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For this example to work correctly you will need to first download the pinger abstraction from the example "A beeping test sound" and save it with the filename "pinger.maxpat" somewhere in the Max file search path.

As you get more involved in programming audio, it's likely that you'll want to have multiple sound possibilities available in your program, that you can switch on and off as needed. You might want to take a look at MSP Tutorial 5: Turning signals On and Off to learn about some basic ways of doing that. However, that chapter leaves out the following pretty crucial issue.