Hi Guenter + the list,
Guenter put up a new beta of PDa + Tcl/Tk libs for the IPAQ yesterday, so I tested most of the afternoon.
And here's the bugs/comments of the day, as I discovered them. I'm using the latest PDa, Tcl and Tk packages from: http://gige.xdv.org/pda/release/familiar/ with Familiar 0.8.1 on an HP IPAQ 5550, in case anyone's interested.
Check the dates rather then the versions of the packages against what you have installed, as Guenter updated them yesterday without changing the version numbers.
I would tentatively recommended upgrading for anyone who's running it right now due to better oscillator sound, math operations and conversion routines. Major Tcl/Tk bug under IPAQ which piled all the text in the upper left corner is fixed. However, I've found the GUI in general more prone to crashing on "problem objects" (i.e. tables, numberboxes and [vcf~]) than before...see below for details.
BUGS CHECKED TODAY/COMMENTS:
- [dbtorms], etc: You note: "conversion routines (dbtorms,mtof, etc) are
only available for control flow", but I'm not sure what you mean by this...
- I just checked [dbtorms], [rmstodb], [mtof] and [ftom] in the latest
versions and they appear fine.
- GUI window Audio Peak Meters: non-functional until DSP is switched
off, then they flash a red "100".
- GUI number boxes: will freeze GUI/crash PD if updated too frequently.
Output of single [env~] object is sometimes enough to do this! Is there anything native in PDa to limit the refresh rate of the numberbox?
- GUI tables/graphs: updating graphical tables also risky. [metro 1000]
to a [tabwrite~] could be enough to crash PD.
- [vcf~]: You note: "vcf~ could be improved in quality". Agreed! Sound
improved from previous version, which was largely unresponsive to frequency changes, but this object has possibility to freeze GUI + kill audio at unknown times. Prints "0.000141" to the terminal for no known reason.
[lop~], [bp~] and [hip~] function as expected.
[routeOSC]: does not create.
[dumpOSC]: creates as expected.
[sendOSC]: does not create with following error:
/usr//lib/pd/extra/sendOSC.pd_linux: /usr//lib/pd/extra/sendOSC.pd_linux: undefined symbol: OSC_errorMessage
[netsend] + [netreceive]: work as expected.
[vd~]: does not create.
Other delay/table objects such as [delwrite~] + [delread~] and
[tabwrite~] + [tabread~] don't seem to be different, except as you have noted: "tabread~ and tabwrite~ are indexed in milliseconds instead of samples".
- You might also mention in the docs that [soundfiler] exports length in
ms not samples here as well.
*Probably the interpolation of [tabread4~] is not available here in Fixed-Point-land?
- [sfread~] + [sfwrite~]: you write: "The readsf and writesf objects are
replaced by sfread and sfwrite", but you might clarify that these need tildes in the names: [sfread~], [sfwrite~].
- Lots of clicks n' cuts when using the GUI with oscillators,
etc. But you knew that already as well! OTOH, it seems to respond nicely to the -rt flag, making operation much much smoother.
- Filters and (especially) oscillators sounding much better than before.
[osc~] in particular gave a very nasty, distorted rectangle wave in the previous version I tested: https://puredata.info/Members/derek/PDa.osc.1.png/image_view_fullscreen
- Also, you might include my directions for remote X11 forwarding in
your FAQ.
- Will check audio recording with [sfwrite~] later on. Audioplayback
with [tabread~] works as expected, haven't checked [sfread~] yet.
- Object requests:
- [makesymbol], [date], [time]: Zexy
thx + best, derek