[PD] Peeking at a WAV file's headers?

2008-04-24 Thread Ken Restivo
I've built a little patch to read and play stereo WAV files, but soundfiler crashes PD completely and exits if I open a mono WAV file. I'm using read -resize $1 testsampleL testsampleR to read into two arrays. Is there some way in PD to conditionally peek at the WAV header, so that I can do

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread Matt Barber
I think the one-sample delay is given by [rzero_rev~ 0] -- (y[n] = -a[n] * x[n] + x[n-1]) -- but [z~] takes an argument for any delay by sample. Also, using a filter to achieve the delay might be putting the cart before the horse in pedagogical situations -- here [fexpr~] is probably

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread Enrique Erne
or [biquad~ 0 0 0 1] eni Miller Puckette wrote: I believe z~ is just rzero~ 0. cheers Miller On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:24:34AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Matt Barber hat gesagt: // Matt Barber wrote: Actually, for those of us who insist on vanilla and do everything with

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: It seems the cleanest solution would be to just include the objects that Andy has pointed out. Otherwise, I think adding the whole of cyclone will be opening up a big can of worms. Cyclone has a lot of redundant

[PD] pd on multi touch

2008-04-24 Thread Ben Carney
Hello there all, Is there any work being done on getting pd to tun on a multi ouch device such as the ipod touch or iphone? I think this would be an amazing experience, connecting patch chords with a fingertip or stylus best, -- Ben C. ___

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread Thomas Grill
Am 24.04.2008 um 06:21 schrieb marius schebella: record conflicts (?) with record from xsample Why should it? the name o the object is xrecord~ gr~~~ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list

[PD] GEM - questions about cpu/gpu performance for installation

2008-04-24 Thread Jaime Oliver
Hello all, I am making a patch for an installation using GEM and have several questions regarding image processsing. The 'visual' patch consists of many GL polygons (expecting about a 1000 per computer) over which I am texturing images. The basic building blocks (abstractions) are: gemhead |

[PD] EU + USA tour!

2008-04-24 Thread Chris McCormick
Hello, (apologies if you recieve this more than once) My wife and I are doing a tour of Europe (in a campervan) and the USA starting at the end of August and I'm trying to organise some gigs for myself. I'm counting on the help of you good folks of the Free Software music oriented lists! I hope

Re: [PD] pd on multi touch

2008-04-24 Thread Kevin McCoy
In a post a while back I think Derek Holzer said that he uses a wacom-esque patching method. Of course not quite as good as what you describe. km On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:41 AM, Ben Carney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello there all, Is there any work being done on getting pd to tun on a

Re: [PD] Peeking at a WAV file's headers?

2008-04-24 Thread hard off
there is an external in pd-extended called [wavinfo] ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread marius schebella
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: It seems the cleanest solution would be to just include the objects that Andy has pointed out. Otherwise, I think adding the whole of cyclone will be opening up a big can of worms. mmh!! worms! the U.N. food and agriculture organization estimates 1,400

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread Andy Farnell
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:01:26 -0400 marius schebella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always wanted to try chocolate ants, but you can't get them round here, not even in Southall. http://www.lazyboneuk.com/store/pro501.html Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: It seems the cleanest solution would be

Re: [PD] pd on multi touch

2008-04-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Shouldn't be too hard to get Pd running on an iphone. Getting the GUI stuff running on an iPhone is a different story. That's dependant on whether Tcl/Tk runs on the iPhone. Apparently, someone has done it, I haven't tried it. Also, someone has stepped up and said they are going to

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
DIY! You can make your own chocolate ants! .hc On Apr 24, 2008, at 9:51 AM, Andy Farnell wrote: On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:01:26 -0400 marius schebella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always wanted to try chocolate ants, but you can't get them round here, not even in Southall.

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread marius schebella
btw, are all pow~ objects reversed? right inlet^left inlet? marius. Andy Farnell wrote: Did I read that Cyclone is to be incorporated into vanilla Pd? Having discovered too late that [pow~] is not part of vanilla I am about to remove the constraint of using vanilla Pd for the synthetic

Re: [PD] GEM - questions about cpu/gpu performance for installation

2008-04-24 Thread chris clepper
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Jaime Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Right now, my computer (old powerbook OSX 10.4.11 - one processor, built-in graphics (ATY,RV360M11 it claims)) displaying at 1280 * 960, with 23 polygons being rendered at 30fps and nothing else being done in pd, claims

Re: [PD] configuring ubuntu: hid readable + Intuos3

2008-04-24 Thread João Pais
I remember having the same problem a while back, and all it took to fix the wacom permissions was adding KERNEL==event[0-9]*, MODE=0666 to your /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules file. thanks. this worked well, now hid acesses all devices. the intuos isn't still

