Hi,

I have done patches for the iPod and helped Martin getting the thing up and running. Unfortunately we are still missing a convincing patch, something that shows the possibilities of PdPod. So we are really interested in anything you do with it, and also in the problems you encounter.

I think generative music on the iPod is a great idea ... and if we could create a community around it could really take off. Lets see, maybe some people get interested.

Greetings,

Günter

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, hard off wrote:

if i can get pd going on an ipod, i am so keen to do it...will read your info links now

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Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:

Hi all,

Cesare Marilungo wrote:

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If you're interested I wrote a post on my blog:

http://www.cesaremarilungo.com/blog/2006/01/08/pdpod-pure-data-on-the-ipod-o...

Or you can visit the wiki page on ipodlinux.org:

http://ipodlinux.org/PdPod

I would really like to get in touch with people interested in this hack.

This is very exciting stuff!

Is there a document that tells how to port existing generative patches to PdPod? I seem to recall PDa has some differences from Pd, like table indexing / range of numbers / etc, but I don't know the details.

How powerful are the various iPods? I don't own an iPod, so wouldn't be able to test my patches. Is there an iPod emulator (that runs at the same speed as a real iPod)? Better yet, is there an iPod emulator that comes with PdPod preinstalled?

Claude

Thank you to those who answered so far.

Claude, I've just started experimenting with this project. Recently, I compiled PDa for my linux box. You have to use PDa instead of the standard pure data to create patches for pdpod for the reasons you've pointed out. Apart from some limitations, there are also some difference in the way PDa handle samples.

And unortunately two of the four examples that Martin Kaltenbrunner made aren't working on my ipod mini. Martin promised me to check them when he will have time.

I don't believe there's an iPod hardware emulator. You can compile podzilla on plain gnu/Linux and test stuff into it. But there's no need for this since you can build and test patches on PDa. The only think you can't tell is if an iPod would have enough processing power to run a partucular patch.

c. www.cesaremarilungo.com