thanx for sending me your files! But - hope you're a patient with a pd newbie (i first had to learn to how to use the terminal in osx to install pd...) - how do i have to use or install these files?
i heard about this 2 objects here: http://iem.kug.ac.at/mailinglists/pd-list/2002-08/000199.html so they say: [midiclkin]: it is under constructing now... [midirealtimein]: recieve F8 to FF, but it only works on Windows...
you can find it here: http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~tohk/pd/
Anyway, i experimented with this objects under osx and [midiclkin] doesn't recevies any message at all (well, still under construction) and [midirealtimein] only gets lots of zeros (well, only for windows?). And i couldn't find any docs about these 2 object. only this:
[midirealtimein] <deffloat> Methods: list Outlets: first: float ; 2nd: float
and the same for [midiclk]
Well, not really helpfull for a newbie :), but after experimenting with [midirealtimein], i could get some sort of external timing (i think the list of zeros i get with it are in fact the F8 and FF messages, but pd (under osx) doesn't really recognize it).
But, hasn't anybody wrote a abstraction or patch for external midisync, yet? i thought that this would be a quite common task. Or could anybody give me some hints, how to do it (under osx)?
thanx for your help!
Urs
Am 27.02.2004 um 02:58 schrieb Larry Troxler:
Uh-oh. I'm afraid I might have misled you guys - I wasn't using the midi clock at all, but rather what I changed in the parser was to add the ability to parse song position pointer ($F2).
I'm attaching my changes anyway, in case they're usefull - they're against the pd-0.36-devel version, so I don't know how current they are. But I don't have time at the moment to clean this up unfortunately.
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 11:59, Urs Jeltsch wrote:
[midiclkin]: doesn't seem to work under osx [midirealtimein]: i only get a lot of zeros
How are these supposed to work under PD? Where did you find docs for these?
Larry Troxler
<s_unix.c><s_unix.c.orig><x_midi.c><x_midi.c.orig>