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread Andy Farnell
Yep. What is to be done about that? Should we keep to the conventions of vanilla and Pd generally by changing that? I am torn on this. I would have a lot of rewriting to do but would like to see conventions observed. OTOH, maybe compatibility with patches out there using Cyclone [pow~] should

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread Miller Puckette
This is a serious problem -- putting a backwards pow~ into Pd might be worse than having none at all. But writing a book that uses pow backwards would be even worse than having one in Pd! Maybe the right thing would be to use another name such as power~. On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 05:16:08PM

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread Andy Farnell
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:38:07 -0700 Miller Puckette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a serious problem -- putting a backwards pow~ into Pd might be worse than having none at all. But writing a book that uses pow backwards would be even worse than having one in Pd! Agreed. This is a difficult

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread Claude Heiland-Allen
Andy Farnell wrote: On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:38:07 -0700 Miller Puckette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a serious problem -- putting a backwards pow~ into Pd might be worse than having none at all. But writing a book that uses pow backwards would be even worse than having one in Pd!

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread Andy Farnell
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:17:29 +0100 Claude Heiland-Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since it would be in core how about ^ or ** ^ is usually bitwise XOR (in C, and Pd's expr). I think the presence in [expr~] is enough to exclude that option. ** is used for powers in a number of

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread marius schebella
Miller Puckette wrote: This is a serious problem -- putting a backwards pow~ into Pd might be worse than having none at all. But writing a book that uses pow backwards would be even worse than having one in Pd! Maybe the right thing would be to use another name such as power~. then the max

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread marius schebella
Andy Farnell wrote: x^y seems natural to put the exponent in the second argument. I would not go so far to call it natural, but maybe conventional. marius. ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread marius schebella
Andy Farnell wrote: This would mean breaking backwards with Cyclone. well, we still could keep cyclone/pow~. ... pd still has the 0 in the version number. break because patches would simply fail to compute correctly rather than throwing any kind of detectable error. they could throw a

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread Steffen Juul
On 24/04/2008, at 19.17, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote: But, there is the potential confusion of [pow][pow~][**][**~], it would be nice if the signal version of maths behaved the same as the non-signal maths with the same name (confusing if [pow] exists but the signal equivalent is [**~]).

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread Andy Farnell
Yes, a backwards clash is horrible Marius, and I want to avoid that too. The question would be over a new name I guess. There's plenty of room in the name space to avoid clashing if we do reverse [pow~] [pwr~] for eample (anyone building a pressurised water reactor?...) It may seem weird to

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread Andy Farnell
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:30:44 +0200 Steffen Juul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And to be frank, does it really matter if it's one way or the other? I think it does. No doubt there are exeptions that go against this, but it seems well established that all Pd objects order arguments like standard

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Andy Farnell hat gesagt: // Andy Farnell wrote: Yes, a backwards clash is horrible Marius, and I want to avoid that too. The question would be over a new name I guess. What about the [list OP] approach for signal math, as I implemented with my [math~ OP] abstraction? This would also

Re: [PD] Cyclone in vanilla?

2008-04-24 Thread marius schebella
honestly, I think not many people used it... I ran grep -R pow~ * in my pd-directories and found only two patches (of 1+) besides the helppatch for pow~, that use it. nusmuk for distortion.pd, tb for sigmoid_booster~.pd I don't know other big collections like net-pd (I think I just checked

[PD] direction

2008-04-24 Thread Ben Carney
hello all pd-ers not quite sure how to hrase this correctly. I need to be able to dtermine direction of a string of bangs. more sinply, I need to know if they are being triggered in the same direction from which they started, or if they are bing triggered in the opposite. i need positive or

Re: [PD] direction

2008-04-24 Thread Claude Heiland-Allen
Ben Carney wrote: I need to be able to tell direction the slider is being slid relative to the direction it started from. ((slider value) - (previous slider value)) 0 slider | [t f f] \ / X / \ [-] | [ 0] | [select 0 1] || decrease increase Hope this helps,

Re: [PD] direction

2008-04-24 Thread Ben Carney
it looks good, but not working. I have made a fe assumptions in your sketch. does the big X represent the patch chords crossing to opposite inlets? also, i am assuming that the decrease and increase at the bottom are number boxes. with these assumptions, i am getting no change whatsoever in the

Re: [PD] direction

2008-04-24 Thread Ben Carney
so I connected bangs instead of numbers to the bottom under select [0 1] getting bangs for increase and decrease. thank you very much. now is there a way I can get increase or decreases relative to the first direction that takes place? so maybe there could be some reset function and if the slider

