way to go!
I was just checking out Memento for the first time yesterday and I was bummed when I realized local saving wasn't working yet... and now it does!
I have it running in a pretty hairy set of patches that act like a synth/effect rack, with many instances of the same abstraction (things like $1.$2-insert-vol are necessary, which now work thanks to Miller's
0.41), and it is great to be able to save a chain of synths and effects and move with the ability to recall them in a different rack later.
Luke, Frank, Thomas, kudos!
cheers,
Rich
p.s. once some bugs are fixed, I'll try to tidy up the rack and post it... but that's going to take some work still.
Hi all,
Thanks to Thomas Grill and Frank Barknecht I am happy to release a
"preview" of Polaroid, for Memento.
Polaroid is a local state saver for Rradical patches. This means that
you can save file-based "presets" of your objects, even when they are
part of a larger structure. You can also copy and paste settings
between instances of objects.
Finally, it has an odd little system for setting a "default" file that
will be loaded on an object's startup - this can be easily replicated
with manual loadbanged "lddir <filename>" messages to the originator,
but it is included here as a perhaps more convenient method. Such a
default file can be nicer than storing a ton of initialization
messages in your patch, since it can be separately maintained from the
main patch.
Polaroid required modifications of Memento's [originator] and
[rradical.state] objects, in order to properly implement partial pool
saving. I have included these modified versions with an "sft" prefix,
so to use Polaroid as is you'll need to replace [originator] in your
patches with [sft.originator] (which references [sft.rradical.state ],
so make sure that's in your path). (To be clear, this functionality
was already there from Frank's work on the same thing, I just made it
work thanks to Mr. Grill's tips)
I've also included my version of careGUI, again, included here as
sft.careGUI. It adds separate load and save buttons, a selected file
display, global preset control, and an automatic "setsub 0" to
SET_ALL_RRADICALS on "Restore" (which I assume some may not like, I
don't know - it occurs before the [outlet] bang so it can be
overridden).
Polaroid and sft.careGUI also add one more global send called
SAVE_PREP that is banged just before a save operation. I use this to
dump arrays (which I use as "multisliders"/analog sequencers in some
patches) via lists into commun objects so that they are saved with the
rest of my patch, maybe you can find other uses.
Dependencies:
Obviously, memento.
List-abs
Zexy
[splitdir] from ggee for the "Selected File Displays" (not essential)
Known Issue:
Polaroid's Copy and Paste use /tmp, so that will not work on Windows I
suppose. Anyone have ideas for this? If you really want to use that
feature before I learn the answer, change the relevant entries at the
bottom left of [pd gui] in polaroid.pd (from /tmp to c:\ for example)
Ok, shall I stop talking now? Yes? Why did I write all those help files?
Sorry. One more thing - I call this a preview release because I hope
Frank will have time to check these out and give his approval or
admonishment! Perhaps I'm doing something very silly in my patches.
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