I'm just spent several weeks teaching PD and ran into many questions that I could not answer at all.
- in what cases is a table drawable? I thought previously
that it depended on the resolution of the array, but apparently not. I can sometimes draw in a table that contains 65000, but sometimes not. Can someone explain?
- in the arrays examples, there are some messages that can
be sent, such as sinesum and cosinesum, to fill a table. Are there any others? I could not find any. If there aren't any others why is that, is that from lack of need or because of a particular difficulty in implementing such things? I'm thinking in particular that something like the gen routines in Csound would be invaluable.
- I have never used the text editor in PD, and a student
asked me what it was for. Looking at it, I realised that I don't have a clue either. It certainly does not do what I thought it would. Anyone care to explain what can be done with it?
Thanks!
- martin
hi martin
- in what cases is a table drawable? I thought previously
that it depended on the resolution of the array, but apparently not. I can sometimes draw in a table that contains 65000, but sometimes not. Can someone explain?
arrays are always drawable, as far as i know. but you have to somehow begin drawing at the graphical line of the array. if you just click in the window, the array does not automatically jump to the mouse position.
- in the arrays examples, there are some messages that can
be sent, such as sinesum and cosinesum, to fill a table. Are there any others? I could not find any. If there aren't any others why is that, is that from lack of need or because of a particular difficulty in implementing such things? I'm thinking in particular that something like the gen routines in Csound would be invaluable.
i don't know about the implemented functions of the array-object, but there is a big external called vasp, which can do some window-functions and envelopes. get it at http://www.parasitaere-kapazitaeten.net/vasp.
- I have never used the text editor in PD, and a student
asked me what it was for. Looking at it, I realised that I don't have a clue either. It certainly does not do what I thought it would. Anyone care to explain what can be done with it?
for example if you have big messageboxes (for initialisation of patches, or whatever) you can edit its content (shortcut ctrl+t) with this editor. you can also copy and paste with other text-editors, which can be useful sometimes.
marius.
I read:
- in the arrays examples, there are some messages that can
be sent, such as sinesum and cosinesum, to fill a table. Are there any others? I could not find any. If there aren't
normalize
things? I'm thinking in particular that something like the gen routines in Csound would be invaluable.
the csound gen routines should be easy to port to pd, the only problem being the strange license that csound comes with.
regards,
x
hi Martin,
Dupras, Martin wrote: ...
- in the arrays examples, there are some messages that can
be sent, such as sinesum and cosinesum, to fill a table. Are there any others? I could not find any. If there aren't any others why is that, is that from lack of need or
guess so...
because of a particular difficulty in implementing such things? I'm thinking in particular that something like the gen routines in Csound would be invaluable.
the saol wavetable generators, being more or less a subset of Csound gens, are all in the 'vex_gen' Pd class from http://suita.chopin.edu.pl/~czaja/miXed/externs/vex.html not available without linux (or a compiler), though...
Krzysztof (not willing to maintain a project having no users out there)
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CK -
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Krzysztof Czaja -
marius schebella