Re: [PD] direction

2008-04-24 Thread Matthew Logan
Looks like the decrease and increase represent bangs... On 4/24/08, Ben Carney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it looks good, but not working. I have made a fe assumptions in your sketch. does the big X represent the patch chords crossing to opposite inlets? also, i am assuming that the decrease

Re: [PD] Wacom tablet support on MacOSX

2008-04-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Apr 3, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Thomas Grill wrote: Am 03.04.2008 um 22:59 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner: No, someone would have to write an object to the Wacom API since they decided not use the HID API. On GNU/Linux, the wacom's use the HID API, so they'll work with [hid]. A

Re: [PD] pdp_colorgrid bug

2008-04-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Apr 1, 2008, at 8:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Hey Lluis, Good to hear that you're working on these objects, they are very valuable contributions that with a little more polish will really round out Pd's capabilities. As for updating this, I

Re: [PD] pdp_colorgrid bug

2008-04-24 Thread lluisgomez
S'està citant Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Apr 1, 2008, at 8:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Hey Lluis, Good to hear that you're working on these objects, they are very valuable contributions that with a little more polish will really round

Re: [PD] direction

2008-04-24 Thread Luigi Rensinghoff
Hi there,since i am experimenting quite a bit with the mapping-abstractions...in the last dayswell, there is many times a solution for problems that i am facingThere is an object called "diff_n" which does simple differentiation, and thats exactly what you are looking for..maybe that helpsI have

[PD] pd-msg

2008-04-24 Thread Luigi Rensinghoff
Hi List there is this well-written tips and tricks folder that desribes how to create objects/abstractions by sending messages. like...in folder #5: 2.create_new_abstract.pd.. First, thanks to who put that together, this is extremely helpful and only documented here... So my question

[PD] contextual pdpedia menu link

2008-04-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hey all, I just checked in code to make the Pdpedia link in the Help menu try to find the object name if you are looking at a help patch. If the help patch is the topmost window, it'll use that object name when it opens the pdpedia and take you directly to that page. Should be in

Re: [PD] pd-msg

2008-04-24 Thread Mike McGonagle
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Luigi Rensinghoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List there is this well-written tips and tricks folder that desribes how to create objects/abstractions by sending messages. like...in folder #5: 2.create_new_abstract.pd.. First, thanks to who put that

Re: [PD] contextual pdpedia menu link

2008-04-24 Thread Luke Iannini (pd)
Arr, I finished this two days ago and got caught up with troubles recompiling Pd. Ah well, glad it is done : ). Thanks for doing it. On the upside, I discovered how to get OS X proxy icons working in the process, so I'll still have something to contribute Cheers Luke On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at

Re: [PD] contextual pdpedia menu link

2008-04-24 Thread Luke Iannini (pd)
I see your solution didn't require changes to Pd : ) that's good, it's thus better than mine anyways. On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Luke Iannini (pd) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arr, I finished this two days ago and got caught up with troubles recompiling Pd. Ah well, glad it is done : ).

Re: [PD] direction

2008-04-24 Thread Jaime Oliver
I think this is what you're looking for... best, J On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Luigi Rensinghoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, since i am experimenting quite a bit with the mapping-abstractions...in the last days well, there is many times a solution for problems that i am facing

Re: [PD] pd-msg

2008-04-24 Thread Luigi Rensinghoff
Yes, you just need to set those arguments when you add the objects to the patch. I am not really sure where it is, but there is a listing of each of the objects in PD and what arguments they can handle. Oh yes i found it its just in the properties menu of the object - silly me

[PD] pdp_opencv pix_opencv new development

2008-04-24 Thread lluisgomez
hi all, I started a new development for some OpenCV bindigs to PD, I have some objects working but no time to test or implement newones ... I want to encourage people to test them and report bugs, features requests, experiences, etc ... and why not, to help coding ... Please, note that this

[PD] Trax - Sinusoidal Model Synthesis in Pure Data

2008-04-24 Thread Rich E
www.teafordragons.com/rte/trax.html This is a patch I've been working on for quite some time now, finally packaged with some documentation and an example qlist with it. Trax is a fancy additive synthesizer that stores partials in data structures and re-synthesizes them using [oscbank~]. It gets

Re: [PD] contextual pdpedia menu link

2008-04-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Oops, sorry, I didn't realize that you were working on it. You still get credit for the idea :). I think the pdpedia context menu link is still worth doing. What are proxy icons? .hc On Apr 24, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote: Arr, I finished this two days ago and got caught

Re: [PD] Trax - Sinusoidal Model Synthesis in Pure Data

2008-04-24 Thread Luke Iannini (pd)
This looks really incredible Rich. I can't wait to try it out. The music is great too : ) Cheers Luke On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Rich E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: www.teafordragons.com/rte/trax.html This is a patch I've been working on for quite some time now, finally packaged with