Steve’s Stuff

At Professor Harrison’s suggestion, I looked at Zexy (a Pd external) to see if it’s multi-track recorder object would be useful. I still run into the problem of having to rewind the object once it plays through the sample. The object looks interesting for multi-track recording and playback, but it’s not really any better than readsf~ for my purposes. It would be faster to simply rewind a file as opposed to re-opening it as readsf~ requires, but it’s not significant enough to forgive the following hassle . . .

The Zexy object uses the .RAW format, whatever the heck that is. I’ve never seen it before. It’s always frustrating to me that Pd always wants a screwy file format in order to work properly. Sure, it’s got a wave and aif player, but some of the objects need bizarre codecs that are long sense gone. How hard would it be to figure out something standard and stick with it?

I’m going to go with the dueling readsf~ files tomorrow. Hopefully that will behave as I intend. More on this later.