You should be able to specify a folder of files and have them be concatenated (with or without optional arguments) rather than manually joining individual pairs of buffers.
To be honest, that feels like a feature-creep too far – at least to do in Max / SC – as we’d have to introduce filesystem access etc. @danieleghisi has suggested that a command line interface would be useful: this would need to work with the filesystem instead of buffers, so such a thing might be possible there (although something like Sox probably already does this).
Does this patch fulfill your current needs?
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Yup, that does it!
I only mentioned it as that’s what I imagined the external would be for in the first place.
Well, this object has sort of evolved a bit by accident: it was originally for helping PA make the help files, so more orientated to mixing than joining. It’s wild that it’s the object that’s getting so much attention, really. For me, it’s teetering on the edge of being usable and if people value being able to do these things, we should come up with a much better interface before this stuff goes public.
applying window functions or short fades to beginning and end of the source buffer before copying to the destination might be another useful feature
If windowing is needed, it can be done in many other objects after loading (hirt has one for instance) - I think I will vote that this object keeps doing what it does: sum 2 buffers to a 3rd one. With that and clever user-scripting, we have a new feature in max. Granularity of code is important and i think that sampling rate conversion and enveloping can be done elsewhere.
@rodrigo.constanzo Hi rodrigo, the ears library I’ve posted in the other thread should solve this problem. Look at the sample patch “concatenatefolder.maxpat”. Hope that’ll help.
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Daniele, this is great!!!
Just one quick question for the concatfolder patch. The very last sound in a folder seems to be the first element in the new buffer. From there on all other files are from the beginning.
The right side of the screen shot is the original folder. I added a bach.reg to see the output from
bach.path2llll
Hi, I am away from keyboard, but it may be that the file system doesn’t sort them properly. That happened on filesystem change of OSX.
Put a bach.flat and a bach.sort before the ears.fromfile and that should solve it…