Re: [PD] New on ubuntu: where to go now

2008-02-04 Thread Yvan Vander Sanden
PSPunch wrote: Hi, I mainly use Ubuntu Studio 7.10 myself and figured I might have something to share. -- Debian/testing and Ubuntu Gutsy (Intel i386 processor) installs fine. Download it from, http://puredata.info/downloads it is the 3rd on the list. With Ubuntu 7.10, just double

Re: [PD] fftease for macosx universal?

2008-02-04 Thread Si Mills
hi punchnik, you can find it here (its an attachment towards the bottom of the thread) http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-1280-fftease-39 use the original help files from the ppc package I guess this should be made available on the original FFTease page, though I'm not sure why it

Re: [PD] New on ubuntu: where to go now

2008-02-04 Thread Yvan Vander Sanden
João Miguel Pais wrote: Hi, I'm, again, going to try to step into linux world, and see if I can do something more useful with it than visiting webforums this time. Great! How to get -1ms latency? Does Ubuntu studio makes a difference? Ubuntu studio has more audio packages to

Re: [PD] [OT] FOSS audio tools (was: sound for blender apricot opensource game)

2008-02-04 Thread Jamie Bullock
On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 12:51 +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote: OTOH, LADSPA plugins don't support customized guis, AFAIK, therefor there is no option to do something like jamin as a LADSPA plugin. IMHO, most LADSPA plugins might be good scientific applications, but definitely not for everyday

Re: [PD] [OT] FOSS audio tools

2008-02-04 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, marius schebella hat gesagt: // marius schebella wrote: Frank Barknecht wrote: Uhm, while Blender certainly is great, you aren't seriously trying to tell me you really think its shortcuts are intuitive, are you?!? ;-) how do you want to manage hundreds of commands intuitively? I

Re: [PD] optional argument in abstraction

2008-02-04 Thread João Miguel Pais
ah, I thought you want to print defaul_symbol and not symbol default_symbol, that's why all the extra stuff around. great! the [sel $1] did the trick. otoh, the route symbol does not do anything... here is what I ended up using... [loadbang] | [symbol $1] | [sel $1] | | |

Re: [PD] ~ signal greater than

2008-02-04 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 13:02 -0500, marius schebella wrote: hey, with the latest autobuild of pd-extended for macosx intel (20080117) and also with previous versions the signal comparators of zexy can't be created. I also don't see them in the zexy external folder. what is the trick to get

[PD] pd thunder

2008-02-04 Thread Andy Farnell
Any feedback appreciated (aesthetic criticism most welcome) on some designs done in Pd. http://www.obiwannabe.co.uk/sounds/effect-synthetic-thunder-21.mp3 http://www.obiwannabe.co.uk/sounds/effect-synthetic-thunder-34.mp3 http://www.obiwannabe.co.uk/sounds/effect-synthetic-thunder-57.mp3 If

Re: [PD] overall horrible performance in OS X

2008-02-04 Thread chris clepper
On Feb 4, 2008 11:16 AM, bsoisoi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've attached an example patch sample-test-01.pd and it's dependencies. On my dual core 2.4ghz Macbook Pro (4gb ram, 10.5.1, pd extended 40.3-2007-12-07), I hit 21-27% cpu load On the Macbook 'Pro' 1.83 I have here the CPU time is

Re: [PD] overall horrible performance in OS X

2008-02-04 Thread brandon zeeb
About the iTunes EQ, that is really funny. I just profiled PD while running the example patch, and you're right (see example 1 below). Using Instruments showed similar results, + a _lot_ of time spent microsleeping. Do you find that the CPU load scales well in large patches,

[PD] ~ signal greater than

2008-02-04 Thread marius schebella
hey, with the latest autobuild of pd-extended for macosx intel (20080117) and also with previous versions the signal comparators of zexy can't be created. I also don't see them in the zexy external folder. what is the trick to get them running? marius.

