String storage and sound caching

[Hezkore]

Two problems... guess i first should explain what i'm making...
I'm making a music game, you basically play music... and all the instruments are external WAV files (or OGG) and everything works just fine, i play the instruments and the sound effect is played (not using any extension for the sounds, just normal "Play Specific Sample in Channel" or something like that), but when there's 5-6+ keys pressed at the same time the game stops for a few milliseconds and then continues as normal.
I've done some testing and it seems that the WAV files aren't cached. So i'm wondering if there's an extension that can load WAV files into the memory and then play them once needed?

Also, is there a way to store strings in an array with instead of X and Y positions the slots are named.
Normal array is like 'X10, Y5 = "Hello!"', what i need is something like 'Text="Hello!"'.
I've tried using the alterable string on an active object but there are too few slots.
Anyways hope i explain my problems good enough!

[DJFuego]

you could just put all the samples into a list object and save that list file. I made a pretty cool app called minisynth 2 a while ago I also coded in a simple recording function to save tunes played with it. I think every 5th of a second a new line was rwitten and if a key was pressed then it put that key in the list.
Check it out on my website.

[Hezkore]

Yeah well i've stored all the samples in a list, but that's just the names, i want the actual file to be stored.
The game also plays background music which is also played with the ingame instruments so there are lots of WAVs being loaded all the time, i need to load the WAVs once and be able to replay them whenever needed.

[Joshtek]

Data storage: Named variable object, INI or XML.
Pre-caching external files: I don't think so.

[Hezkore]

Cheers mate, the Named variable object was perfect. (How could i have missed it? -_-)
But the biggest problem is still the lag when playing a lot of sound effects. In MMF1.5 there was an extension named something like Direct Sound 2 or whatever, and it could load sounds into slots and then play them when needed so they were cached and ready when used and lag-free. :P
Nothing like that released for MMF2? (Or on its way)

[Yves]

Nothing like that released for MMF2? (Or on its way)

Just for info, a "Preload sample" action is in the todo list for a future build, but this list is so huge, I don't know when it will be done. :crazy: