Reserve a channel

Is there a way to reserve a channel, so that it will only be used if you specifically play a sample on that channel (reserving a channel = preventing the "play sample" action to play a sample on that channel, yet "play sample on a specific channel" would be allowed to - it would make channel allocation so much easier)?

Just consider it - without a channel reservation feature, you'll have to use "play sample on a specific channel" for every sample in the game, just to prevent random sounds being played on one or two channels where I will use sample-independent volume modulation.

Also, it is possible to play a sample from an expression, without having to store it as an external file?

I think this is a bit to far off-track for MMF2 development, i don;t think its possible unless you write your own engine to check for that.

You can't.

I'll add the first suggestion to the wish list, the second one was already suggested some time ago.

Yves.

Whilst on the topic if you "play sample" will it always play it on channel 1 or the first channel that's free? (or a unique unindexed channel...) ?

Yes, the first channel that is free. If no channel is free, it overwrites the first sound channel that hasn't the "uninterruptable" option.

Yves.

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Just to add a similar question - is there a way that I'm missing to play a sample from a file (using an expression) without having to specify a channel?

I think you can't. I did it like this for some reason, but I don't remember why...

Yves.

I know the feeling, I had the same thought about most of my senior honours project.