Re: [PD] sound for blender apricot opensource game

2008-02-04 Thread Andy Farnell
Sorry I've completely mixed up the Apricot project with the Peach project!! Duh! Please ignore my ramblings. The game could probably do with some SFX, but as Roman and Marius point out they've made a design decision on CS engine and proposing procedural Pd audio would no doubt be disruptive

Re: [PD] New on ubuntu: where to go now

2008-02-04 Thread PSPunch
Yvan, That's why you should NOT download the package from the website! If you're using ubuntu studio, you can just type sudo apt-get install pd and all dependencies will be installed automatically. Regards, yvan Maybe so for Vanilla. Was pd-extended also available from

[PD] [OT] New machine - sound hardware?

2008-02-04 Thread Ed Kelly
Hi all, Been off the list - overworked and ill... So, after my laptop was stolen, I bought a new one. But really a new one, so now I have some serious problems... Technically this does what I need in every way but sound hardware. Two instances of PD use seperate processors of the CPU, so

Re: [PD] [OT] New machine - sound hardware?

2008-02-04 Thread nils
I've been using a firewire presonus firepod with the freebob drivers under linux. With Ubuntu Studio and the real time kernel I can get around 2-5ms with no dropouts. It also works in OSX and windoze. The midi also works fine. The presonus has been good so far, well designed, metal case,

Re: [PD] pd thunder

2008-02-04 Thread marius schebella
hi andy, the samples sound very complex already, how did you create them? I had more the impression of explosions, though, than thunder. regarding books, do you know if any of these books are available as pdfs at all? otherwise do you want paper copies??? at least the second article is available

Re: [PD] [OT] New machine - sound hardware?

2008-02-04 Thread patrick
1. Has anyone a working firewire (ieee1394) interface with their laptop i have a macbook pro with a presonus firepod (firewire) running linux with freebob (ffado is not ready). the latency testing patch in pd gives me around 12 ms, but jdelay is 7 ms. the only annoying thing with my setup is

Re: [PD] pd thunder

2008-02-04 Thread Andy Farnell
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:01:59 -0500 marius schebella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi andy, the samples sound very complex already, how did you create them? I had more the impression of explosions, though, than thunder. Yes, interesting feedback. Theres three models I've got atm. The Wright

Re: [PD] [OT] New machine - sound hardware?

2008-02-04 Thread altern
hi patrick I have a terratec phase X24 and the only problem I have is because of the firewire controller on my laptop (IBM X32) which seems to be crap (a Ricoh). So it is not the soundcard. I was told on the freebob list that I should buy a PCMCIA firewire card to solve this. I disabled cron

Re: [PD] [OT] New machine - sound hardware?

2008-02-04 Thread Miller Puckette
My trick for getting updatedb turned off is to remove the 'slocate' package that it's a part of. Took me some time to figure that out. cheers Miller On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 03:34:32AM +0100, altern wrote: hi patrick I have a terratec phase X24 and the only problem I have is because of the

Re: [PD] [OT] New machine - sound hardware?

2008-02-04 Thread altern
i used sudo sysv-rc-conf to disable cron and anacron, as well as some other processes Miller Puckette(e)k dio: My trick for getting updatedb turned off is to remove the 'slocate' package that it's a part of. Took me some time to figure that out. cheers Miller On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at

Re: [PD] overall horrible performance in OS X

2008-02-04 Thread hard off
the patch i'm currently using has a base cpu output of around 50% and then it goes up to about 70% when running. ..but that's with 8 channels of drums, 4 synth channels, 8 sampler channels and dsp effects + gui for all of them. i didn't know that about the itunes eq either. is there a way to

Re: [PD] pd thunder

2008-02-04 Thread hard off
just a suggestion: i think the reason why they sound a bit like explosions, rather than thunder, is because the cracks of thunder are propogated directly in front of you. maybe some sort of spatialization could make the crack appear more overhead, and then the rumble lower down?