RAM

Basic RAM recording into buffer~

To record a sound into RAM, you must first allocate/designate a place in RAM into which to record. The buffer~ object creates a named buffer in memory large enough to store the specified duration of audio data. In this example, the buffer is named "theholdingplace" and holds up to 60,000 milliseconds (one minute) of audio. The incoming audio signal from the adc~ object goes into a record~ object that refers to that memory buffer.

Getting a sound sample from RAM

The buffer~ object holds audio data in RAM as an array of 32-bit floating point numbers (floats). The fact that the sound is loaded into RAM, rather than read continuously off the hard drive as the sfplay~ object does, means that it can be accessed quickly and in various ways, for diverse audio effects (including normal playback).