Pd-list August 2020

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Binural externals
by José Rafael Subía Valdez 30 Aug '20

30 Aug '20

Hello List, a long time ago, maybe 10 years, I do remember finding a couple of binural options as externals for PD, now with covid, I have been interested in this again, but to my surprise, I did not find much of anything. There are a couple of projects like ssr, or CW_binaural~ which either I do not find the links to download or I run into compilation errors. any suggestions for me to check out? cheers -- José Rafael Subía Valdez www.jrsv.net

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why pd looks better in mac?
by Alexandre Torres Porres 30 Aug '20

30 Aug '20

Hi there, someone on the facebook group switched to a mac and got shocked on how different it looks (for the better). I couldn't reply why that's it how it is and I can't find the facebook discussion anymore, but I hope you know what I mean. There's some aliasing and cords in mac are pretty much a straight line, whereas in the others you have a bit of a ladder depending on the angle. I'm really curious on why it happens and what's preventing things looking the same. thanks

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Inlet - Unexpected Behaviour
by matthew brandi 30 Aug '20

30 Aug '20

Dear people In my role as village idiot, I am asking whether the string "fwd" in a message has a special meaning to inlet. Naively, I was expecting inlet to pass the string to the subpatch, but it seems not to. See example patch attached. Outlet behaves as I was expecting and inlet will pass "symbol fwd". Clearly, I have failed to grasp something simple, but what? In case this is version specific behaviour, I am using Pd 0.51.0 on Linux. All the best m -- matthew brandi

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Re: [PD] scaling problem
by Max 27 Aug '20

27 Aug '20

Please always keep the discussion on the list by replying to the mailinglist (or "all" if you don"t have that option). I do think the issue you are describing is fixed in 0.51 https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1084 The other issue can be resolved. Which distribution and version are you using? Max On 27.08.20 18:59, Allister Sinclair wrote: > I'm using *Pd 0.50.2* > It does have Edit > Font menu. > That makes boxes bigger but it's not scales uniformly. > All the graphical elements (bang slider etc) stay tiny AND changing font > size messes up old patches because everything is crushed together and I > have to clean up the patches again. > > Is this resolved in Pd 0.51.1? > > The reason I'm not trying Pd 0.51.1 right now is because it brings me to > another problem: > It is not available with *sudo* *apt install* on linux yet, and last > time I compiled pd from source myself, it worked but I couldn't double > click pd files anymore nor access pd from desktop and I don't know how > to install properly so that doesn't happen. > > Le jeu. 27 août 2020 à 18:10, Max <abonnements(a)revolwear.com > <mailto:abonnements@revolwear.com>> a écrit : > > Which version of Pd? > > As for 0.51.1, you can go to the Pd window and in the Edit menu, there > is a Font entry, here you can change the GUI font size. (Make sure you > do it from the Pd window, not a patch window, where the same menu > exists, but only changes the patch font size) > > However, the prompt windows and file choosers will still be minuscule. > > I filed an issue earlier > https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1137 > > > On 27.08.20 16:02, Allister Sinclair wrote: > > Hi pd list, > > > > So the short version of my question is: PD is tiny on my system, > what > > can I do? > > > > I have a Xfce desktop on a small laptop with HD screen (1080). > > Everything is tiny because not scaled properly, but I can make it > okay > > by changing dpi size. This makes everything okay except puredata... > > Puredata is still tiny, I'm guessing because of Tcl/Tk. This is a > > problem because if I just change the font size it messes up all > my tidy > > patches (hundreds of them) plus it doesn't take effect on > graphics. The > > zoom factor is either 1 or 2. 2 is huge. I wish there was some > way to do > > fractional scaling. Do you know a workaround? In gui plugins > maybe? (I > > wouldn't know how to program a plugin to change that), or is this > > behavior hard-wired to pd? > > Thanks > > > > -- > > Allister > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pd-list(a)lists.iem.at <mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at> mailing list > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list(a)lists.iem.at <mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at> mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > -- > Allister Sinclair

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scaling problem
by Allister Sinclair 27 Aug '20

27 Aug '20

Hi pd list, So the short version of my question is: PD is tiny on my system, what can I do? I have a Xfce desktop on a small laptop with HD screen (1080). Everything is tiny because not scaled properly, but I can make it okay by changing dpi size. This makes everything okay except puredata... Puredata is still tiny, I'm guessing because of Tcl/Tk. This is a problem because if I just change the font size it messes up all my tidy patches (hundreds of them) plus it doesn't take effect on graphics. The zoom factor is either 1 or 2. 2 is huge. I wish there was some way to do fractional scaling. Do you know a workaround? In gui plugins maybe? (I wouldn't know how to program a plugin to change that), or is this behavior hard-wired to pd? Thanks -- Allister

