Pd-list April 2002

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Soundfiler
by David Sabine 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Hello, I'm curious about the differences between "Soundfiler" and "readsf~". I've been relatively unsuccessful with both of these so far, yet it seems that what I'm trying to do is quite simple. I'd like to play back many mono wav files simoultaneously. Each file might be as long as 5 minutes or shorter than a few seconds. I've created and edited most of the wav files in Cool Edit Pro and saved them as 16-bit PCM wav files. When I try to play them using readsf~ I get a "Bad header" error in PD's terminal window. And using soundfiler, I can read small-ish files into an array but the -resize flag fails when I try to read longer files (approx 3 - 5 minutes). I'm assuming first that I might responsible for the errors; so I suppose my real question is: WHICH object is more capable, flexible, stable, and all-round BEST for playing wav files? Many thanks Dave Sabine

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still slow array display?
by pix 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

hi there, sorry to be one of these guys that just complains about bugs when he clearly hasn't even bothered looking into it himself, but are there plans to do anything about the slow array display in the new pd test releases (higher than test4 i think)? it seems to be trying to draw every sample of the array to the screen (even when there is only enough pixel-realestate for 100 samples or so)... so if you have a "big" array (like 1 second, 44100 samples) then this takes a lot of cpu just being on the screen. i did a search of the archive (i haven't been paying much attention to this list recently), but couldn't see any recent mention of it... really i just want to know if this is a "known problem".. is it technically possible for someone to make an "arrays, the old way" external? :) i don't really fear change... honest :) pix.

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Re: [PD] [annouce]Xgui (previously called "seg")
by Andre Schmidt 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

i made a fast test with the examples in "doc" with win2k and there seems to be no problems... well, i get these errors with 04.sliders [on load] (but it still seems to work) error: $1: argument number out of range error: trigger: can only convert 's' to 'b' or 'a' ... you might be able to track this down from the Find menu. error: $1: argument number out of range error: $1: argument number out of range error: $1: argument number out of range i was hoping for this kind of "extern", just to draw 2d lines.. (ofcourse those sliders&co are very welcome 2, specially the knob) btw. can i change the background color of the canvas (where the lines are drawn) ? -andre ps. i love that physics ----- Original Message ----- From: "Damien HENRY" <damien_henry(a)libertysurf.fr> To: "Andre Schmidt" <andre(a)vju.info>; "PD-LiST" <pd-list(a)iem.kug.ac.at> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 7:59 AM Subject: Re: [PD] [annouce]Xgui (previously called "seg") It sould work on Win32 too Just read the install.txt files I've test it on win2000 and it is running well. Please tell me if it doesn't run on our computer. I'll try to help you to solve the problem. Cheers, Damien. Le Lundi 29 Avril 2002 00:58, Andre Schmidt a Ã©crit : > sounds/looks very interesting, please post if some1 compiles it for > win32!!! > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Damien HENRY" <damien_henry(a)libertysurf.fr> > To: <pd-list(a)iem.kug.ac.at> > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 12:39 AM > Subject: [PD] [annouce]Xgui (previously called "seg") > > > Dear list. > > > > I'm very please to annouce a new release of seg. It is now called Xgui > > cause > > > there is now some other objects (arc, rect, text). > > > > This project became mature and it's now have enougth feature to do some > > usefull stuff. Mostly if you whant an alternate way to drive your patch, > > make > > > some writen music (create an experimental sequensor), or do some realtime > > visual art (no bipmap or video or 3D, just vector graphics in 2D) > > > > main: http://dh7.free.fr > > Download : http://dh7.free.fr/seg/xgui_0.06.tar.gz > > screeshots : http://dh7.free.fr/seg/screenshot.html > > > > Cheers > > Damien.

