Pd-list October 2017

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Re: [PD] Pd meetings in Berlin?
by Dan Wilcox 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

Yup. I'd come now and then from Karlsruhe... > On Oct 10, 2017, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-request(a)lists.iem.at wrote: > > we're considering restarting the Pd meetings in Berlin, but wanted to know > how many users and interested persons would like to take part. > Are you a Pd user in Berlin or a beginner interested in Pd who would like > to meet other users and sit down to discuss Pd-related topics, or just > patch among others? Then let us know - if there are enough interested > persons, we can give this a go. Please, consider that this is not intended > to be an open ended workshop for beginners, but a gathering of like-minded > Pd'ers to share ideas, patching methods, tips, etc.. > > Best, > > Marco Donnarumma and João Pais -------- Dan Wilcox @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>

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why not Purr Data?
by Ali Momeni 09 Oct '17

09 Oct '17

Hello all, I've been playing around with the latest Purr Data from: https://agraef.github.io/purr-data/ and, well, I love it. The entire experience of working with Pd is much more pleasant. I'm compelled to ask the group, especially the Pd Vanilla users among us, the following simple question: What reason is there NOT to use Purr Data? Am I missing something? Subtle disadvantages? Missing functionality? Reliability? Performance? Thanks, ali

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runtime failure with externals written in c++ on windows 10
by Settel Zack 09 Oct '17

09 Oct '17

Hi all, On windows 10, I am no longer able to load externs compiled from c++ sources. When I try, the pd console reports that the extern in question is not found. It is not a path problem.The extern’s setup method is not called. These c++ externs used to load and run before on windows 7, a few years ago. I tried running an older version of pd from that time, but the problem remains. I tried recompiling the externs on my windows 10 machine, but no luck. I even tried using the pd-lib-builder makefile utility, but no luck either. The problem: In windows 10, with the latest pd vanilla, I can compile and load the C version of the extern, helloworld.c . I can also compile the c++ version of the same extern, helloworld.cpp (with setup() wrapped as extern C). However PD is unable to load the resulting helloworld.dll extern. Has anyone had any dealings with this kind of trouble recently ? cheers.

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Re: [PD] Best way to make file paths relative to the parent patch ?
by Jérôme Abel 08 Oct '17

08 Oct '17

I remember the [tof/path] object from the "tof" library. It seems to work on all plateforms. j.

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Gem: Place point light inside Geo?
by Peter P. 08 Oct '17

08 Oct '17

Hi list, I am trying to make a small solar system in Gem (attached draft). I am wondering how I can put a point light source inside a Geo (eg. sun) and make it shine through that geo. For now I am placing the light source between sun and earth, which looks ok unless I change the camera position. Placing the light inside the sun geo and reducing alpha values of the sun geo does work for alpha values of 0.5 (values above _and_ below 0.5 will damp the light) but will also make the sun transparent. How can I make the sun shine? Thanks! Peter

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No ALSA or OSS sound with Debian 9.1 (32 and 64bit) on an "Up Board"
by Ingo 08 Oct '17

08 Oct '17

Hi everybody, I'm trying to run my rather complex Pd patch on an Up Board (x5-Z8350 CPU,32GB eMMC, 4GB RAM). The board has the RPi formfactor but is much more powerful. The up board comes with ubilinux (64bit debian version especially for the Up Board). After spending a lot of time with ubilinux and the normal debian9.1 (64bit) I couldn't stop it from constantly crashing when I opened my patch - for some unknown reason. As long as I was using ubilinux sound (alsa) was working at least. Not so with debian, though. After giving up with the 64bit OS I installed debian 9.1 (32bit) and it's running perfectly stable as before with my old amd hardware. No more crashes! All externals (except for "iemlib/mp3play~" and "toxy/tot" [not to be found anymore]) are working as expected. However, with the normal debian alsa is NOT giving me any sound! Then I compiled the kernel with oss but oss is not producing any sound either. I installed alsa-utils, alsa-base and alsa-tools-gui. I removed pulseaudio and I made sure alsa-utils would get started on startup (which it doesn't by default). Here is what I get from pd when turn on alsa: ALSA input error (snd_pcm_open): No such file or directory ALSA output error (snd_pcm_open): No such file or directory The (external USB-)sound card does show up in the drop down menu of Pd's audio settings for selection, though. So it is regognized both by pd and the operating system. I tried several different USB sound cards with the same result. Here is what I get when I try to open alsamixer from the LXTerminal: error when opening mixer: No such file or directory (original in German: Fehler beim Öffnen des Mixer-Gerätes: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden) When I use portaudio I'm actually getting sound but it is very quiet as the sound output is turned down by the system during start up. I can't find any way to turn the volume of the sound card up, though since I cannot open any mixer. Does anybody have an idea how I can get alsa to work? Debian tells me that "alsa-utils" and "alsa-base" is already installed with the newest version (1.1.3-1 and 1.0.27+1). Thanks, Ingo

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Best way to make file paths relative to the parent patch ?
by Jérôme Abel 08 Oct '17

08 Oct '17

Hi, To explain myself, i have to describe a practical example (http://reso-nance.org/public/pd-malinette/test-paths.png) : - you write an [audio-sampler] abstraction in "abs" directory, which load soundfiles - you write a "main.pd" patch where you put this abstraction in the project directory - you want to load the "data/snare.wav" sound file with a message connected to the abstraction Result : the context of the abstraction is in "abs" directory, so it can't find "data/snare.wav" (there is no "abs/data/snare.wav" file), instead we have to write "../data/snare.wav" relative to the abstraction and not the parent patch. A common solution to deal with that is to add [ggee/getdir 1] inside the abstraction, to get the absolute path of the file starting from the upper level (parent patch). But if the abstraction is inside another abstraction, it has to be [ggee/getdir 2] and so on ... But how find the right depths of the abstraction ? The abstraction doesn't know his context of use. I think I will put a [ggee/getdir 10] or greater to be sure to get the parent patch level, but maybe someone has another solution, a vanilla solution ? Related PR : * https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/150 + j.

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Re: [PD] How to build a Pd project like an application ?
by abel.jerome＠free.fr 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

Hi, I choose the "Egregore" patches way to share crossplatfom projects : - a startup script (.sh for mac and linux, .bat for windows) - pd from Miller Puckette Web site (compiled for linux) - ~20 externals download with Deken from 3 differents computers : win7/8/10 + mac osX + ubuntu ( ++ gaga ++ ) - project : malinette + tclplugins First attemps here : http://reso-nance.org/public/pd-malinette/test05/ If someone want to try... Best Jérôme

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Purr Data 2.3.3 released
by Jonathan Wilkes 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

Hi list, Purr Data 2.3.3 is out. * improve performance of ggee/image * allow loading jpegs in Gem under Windows Releases here: https://github.com/jonwwilkes/purr-data/releases/tag/2.3.3 Report bugs here: https://git.purrdata.net/jwilkes/purr-data/issues -Jonathan

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saving parameters in "audio" file
by richard millig ＠ selma 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

dear list, i'm saving different parameters in an array to load them later again. when i close the patch and open it again later sometimes the values stay in the array, sometimes not. so i did try to save the array in an "audio" file with [soundfiler], but this will "normalize" my values. do you have a workaround or maybe a completely other solution for this problem? thank you best richard

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