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robotcowboy on Livestream Friday Aug 28
by Dan Wilcox 27 Aug '20

27 Aug '20

Howdy all, I will be performing this Friday as part of the "Is it working?" festival with robotcowboy, my one-man-band wearable performance project which heavily uses Pd: > The series of festival performances, called »Permutations II«, will present various attempts to reimagine the roles of the performer and the audience in the field of live electronic music. They take place within the context of the exhibition »Is it working?«. > > The artists performing are Yannick Hofmann, Dan Wilcox, Ansambel PRSA and J.B. Arthui: 55H22. The pieces by the ZKM | Hertz Lab's Yannick Hofmann and Dan Wilcox will be live-streamed from the ZKM Kubus to the festival and online audiences. We are performing live this Friday August 28th at 8:30pm (Central European Standard Time) via a YouTube stream from the Kubus at the ZKM in Karlsruhe. As with a live concert where the doors open beforehand, the stream will start 15 minutes earlier at 8:15pm. You are invited to join us at 2:15pm Eastern, 11:15am Pacific, etc: https://zkm.de/en/livestream <https://zkm.de/en/livestream> or https://youtu.be/PfYO5xGpBn4 <https://youtu.be/PfYO5xGpBn4> For more info, see https://zkm.de/en/event/2020/08/live-performances-is-it-working <https://zkm.de/en/event/2020/08/live-performances-is-it-working> See you on the wire... -------- Dan Wilcox @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>

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detect existing [text define xxx] object
by João Pais 27 Aug '20

27 Aug '20

Dear list, is there any smart way of detecting if a [text define xxx] already exists? I'm trying to create multiple abstractions dynamically, but wanted to avoid having "multiply defined" errors. The detection would have to be sent through messages, as an output to the console won't help with the patching. (of course, removing the "multiply defined" errors isn't a good idea) Joao

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Gem 0.94 on Windows ? ...
by oliver 26 Aug '20

26 Aug '20

Hi, dear List ! Is anybody here succesfully using Gem 0.94 on Windows ? I mean complete with image and video support ? Since Gem 0.94, i was not able to run any image or videos anymore (it used to work fine with 0.93) My setup is: PD 0.51 (64bit) / Gem 0.94 (64bit) / Windows 7 (64bit) In an attempt to monitor error messages according to IOhannes' suggestions, i think that the most important errors i get are those: GEM: load plugins 'film' in 'C:/Program Files/Pd/extra/Gem/' GEM: pattern : C:/Program Files/Pd/extra/Gem/gem_film*.dll GEM: dylib loading file 'C:/Program Files/Pd/extra/Gem/gem_filmAVI.dll'! GEM: GemDylib failed: #87: The parameter is incorrect. GEM: GemDylib throwing: DLLerror(0x57)The parameter is incorrect. GEM: library loading returned: DLLerror(0x57)The parameter is incorrect. GEM: dylib loading file 'C:/Program Files/Pd/extra/Gem/gem_filmDS.dll'! GEM: GemDylib failed: #87: The parameter is incorrect. GEM: GemDylib throwing: DLLerror(0x57)The parameter is incorrect. GEM: library loading returned: DLLerror(0x57)The parameter is incorrect. and so on ... Gem tries to load all .dll files from its directory and fails with "#87: The parameter is incorrect." and "DLLerror(0x57)The parameter is incorrect." Maybe it's my old Windows 7 that is not supported ? ... In LINUX/Debian 10 everything works fine ! (can't test OSX atm, sorry) Thanks for any suggestions or reports ! Best Oliver

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deken and pd -noprefs
by cyrille henry 25 Aug '20

25 Aug '20

Hello, Is it the desired behaviours that deken did not find externals when used with "pd -noprefs" ? It look like deken propose only already downloaded externals, but not the one on the server. I suppose a part of deken is not loaded when pd is started with -noprefs flag, but is that really what we want? (if not, I'll fill a bug report) cheers Cyrille

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How to create an array in Ofelia
by Alexandros 24 Aug '20

24 Aug '20

I'm trying to write some Lua scripts in [ofelia] and I don't know how to create an array, since arrays in Lua are written with curly brackets, which are not allowed in Pd. For example, I'd like to create an array like this: local tab = {} and then populate it like this: for i=1,161 do tab[i] = ofRandom(0,255) end Any ideas?

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