I like the biscuit box. The thing is that we need enough USB and/or firewire ports for the device to be usable. I need at least two USB ports plus a mouse to control my patches. that's why i can't use a smartphone, for instance. Assuming that the device would be powerful enough, it'd be pointless to use it if i can't plug in my soundcard and my controller.

@ Alexandre: I don't think there is anything very interesting to share in my patch, as i stole most of it from the work of people here and there. I have a simple synthesizer (using sigmund to get the pitch), a pitchshifter (thank you, Miller Puckette!), an auto arpeggiator (using sigmund again, i capture the different notes i want to have in the chord one by one, and they are played back randomly by a set of tabread~), and a digital reverb (based on freeverb).
So there is nothing very interesting at all, i m afraid.
Maybe this: i have recently found out that a frequency shifter could make a surprisingly good phaser effect for a guitar. It's the closest i've come so far to the old Univibe pedal that Hendrix used on songs like Machine Gun or Hey Baby. It's quite different from the sound of an Electro Harmonix Small Stone and its clones. It's very wet and shiny. Simply beautiful. It also works very well on analog synth sounds (the univibe was originally created to simulate a Leslie cabinet).
But then again, i also stole the frequency shifter from the DIY2 package (was it made by Hardoff?).
So i'm not doing anything really amazing for the viewpoint of a resonably proficient Pd user. The point of this post was just to say (if needed) that Pd "sounds good" and that it is definitely stable enough to use it live during an entire gig (provided that your patches are written well enough...).

I quite obviously use the hid object to command my patch with my home-made foot controller. 


Pierre
2010/5/3 Andrew Faraday <jbturgid@hotmail.com>
that sounds like an amazing piece of kit

From: pedro.lopes@ist.utl.pt

Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 17:21:15 +0100
To: pimassat@gmail.com
CC: pd-list@iem.at

Subject: Re: [PD] Gigs with Pd

>I m just hoping that sometime soon we'll have a piece of hardware >that's small and powerful enough to run Pd in realtime and I'll have >the perfect gear (perfect for me).

http://www.bluemelon.org/index.php/Products/BM7505_BluePD_programmable_Pure_Data_router

Never tried it though... seems interesting.


On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Pierre Massat <pimassat@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone!

There was a discussion not too long ago about suitability of Pd in a live context (off the "smoother audio" thread i think). I just wanted to say that i use Pd everytime i play a gig with my band as a super multi effects. I have never experienced any crash in Pd, and the sound is just excellent, and everybody keeps asking me what the hell are these pedals and this software and how the eff do i make all these sounds, and well, i just think this is the future. I m just hoping that sometime soon we'll have a piece of hardware that's small and powerful enough to run Pd in realtime and I'll have the perfect gear (perfect for me).
Just wanted to share this.

Cheers!

Pierre

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