RAPID SEQUENCE of audioclips on a Mac

[Geoff Canyon]

At 1:45 PM -0600 1/7/02, J. Scott Saults wrote:
>In Revolutions on the my Mac, at least, the results of a simple series of 'play' and 'wait' commands, like the following, are FAR too slow and erratic. (Of course, without the waits, the successive play commands simply interrupt each other, because Revolution cannot, to my knowledge, cue the sounds.)
>
>## soundList is just a list of names of the audioclips
>put 250 into onsetToOnset
>Repeat with i = 1 to 5
>	put milliseconds() into onsetTime
>	play line i of soundList
>	wait until milliseconds() - onsetTime > onsetToOnset
>end repeat
>
>Neither getting the milliseconds after the 'play' command, nor using 'wait until the sound is "done"' works any better in my tests.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions for how to accomplish this better?
>
>Many thanks in advance for any new ideas.

Two possibilities:

Check out the playStopped message. You would do something like this:

global gWhichSoundNext,gMySoundArray,gNumberOfSounds

on mouseUp
  put 1 into gWhichSoundNext
  play gMySoundArray[1]
end mouseUp

on playStopped
  if gWhichSoundNext < gNumberOfSounds then
    add 1 to gWhichSoundNext
    play gMySoundArray[gWhichSoundNext]
  end if
end playStopped
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Check out the send to...in command. you would do something like this:

global gMySoundArray, gNumberOfSounds, gPlaySoundMessage

on mouseUp
  MySoundPlay 1
end mouseUp

on MySoundPlay pWhichSound
  play gMySoundArray[pWhichSound]
  if pWhichSound < gNumberOfSounds then
    send ("MySoundPlay" && (pWhichSound + 1)) to me in 250 milliseconds
    put the result into gPlaySoundMessage
  end if
end playStopped
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regards,

Geoff