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building reference pages for pd classes
by Krzysztof Czaja 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

hi all, you might remember a pd-list thread from some time ago, about various ways of making user documentation for Pd and externals (conforming to DocBook, using XML, avoiding decorations, etc.) Has anybody made any progress since then? I am asking, because I am going to clean up my clumsy preprocessing scripts used for building html pages, and thought about extracting a portion dealing with ``class reference pages'' into something more suited for general use. The input format I am using is not very flexible, because it is mainly meant to be simple to parse and quick to type. There are ``structural tags'' for marking sections of a reference page, and ``inline tags'' used inside of a paragraph for text formatting. Section tags (must start at first character of a line) are: ".t" for main title, ".h" for running header (printout) or window title (html), ".b" for object box, ".d" for general description, ".a" for argument description, ".m" for method (left inlet) description, ".i" for other inlet description, ".o" for outlet description. There is no ``see also'', nor ``examples'' section, yet. Inline tags are single-letter escape sequences. Is such mark-up very disgusting? Krzysztof

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AW: [PD] freesym
by Thomas Grill 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

I just experimented a bit... In principle PD handles the lots of symbols quite well (i generated about 3000000 different ones), but naturally symbol retrieval becomes slow then. In one occasion PD crashed but this seems to be attributable to Win2K (which was non-responsive afterwards). The size of the symbol hashtable is only 1024 by default, it should be increased in cases with many symbols. Btw. (as i now understand how gensym works...) it seems to be fairly easy to include a function into pd that frees a symbol. The only difficulty is what to do with the s_thing pointer attached to a symbol? Free its memory as well or not? greetings, Thomas > > >>And, on the other hand, is it possible to free symbol > definitions from the > > >>symbol space? > > >> > > > > > > gensym("") +? > > > >could you explain? "" is already there, in the first slot of the > >hashtable. It is generated in mess_init(), and used as a `null' > >symbol referenced by `s_' (otherwise you seem to be right) -- > > have not looked at pd very. may be. > > as recall pd. max. etc experience problems when too many symbols > are generated. > true +?

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Re: [PD] [annouce]Xgui (previously called "seg")
by Andre Schmidt 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

sounds/looks very interesting, please post if some1 compiles it for win32!!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Damien HENRY" <damien_henry(a)libertysurf.fr> To: <pd-list(a)iem.kug.ac.at> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 12:39 AM Subject: [PD] [annouce]Xgui (previously called "seg") > Dear list. > > I'm very please to annouce a new release of seg. It is now called Xgui cause > there is now some other objects (arc, rect, text). > > This project became mature and it's now have enougth feature to do some > usefull stuff. Mostly if you whant an alternate way to drive your patch, make > some writen music (create an experimental sequensor), or do some realtime > visual art (no bipmap or video or 3D, just vector graphics in 2D) > > main: http://dh7.free.fr > Download : http://dh7.free.fr/seg/xgui_0.06.tar.gz > screeshots : http://dh7.free.fr/seg/screenshot.html > > Cheers > Damien. > >

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Re: [PD]
by Yves Degoyon 28 Apr '02

28 Apr '02

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Just a little comic releif
by Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 28 Apr '02

28 Apr '02

Especially for those tinkering with the PD GUI! from integer: Hello, My name is Netochka Nezvanova. I am the Director of Leaves and Petals at the Steim Institute in Netherlands, flamboyant scientist and young girl. I have developed a very flexible and elastic realtime/non-realtime audio library for MAX entitled WTO.0+74. Unlike all others, WTO.0+74 isn't based on PD (ie. it isn't licensed of course) and obviously it is less linear than PD/MSP because Miller Puckette is an (aging) man whilst I am a (young) girl. I mention aging and young for they reflekt reality but the absence of, would not the balance of springiness greatly alter - a man may give life for a dekade or so (and Miller Puckette has), but a woman gives beautiful life throughout her lifetime (I have only begun). B. Bogart ---------

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Re: [PD] OS X pd-0.35-test21 binary prob?
by tigital 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

me again. ...as so often happens, I forgot to type the following, which was in Install.txt: To run pd, either type the full pathname as in /home/me/pd/bin/pd, or else if you've chosen "make install", just type "pd". duh! tanx for da midi, jamie -- --

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structuring cyclone into hammer and sickle
by Krzysztof Czaja 27 Apr '02

27 Apr '02

hi all, I have split cyclone into hammer and sickle. The hammer starts with five simple midi classes (flush, midiflush, midiformat, midiparse, and sustain), the sickle takes all my simple msp clones tested so far: http://suita.chopin.edu.pl/~czaja/miXed/externs/cyclone.html Krzysztof

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