Replying to myself again:
While I haven't gotten the broken patches working, I managed to recreate them piece by piece in new patches, doing some copying and pasting and some typing from scratch. (
One thing that I found confused me in copying and pasting is that I expected the pasted objects to appear at the mouse pointer location, rather than at the same ccordinates as in the window from which they were copied. While I could see the reason for this from a programming standpoint, I found it to be a problem, since quite often the paste happened outside the visible window. When that happened, until I caught on to what was happening, I sometimes pasted multiple copies, thinking that the first paste didn't work.)
Another thought: is there a listing anywhere of the characteristics of externals and other objects, showing the inlets, outlets, and global variables used in them? I'm envisioning something like:
inlet 1: signal: audio signal inlet 2: signal: audio signal inlet 3: number: mix amount values: 0: left signal only 100: right signal only outlet 1: signal: blended signal variable: number: foo_master: determines global level of bogosity
It would be good to have this info in something like the Pure Data Base. If no such collection exists, I could work on pulling together something like it over time as I learn PD (maybe in dull moments while I'm on tour over the next two months). ("cause I'm a tech writer, and I like collecting and writing up this kind of stuff :-] )
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 05:06:03PM -0600, Joseph Zitt wrote:
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 10:22:13PM -0600, Joseph Zitt wrote:
I seem to be stepping into all the weird stuff here...
For the past few hours, I can't seem to get any input via adc~, in places where it worked before and in test patches. The input works OK in the GNOME sound recorder (and I've also booted into Windoze and confirmed that it works there), but nothing seems to come in via adc~ objects in PD. Hooking it through snapshot~ into a VU meter and number box (adapting the test patch in 5.reference/snapshot~.pd ) I get no result from input, just the same low-level noise that I see when I'm not sounding.
Self-replying here: I see that the peak level meters in the main window do respond to incoming sound, jumping from the usual background levels of about 30 (unfortunately, I'm developing this in a noisy basement), but jumping to about 90 when I speak into the mic.
BTW, this is in RedHat Linux 7.2 with pd version 0.34
I may have missed something again...
(The more I work with PD and like it, the more I wish there was a solid manual for it. If I could afford it, I'd immerse myself in the software and write one from the existing sources and what I learn...)