Accessing superdirt samplebanks inside supercollider

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Which is the quickest and most convinient way to access a sample loaded on SuperDirt in SuperCollider and save it in a buffer to do all kind of crazy stuff with it?

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In SC run d = ~dirt.buffers;. Then d is a dictionary. E.g. to access 3rd bd sample just type d[\bd][2]. Also u need to start Tidal for it to work.

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thanks very much this is defently quick and handy :slight_smile:
I was wondering, why does tidal needs to be running to acess the samples?

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Hey @Francesco_Corvi obviously TidalCycles does not need to be running to access the samples. Just a quote from the SuperDirt README:

[... originally designed for the TidalCycles environment. SuperDirt is a general purpose framework for playing samples and synths, controllable over the Open Sound Control protocol, and locally from the SuperCollider language.]

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Yes this makes totally sense, probably @qaciwq meant something else

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How would you convert a buffer obtained in such a way to mono? Generally I would use .numChannel but here it seems a bit more tricky.

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my bad. meant SuperDirt...

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I just have different synths for mono or stereo. Like bufplay1 and bufplay2. Curious if anyone has some way to make every buf in collection mono or stereo.

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Here is an example of what I was trying to do:

({	var rate = 10, buf, env;
	buf = d[\bd][0];
	buf = buf.bufnum;
	env = EnvGen.ar(Env([0, 1, 0.2, 0],[1, 2, 8]));
	TGrains.ar(2,Impulse.kr(10), buf, 1, env, env);
}.play)

It doesn't give any error but doesn't play because TGrains only works with buffers of a single channel. I am missing this super simple step.