16 Mar
2007
16 Mar
'07
7:07 p.m.
On 16/03/2007, at 18.44, David Powers wrote:
Hello,
Is it possible to somehow convert back and forth between integer and binary in PD?
My idea, is to represent simple drum machine style rhythms as binary numbers. [101010001011]. Ok, so if this were a float, it would be trivial to do a common task and shift the rhythm left or right. I think, that other rhythmic variations would also be quite fast to implement using this system, you can do binary math instead of list operations which should be much faster, I assume.
I think you want to have a look at the bitwice operators &,&&,|,||,<<
and >>. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise_operation
Hope this helps.