[Clam-devel] audioFile trigger

[Pau Arumi]

En/na Xavier Amatriain ha escrit:
> I was planning on implementing a simple Karplus-Strong as another
> classical example of sample by sample processing. For doing that I was
> planning on simply reading a noise burst as the excitation signal but...
> 
> I realized I cannot do that with a simple AudioFileReader, what I would
> need is an AudioFileTrigger. Here is its basic functionality to see if
> it makes sense (or there is something similar I am not aware of):
> 
> - Processing is configured with file path
> - In ConcreteConfigure, all the audio file is read into memory and
> cached.
> - In Do(), zeros are written out until a "trigger" control is received
> - Then the cached audio is played until the end and zeros are written
> after that
> - Receiving a trigger at any time means rewinding until the end.
> 
> Of course one of the side-effects of such a processing is that it would
> be easy to create a sampler-like instrument.
> 
> Comments? Ideas?

Yes, very useful and easy to implement.
I'm for calling it something like SamplerPlayer: the "audio file"
is very secondary here, IMO.

pau