Pd-list March 2006

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RE: PD-list Digest, Vol 12, Issue 4
by Mark Havryliv 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hey Chuck, Can you get a tuning dump from scala for this? Or do you change the scale in realtime during performance of the sequencer. A scala tuning dump can detune each note number, although I suppose that will only work if you are using a less than 12 note scale... at least that wouldn't stuff up the tuning on more than one channel. cheers, mark > >No, nevermind! I'm using MIDIYoke, and it looks like I may be able to >control Reason live. >Now that I think of it, this won't work. I only have 16 channels, and to >control reason involves assigning different channel inputs to different >modules. And microtonal polyphony means a different note on each channel. >Unless there is a way to reassign which Reason module is on which channel >using remote MIDI control. > >What a headache...

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RE: OT dual booting OSX/unbuntu
by tasty radish 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

I am planning on doing this myself. However, not with unbuntu. >From what i understand, while it is Unbuntu makes it easy to install, there is a trade-off that you toil with later. For instance, Unbuntu has *big problems* with audio programs (programs which are beyond simple file players). This is NOT the case with Debian-- which once up an running, is pretty smooth when it comes to sound apps. Not to mention Debian has a really, really easy way of updating and installing apps. So, check into this question of which Linux for audio, further. - Andrew "If we cannot discuss We cannot think If we cannot think We cannot invent" - Frank Little >Subject: [PD] OT dual booting OSX/unbuntu >ok, i am going to try to dual boot OSX with ubuntu linux. >opinions please --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze.

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no menue on os x
by Max Neupert 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

i've asked this a while ago but got no response. here's the question again: chris mentioned that in the CVS (I guess the GemCVS) this is solved. how do you control to show/hide the menue in the GemCVS version? my guess didn't work ;) [menue 0( | [gemwin] m.

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JI Sequencer
by Chuckk Hubbard 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

I'm going to put this out for people to try. It is a microtonal just intonation sequencer, that does not use scales or any set of notes from which to choose. I apologize ahead of time for bugs and parts that are hard to understand. I designed it for my own use, so some things may not be intuitive. I moved the main sound engine from the individual voice modules to the main patch, so there would only be one instead of 8. It is only active when changes are made to one of the 8 voices. So you should put all the files in a folder, then run JI.pd. Type in "badcheese" into the File symbol box on the upper right, and hit Load. Open pd score if it's not open. If you press PLAY or, in Windows, Ctrl-i, it should playback. If you open "biggiantworms" in the same way, you have to assign the presets first; click the vertical radio box next to the green square and press the 4th radio box under "preset assignment"; click the box next to the gold and click the 3rd preset assignment box. Purple= 2nd preset, gray= 1st preset. You can open pd mixer and adjust the volumes and pans of the voices. Each channel also has a very primitive compressor with which I'm not yet satisfied, that you can access by opening the channels on the upper right of the mixer. I'll gladly answer questions, though I suspect it might make more sense for me to write up instructions, because there will probably be lots of things that don't make sense. But I'm going to be late for rehearsal, and thanks to a problem I'm having I wasn't able to prepare the piece I'm supposed to bring: My transpose button changes all the ratios of the notes to a different tonal center. 1. Open Bad Cheese. 2. Press "Beginning" under "EDIT THE SCORE." The leftmost note should turn red. 3. Press "Next Note" until some note that isn't 1/1 is highlighted. 4. Press "TRANSPOSE TO SELECTED" to the right of "EDIT THE SCORE." All the notes should change to show their relationship to the note you highlighted, which should become 1/1. You can step to the next note and do it again. This way you can sequence simple figures without doing all the math. Hit "RESET TO 1/1" to return to default (1/1 = middle C = 261.something). Now for some reason, if you open Big Giant Worms and try the same thing, it gets overflow errors before converting the entire score. I went through a hell of a time getting this to not happen before, but now it is again. Check out "JInext". It is designed to simply skip past everything in the score that isn't a note, and pause occasionally to let the system catch up. But Find Error says this is where the overflow is coming from. After this, half my score is transposed and half isn't, so it is useless to save it. Can anyone suggest a surefire method to keep this from ever happening no matter how long my scores get? Thanks. -Chuckk

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Re: [PD] RE: OT dual booting OSX/unbuntu
by Patrick Valiquet 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Hey: >This could be useful to look at >http://ubuntustudio.com/wiki/index.php/Welcome%2C_Musicians%21 Yup, check that site out. I have Ubuntu breezy and OSX running on my powerbook and was able to follow the instructions at the ubuntustudio.com site to get a nice low-latency kernel and good pd performance. Only problem from a newbie perspective was the fact that it did require patching and compiling the kernel, but the instructions would probably be pretty clear to anyone with a reasonable grasp of the command-line. The audio performance is excellent... PD runs about twice as fast as it does on OSX. The only hardware problem is that the built-in microphone is not recognized (which I don't really consider that big of a problem ;-) ) Warning: Gem and pdp will be most likely be extremely slow on any ppc linux. AFAIK ATI's proprietary drivers do not support any of their apple video cards. Perhaps someone knows of a work-around but I just stick to OSX for video work. >However have you considered using http://www.demudi.org/ ? unfortunately demudi is x86 only. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...happiness equals freedom equals personalities!

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reading data structure array's in tabread4~
by alexandre matheson 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Greetings, Is there a way to get tabread4~ to read a data structure array? I figured a work around but it feels a little like hammering in a screw cause I can't find my screwdriver. regards, Alexandre Matheson amatheso(a)alcor.concordia.ca iChat: ealx(a)mac.com

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Re: OT dual booting OSX/unbuntu
by Patrick Valiquet 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

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Re: Re: [PD] RE: OT dual booting OSX/unbuntu
by bigswift＠cox.net 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

well i tried the tester LIVE ubuntu last night on a few machines to see how it looked etc. It would not install on my home desktop probably due to the fact that i installed some fancy video-card for GEM stuff a few months ago. On my g4 ti-book, it installed perfectly and even found and configured my airport card, sound worked fine and it seemed sleek. i cannot re-format it until after april, so i did a a simple pc install with an old pentium machine. pretty good. that apt-get is pretty handy Patrick Pagano Digital Media Specialist University of Florida Digital Worlds Institute 352-294-2082

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disabling portaudio
by Max Neupert 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

hi list, i try using hcs Pd 0.38.4-extended-RC8 on a mac mini. i get errors because of the portaudio tries to open the audio-in. i guess it's because the mac mini has got no audio-in. -noaudio does not help -noportaudio was my guess but it does not seem to exist. how to disable portaudio? the console message is: Error number -9997 occured opening portaudio stream Error message: Invalid device ID

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OT dual booting OSX/unbuntu
by bigswift＠cox.net 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

ok, i am going to try to dual boot OSX with ubuntu linux. any caveats tips or help beforehand is appreciated they have a live CD that seemed to work fine on my machine so i figured i might make the leap. opinions please Patrick Pagano Digital Media Specialist University of Florida Digital Worlds Institute 352-294-2082

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