I know this is probably a very simple query but I've looked through the documentation and haven't found the answer.
I am programming a twenty osciallator additive synth with each partial being represented as a version of an identical abstraction. I can pass fixed numbers to each instance of the abstraction (e.g. I type "partial 5 6.33", and retrieve the numbers with "float $1" etc) in the object call.
The problem is that the partial weightings are varied by the user in real-time so I need to pass this variable instead of a fixed number. There are twenty weighting values and the correct one has to be passed to the relevant instance of the abstraction. I initially tried a send object with the corresponding receive for each partial embedded in the relevant abstraction. I soon realised that changes to the abstraction wouldn't be saved so this method wouldn't work.
Do I have to create twenty separate abstractions or is there a way round this?
Hope this makes sense, Al.
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Hallo, Al Riley hat gesagt: // Al Riley wrote:
I am programming a twenty osciallator additive synth with each partial being represented as a version of an identical abstraction. I can pass fixed numbers to each instance of the abstraction (e.g. I type "partial 5 6.33", and retrieve the numbers with "float $1" etc) in the object call.
The problem is that the partial weightings are varied by the user in real-time so I need to pass this variable instead of a fixed number. There are twenty weighting values and the correct one has to be passed to the relevant instance of the abstraction. I initially tried a send object with the corresponding receive for each partial embedded in the relevant abstraction. I soon realised that changes to the abstraction wouldn't be saved so this method wouldn't work.
Do I have to create twenty separate abstractions or is there a way round this?
Hope this makes sense, Al.
I'm not sure if I do exactly understand your problem, but you can not only pass floats, but also everything else, especially a symbol. You can use this symbol as a send/receive name:
[abstraction sendname]
and inside [abstraction] you'd use a [receive $1] to recieve what's coming in over "sendname".
Another cool trick is what I call $0-passing: If you need to know the $0 of a parent patch, you can just pass it as an argument as well. So use:
[abstraction $0]
and inside use: [r $1-receiver] In that case, the $1 inside is the same number as the $0 in the parent and you have a receiver that is defined by the parent and still local to that.
I use this a lot in the rradical patches.
Regarding the saving of state, this is a common problem with several approaches. Obviously I prefer mine, which is in the pd-CVS as Memento, also described in a PDF-document there.
You can read it here (one line): http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pure-data/abstractions/rradical/doc/rr...
Ciao
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How can I distinguish a mono sound file from a stereo file with SOUNDFILER.
I made an abstraction that loads sound files:
- I would like SOUNDFILER to write mono data in 2 arrays as it does with
a stereo sound file. It should automatically play mono samples on both channels.
Any ideas?
Tom
tom wrote:
How can I distinguish a mono sound file from a stereo file with SOUNDFILER.
I made an abstraction that loads sound files:
- I would like SOUNDFILER to write mono data in 2 arrays as it does with
a stereo sound file. It should automatically play mono samples on both channels.
Any ideas?
Tom
You could try this loadwav~ abstraction: (http://iem.kug.ac.at/mailinglists/pd-list/2004-03/020245.html). Instead of soundfiler, it is using readsf~ (to avoid dropouts). When complete silence is detected the audio switches over to write on both channels. It has worked well for me in performance.
Take a look at 3.audio.examples/D07.additive.pd in the Pd docs, (under
the Help menu, select Pure Documentation...). It does exactly this.
.hc
On May 12, 2004, at 9:43 AM, Al Riley wrote:
I know this is probably a very simple query but I've looked through the documentation and haven't found the answer.
I am programming a twenty osciallator additive synth with each partial being represented as a version of an identical abstraction. I can pass fixed numbers to each instance of the abstraction (e.g. I type "partial 5 6.33", and retrieve the numbers with "float $1" etc) in the object call.
The problem is that the partial weightings are varied by the user in real-time so I need to pass this variable instead of a fixed number. There are twenty weighting values and the correct one has to be passed to the relevant instance of the abstraction. I initially tried a send object with the corresponding receive for each partial embedded in the relevant abstraction. I soon realised that changes to the abstraction wouldn't be saved so this method wouldn't work.
Do I have to create twenty separate abstractions or is there a way round this?
Hope this makes sense, Al.
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