfile information anyhow, just send the synths so 
that they behave as if they knew the previous message. This makes 
things much simpler than implementing more sequencing on the server.

> Well, I think so.
>
> Just to provide context, these are fixed position sounds in a 
> virtual environment.  I already have control for loudness and 
> surround placement based on the position of a virtual observer.  The 
> observer position is sent to each synth via an OSC message.  Each 
> synth knows its (unchanging) position and the current observer 
> position and calculates it's own loudness and surround angle.
>
> If I went the pattern route, which might actually work now that I 
> think about it a bit more, how would a new synth know the last OSC 
> message?  I wouldn't want every new synth to be in the wrong place 
> until a new OSC message was received a fraction of a second later.
>
> Phil
>
> On Jul 23, 2009, at 11:06 PM, Josh Parmenter wrote:
>
> > Do you always want to play the entire sample?
> >
> > josh
> >
> > On Jul 23, 2009, at 8:57 PM, Philip Galanter wrote:
> >
> > > There is some other stuff going on now, and I have code that does 
> > > the other things I need...but that code uses an oscillator synth 
> > > rather than a sample based synth.  I had thought as the final step 
> > > I could simply replace the oscillator based synth with a synth 
> > > that plays a series of random samples and I'd be done.  If I can't 
> > > do that then I have to change a number of other things as well.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to use the sample end to trigger a delay, and then 
> > > at the end of that delay trigger playBuf again?
> > >
> > > Phil
> > >
> > > On Jul 23, 2009, at 10:41 PM, Josh Parmenter wrote:
> > >
> > > > It is more difficult to envelope it off though.
> > > >
> > > > Josh
> > > >
> > > > On Jul 23, 2009, at 8:13 PM, Andrew C. Smith wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Yeah, the basic advantage to triggering individual synths is just that
> > > > > you have that extra downtime where the synth isn't eating your CPU.
> > > > > Also, if you free the pattern (in case you later decide that you DO
> > > > > want to fade things out) it won't click the synth off but rather will
> > > > > just not instantiate a new one.
> > > >
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