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Recording An Audio File: 01 1 S Audiofile Record.m Pat

1. This document introduces recording audio files using the sfrecord~ object in Max. It describes how to create an audio file, activate the DSP to start recording, and use the toggle or "record" message to start and stop recording. 2. It notes that once you stop recording, you cannot re-record to the same file and must create a new one. 3. It also briefly discusses reading sound files directly into computer memory for faster access than from disk, though memory space is more limited. Loading files into memory allows quicker switching between sounds compared to reading from disk, where mechanical movement is required.

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Recording An Audio File: 01 1 S Audiofile Record.m Pat

1. This document introduces recording audio files using the sfrecord~ object in Max. It describes how to create an audio file, activate the DSP to start recording, and use the toggle or "record" message to start and stop recording. 2. It notes that once you stop recording, you cannot re-record to the same file and must create a new one. 3. It also briefly discusses reading sound files directly into computer memory for faster access than from disk, though memory space is more limited. Loading files into memory allows quicker switching between sounds compared to reading from disk, where mechanical movement is required.

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1.5 Practice Paragraph 1.

5 - Introduction to working w ith sampled sound

RECORDING AN AUDIO FILE

The object t hat enables us to record sounds to disk is called sfre c ord - . Open
the f ile 01_ 1S_audiofile _record.m ax pat (seen in f igure 1. 56) to t ry it .

1) First. crea te 2) After that , activate the DSP by


an aJd io file Clicking on the "startwindow" message

3) Fina lly, record : 1 starts


recor ding and O stops it
...
pll asor- 660 -
record500
As an alternative, you can start
rec ording using the record
message, and include a duration
in milliseconds. In th is case,
recording will stop automatica lly.

... Once yo u've stopped record ing, it isn't


...
sfreco rd- 2 possible to re-rec ord using the same
file. You must create a new one .
( 0.
sfrecord- outputs elapsed
$t\lrtwindow
recording time in milliseconds
s~ .....
dac -

Fig. 1.56 The f ile 01_ 1S_audiof ile_record.maxpat

We can create an audio fi le on d isk by sending the comma nd "open" to t he


sf record- object. It is also possible to select the forma t to be used for the f ile
at th is po int : the possible choices match those that can be read by s fplay-.
Once we've created the audio fi le that will soon hold o ur sound, we still have
two steps to complete: f irst, we must click on "startw indow " to activate the
two triangle wave oscillators that w ill prod uce the signal that fl ows into the tw o
channels of the sfr e cord- object, and secondly, we must activate recording
wi th the toggle. (We can both start and stop the recording using th is con-
tro l.) Recording can also be activated by provid ing a du ration in milliseconds
when you send the "r ecord" comma nd. (This method circumvents the need to
manually stop recording.)

READING A SOUND FROM A MEMORY BUFFER


We've seen how to read and write sounds to and from disk, but it is also pos-
sible to load a sound file directly into compute r memory, in order to have faster
access than wou ld be possible from disk. (Access to disk dr ives is slow because
mechanical movement must occur whenever reading files from a disk.) For
example, if we wanted to load many diff erent sounds into a patch and then
move qu ickly betw een t hem, it wou ld be fastest to load all of the m into memory
and t hen hop back and fo rt h. The int ernal memory of a compute r, however, is
always more limited fo r space than its hard drive, and so for f iles that are very
long, t his technique wou ld not be reasonable. There is a tradeoff: if you wa nt
fast access, you' ll need to work w ith f iles t hat are short enoug h to be loaded
in memo ry, but if you want to use very long files (f iles that occupy more space
than you may have available in memory, o r which wou ld occupy the major part
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