Re: [PD] Size of a table

2008-06-22 Thread João Pais
who is responsible for this object? these features should go to the help patches João Pais And just in case someone on the list hasn't seen this, http://crca.ucsd.edu/~syadegar/expr.html gives documentation for the expr expr~ fexpr~ objects. Table functions (including size(), sum(),

[PD] still the long load time - pd ext

2008-06-22 Thread João Pais
Hi, going back to the subject of the long loading time of patches: before I suspected that it was due (besides some difference in the newer version) to several nested gops. that's not the case, as after switching off the gops it still takes as long (or maybe slightly less, but still too

Re: [PD] autosaving incluing GOP subpatches Autosaver

2008-06-22 Thread Luigi Rensinghoff
Hi List, Hi Georg I would like to have one subject discussed... I am encountering a problem (OS X Mac-Intel - Pd-extended version 0.40.3-extended-20080614) When quite a big patch i am working on (CPU-load around 80-90%) i actually can not close it in a clean way. Sometimes i slightly

Re: [PD] JACK error: client linked with incompatible libjack version.

2008-06-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Use a different package, like Debian/testing or Ubuntu/Hardy. Or build it yourself. .hc On Jun 22, 2008, at 2:56 AM, Rich E wrote: In an ongoing attempt to find the root of my audio problems when using a firewire soundcard with jack/freebob, I just installed the latest stable version

[PD] Fwd: Play a soundfile reverse

2008-06-22 Thread Ricardo Dueñas Parada
Thanks Andy, what do you mean with not very long? I am working with 4 channels, so I chose writesf~ + soundfiler + tabread4~ and everything is working fine. _Ricardo 2008/6/18 Andy Farnell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Ricardo, Provided the file is not very long you can read it into an array

Re: [PD] Size of a table

2008-06-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Edit the existing help patch and add this stuff, then add it to the patch tracker, and it should be included. At least, I'd include it in Pd-extended. .hc On Jun 22, 2008, at 12:06 PM, João Pais wrote: who is responsible for this object? these features should go to the help patches

Re: [PD] still the long load time - pd ext

2008-06-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
There is a bug in the prefs loading of Pd in general where it'll peg the CPU while loading for a bit unless you specify npath and nloadlib. Perhaps it is related to that? Right now would be a good time to download and try a nightly build. AFAIK, there aren't any outstanding bugs. I just

Re: [PD] still the long load time - pd ext

2008-06-22 Thread marius schebella
did you post the patch somehwere? I think several people mentioned that pdx got slower, would like to know why, too? marius. João Pais wrote: Hi, going back to the subject of the long loading time of patches: before I suspected that it was due (besides some difference in the newer

Re: [PD] extended and load file

2008-06-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
By the way, this should be fixed to make more sense in the latest builds: - default saveas folder is PWD on GNU/Linux and Windows - default saveas folder is Home folder (~/) on Mac OSX - new patches default to the folder last saved in .hc On Jun 10, 2008, at 7:02 PM, Vincent Rioux wrote:

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] pure:dyne miso!

2008-06-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Congrats on the release! Just curious if integration with common Pd build system (aka Pd-extended, I suppose) is on the roadmap still. It would be good if we can combine efforts on this one to save us all time and unfun work. .hc On Jun 15, 2008, at 9:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [PD] Fwd: Play a soundfile reverse

2008-06-22 Thread Andy Farnell
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:06:12 -0500 Ricardo Dueñas Parada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Andy, what do you mean with not very long? You might find that files over about 2 mins will play back with poor quality on a 32 bit machine. I am working with 4 channels, so I chose writesf~ +

Re: [PD] JACK error: client linked with incompatible libjack version.

2008-06-22 Thread Rich E
I built pd-extended from svn. I just don't understand why this is necessary in my case. I thought it wouldn't matter if my library is newer, but compatible, than the one the binary packages were compiled with. On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:30 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [PD] JACK error: client linked with incompatible libjack version.

2008-06-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
compatible is the key word there. As the error message says, client linked with incompatible libjack version .hc On Jun 22, 2008, at 8:14 PM, Rich E wrote: I built pd-extended from svn. I just don't understand why this is necessary in my case. I thought it wouldn't matter if my

[PD] [PD-announce] Pd-0.40.3-extended-rc2 released

2008-06-22 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
For this release, there has been a lot of work in making the GUI and user experience much more fluid and easy. There is a new visual look that was designed to make patches more readable. Additionally, lots of things have been tweaked to make Pd behave more like a normal app. There has

Re: [PD] sssad and polywavesynth

2008-06-22 Thread Phil Stone
I'm sorry to be replying so late to this, but I was away for a week. The first argument to [polywavesynth] is a tag which is prepended to all sssad-saved settings for that instance. For example, An instance created with [polywavesynth wav1 32 1] will, when sssad-save is called, save a list

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Pd-0.40.3-extended-rc2 released

2008-06-22 Thread Luke Iannini
Hurrah, great work Hans... Pd is starting to feel quite native on the Mac. The app-generator is fantastic. I've got quite a few patches designed for just such a thing. - the GUI runs slower on some older Macs It's definitely not just older Macs! I've got a two month old Mac Pro 2.8x8 that

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Pd-0.40.3-extended-rc2 released

2008-06-22 Thread Matthew Logan
So it's not just XP then. It makes it hard to even build a patch, because I'm afraid of using GOP. Start-up of the program itself is no issue. The slow-down occurs whenever I open my main working patch. It took about 30-45 sec before (last released pd-extended package). Now it takes 5 1/2

Re: [PD] Fwd: Play a soundfile reverse

2008-06-22 Thread Ricardo Dueñas Parada
I realized that soundfiler truncate the file to 400 elements. Is there a way to load a file into an array, withuot this restriction? What I'm trying to do is: 1. record the file with [writesf~] (this file could be long, about 5 or 7 minutes) 2. finish the recording 3. load it into an array,

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Pd-0.40.3-extended-rc2 released

2008-06-22 Thread Max Neupert
Hans, thank you for doing that. I have some remarks though: Am 2008-06-23 um 06:58 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner: - default locations for user-installed externals, helpfiles, etc. Mac OS X: /Library/Pd and ~/Library/Pd i still think it should rather be /Library/Application Support/Pd -

Re: [PD] better tabread4~

2008-06-22 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Andy Farnell wrote: with [tabread4~] being good enough for playing back files at their original rate, If you are going to playback at original rate, [tabread4] is both useless and 10 times slower than [tabread]. All that [tabread4] is good at, is playing back at

Re: [PD] better tabread4~

2008-06-22 Thread Andy Farnell
Yes that'right, hmm I guess I knew that but said it in a woolly way Amend that to [tabread~] - play back at exactly the original rate [tabread4~] - play back at close to the orginal rate [tabread4c~] - play back with wider transposition On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:50:44 -0400 (EDT) Mathieu