playing multiple .mp3 audio files

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Hello, question about working with muttiple .mp3 files.

I’m trying to do some simple music visualization with canned audio from .mp3 files. I found this cool repository here: cambridge-mt.com/ms-mtk.htm

These files are each ‘track’ broken out to different files, so vocals in one .mp3, guitar in another .mp3 etc.

My question pertains to how to play the audio all together.

I’m reading them in w/ basic ‘audio file in’ , then playing them with ‘audio device out’ but since there are a few, playing multiple ‘audio device out’ nodes at once seems to choke TD. It can’t do it.

Piping all the audio streams into a single ‘audio device out’ node doesn’t seem to work either.

Is there some preferred way to ‘mix down’ all the .mp3 so they will play well?

thanks in advance!

jsunandmax

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You should use only 1 Audio Device Out CHOP.

Under your Help menu, click Operator Snippets and see the Audio Dynamics CHOP example.
Also see Audio File In CHOP examples.

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And you can use a Math CHOP to add all the channels together, aka mix them. Then send them to a single audio device out CHOP. See the above suggestions to check the OP Snippets

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thanks folks, super helpful that worked.