Hi folks

We here at the University fo Florida, Digital Worlds Institute have created a 3D campus map that runs on a three pipe SGI Onyx reality monster. We use unwinder to joystick through the campus model. We are able to write map data to a file specifying location points in the map. What i would like to do is read this data (maybe by socket) from the SGI to control an audio surface/grid in Max/msp so that we may add spatialized audio to our map in 5.1. I am currently controlling the spatialization with a slide mate midi controller, spitting out audio tracks through an emi 2|6 for the 5.1.

I would like to use pd IRIX to receive the OSC messages before they are sent out to msp. I have a working version of pd 34.3 on the Reality Monster, will OSC work in that build?

Can someone give me basic of how to get started getting the messages from the SGI into pd via OSC?

Pat

cheers~

Patrick Pagano Research and Development Assistant ScorpionRT Operator Digital Worlds Institute University of Florida http://www.screwmusicforever.com/SHREESWIFT/Silica

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On Wed Jun 25 14:18:27 EDT 2003, Frank Barknecht fbar@footils.org wrote:

Hi,

Zitat von Olaf Matthes olaf.matthes@gmx.de:

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abel.jerome@free.fr schrieb:

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I've seen some patches PD on websites recommanded on the

mailing list and I'm a

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little disappointed. Just 10 or 15 patchs on the Web, it's a

joke?

No pun intended, but: You need to look harder. I alone have about a dozen on my site. Not all really useful, but some (mostly angriff and sseq) are very useful and I know that people do use them. Those two were specifically created to be re-useable on many occasions.

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Tell me more about the PD communauty, maybe the main purpose

is to create

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externals?

There is no main purpose. I'm sure, everyone does different things. For example a lot here use Pd for graphics, but I don't.

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At the moment I'm trying to reuse one of my own patches I did about a year ago but I realised very soon it would have been easier to create a new one from scratch. (At least my) patches are growing all the time and get 'dirty'.

Hey, I can feel with you, Olaf ;) I would like to publish some more patches but most are too dirty, so I refrain from doing it and only publish what's understandable without much explanation. Well, thinking about this, I should sometime remove some older patches from my site, because they're such a mess...

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[I don't know where creativity ends and 'presets' start. One of the very good things about Pd is that everyone has to create it's own patches. Like in the old days with analogue synthesizer _without_ factory presets and 'custom memory banks' where everyone had to make ones own sound. It helps you to create your individual sound because this sound is based on your individual patches.

I'll second that. Maybe the purpose, if there is such, of the Pd community is to help with "how do I do this and that". This can be done with sharing patches, but can also be done by simply answering the questions, that were asked.

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But, yes, of course, we need example patches showing how to use the objects. And, me culpa, I sometimes do use Pd's example patches as a starting point for my own stuff.]

But we all do! IMO Pd's example patches are a wonderful introduction to Pd and sound synthesis in general. I remember, though, that some of them were over my head when I started using Pd (some still are) but I can come back to them and still learn something new. Also people should really read the html-docs. But it's a known fact: Users don't read documentation. And developers don't write it. :)

ciao

Frank Barknecht _ ___footils.org_

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