DiskIn stream in audio from a file

DiskIn.ar(numChannels, bufnum, loop )

Continuously play a longer soundfile from disk. This requires a buffer to be preloaded with one buffer size of sound. If loop is set to 1, the soundfile will loop.

See also: PlayBuf, BufRd

s.boot; // start the server

(

SynthDef("help-Diskin", { arg bufnum = 0;

Out.ar(0, DiskIn.ar(1, bufnum, 1));

}).send(s)

)

OSC Messaging Style

// allocate a disk i/o buffer

s.sendMsg("/b_alloc", 0, 65536, 1);

// open an input file for this buffer, leave it open

s.sendMsg("/b_read", 0, "sounds/a11wlk01-44_1.aiff", 0, 65536, 0, 1);

// create a diskin node

s.sendMsg("/s_new", "help-Diskin", x = s.nextNodeID, 1, 1);

s.sendMsg("/b_close", 0); // close the file (very important!)

// again

// don't need to reallocate and Synth is still reading

s.sendMsg("/b_read", 0, "sounds/a11wlk01-44_1.aiff", 0, 0, 0, 1);

s.sendMsg("/n_free", x); // stop reading

s.sendMsg("/b_close", 0); // close the file.

s.sendMsg("/b_free", 0); // frees the buffer

Using Buffer (Object Style)

b = Buffer.cueSoundFile(s, "sounds/a11wlk01-44_1.aiff", 0, 1);

x = { DiskIn.ar(1, b) }.play;

b.close;

// again

// note the like named instance method, but different arguments

b.cueSoundFile("sounds/a11wlk01-44_1.aiff", 0);

x.free; b.close; b.free;

// loop it (for better looping use PlayBuf!)

(

p = "sounds/a11wlk01-44_1.aiff";

a = SoundFile.new;

a.openRead(p);

d = a.numFrames/s.sampleRate; // get the duration

a.close; // don't forget

b = Buffer.cueSoundFile(s, p, 0, 1);

f = { DiskIn.ar(1, b) };

x = f.play;

r = Routine({

loop({ d.wait; x.free; x = f.play; b.close( b.cueSoundFileMsg(p, 0)) });

}).play;

)

r.stop; x.free; b.close; b.free; // you need to do all these to properly cleanup

// cue and play right away

(

SynthDef("help-Diskin", { arg bufnum = 0;

Out.ar(0, DiskIn.ar(1, bufnum));

}).send(s);

)

(

x = Synth.basicNew("help-Diskin");

m = { arg buf; x.addToHeadMsg(nil, [\bufnum, buf])};

b = Buffer.cueSoundFile(s,"sounds/a11wlk01-44_1.aiff",0,1, completionMessage: m);

)

x.free; b.close; b.free; //clean up