PlayerSocket

a voice that is able to switch between different players.

when it switches to a new player, it sends .release to the old one.

a Patch with a \gate and an EnvGen will release. after releaseTime, it will be

sent .stop which will stop it and all its children.

a Patch with no \gate will not release, but after releaseTime it will be

sent .stop which will stop it abruptly.

the default releaseTime is 0.0 which will stop immediately.  

a releaseTime of nil will not send stop at all.  if you use an EnvGen doneAction of 2, the node will be ended when the gate goes down.  a PlayerNodeWatcher is planned to watch for this and stop all the children which would otherwise go on playing.

*new(rate,numChannels,round)

rate - all players should be the same rate

numChannels - all players should have the same numChannels

round - for qspawnPlayer

preparePlayer(aPlayer)

prepareAndSpawn(aPlayer,releaseTime)

spawnPlayer(aPlayer)

if you have already prepared the player

qspawnPlayer(aPlayer,releaseTime)

spawn at the next clock division

releaseVoice(releaseTime)

(

q = Patch({ Saw.ar(600) * 0.2 });

r = Patch({ Saw.ar(800) * 0.2 });

p = PlayerSocket.new(\audio,1);

p.play;

)

p.prepareAndSpawn(q,0.1);

p.prepareAndSpawn(r,0.1);

p.prepareAndSpawn(q,0.1);

p.prepareAndSpawn(r,0.1);

(

p.prepareAndSpawn(

Patch({ arg freq=400,gate=1.0;

Saw.ar(freq) * EnvGen.kr(Env.adsr(0.1,2.0,0.3,2.0),gate)

},[

rrand(38,70).midicps,

KrNumberEditor(1.0,\gate)

]),

1.0

)

)

p.releaseVoice(1.0);

//we are asleep now

p.isSleeping;

p.isPlaying;

p.free;

p.isSleeping;

p.isPlaying;

// too short time intervals is still catching it

(

q = Patch({ Saw.ar(600) * 0.2 });

r = Patch({ Saw.ar(800) * 0.2 });

p = PlayerSocket.new(\audio,1);

p.play;

Routine({

2.0.wait;

4.do({

rrand(0.01,0.2).wait;

p.prepareAndSpawn([r,q].choose,rrand(0.01,1.0));

});

2.0.wait;

p.release;

4.0.wait;

p.stop;

1.0.wait;

p.free;

}).play(AppClock)

)

see PlayerPool which is a subclass of this

As an input to a Patch

(

q = Patch({ Saw.ar * 0.2 });

r = Patch({ Saw.ar(800) * 0.2 });

p = PlayerSocket.new(numChannels: 1);

e = Patch({ arg audio; RLPF.ar(audio,200) },[ p ]);

e.play;

)

p.prepareAndSpawn(q);

p.prepareAndSpawn(r);

p.prepareAndSpawn(q);

p.prepareAndSpawn(r);

// if you know that you have prepared it

p.spawnPlayer(q);

p.spawnPlayer(r);

p.releaseVoice

p.insp

e.insp

p.synthArg

e.free;