Re: [PD] Get name of patch from within the patch
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014, at 02:54 AM, Chris McCormick wrote: Hello, On 03/03/14 21:55, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: Hi. I've been googling a bit and looking through the library of objects that comes with pd-extended, but can't seem to find a way to get the name of the patch from within the patch. Anyone know of a nice method to do this? I would use [namecanvas] for this. For example you could have an object like [namecanvas $0-mypatch] and then you can send messages to the patch using e.g. [s $0-mypatch]. Thanks, but this won't work for me, as the name has to be the actual patch name. I've understood that there might be a fix in the svn version of [canvasname], apart of iemguts, which would allow getting the name of the top level patch. The reason I had for this is I wanted to have uniquely named patches that have a common save mechanism, which looks up the savefile based on the unique patch name. I was always going to create these uniquely named patches in another top level patch, so I can get around this problems by adding an argument for the patch, which is the same as the patchname, and let the save mechanism look up the filename that way. I initially would have wanted the uniquely named patch to be able to be opened as is, but that's not a major problem. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
[PD] Get name of patch from within the patch
Hi. I've been googling a bit and looking through the library of objects that comes with pd-extended, but can't seem to find a way to get the name of the patch from within the patch. Anyone know of a nice method to do this? ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] Pd and pulseaudio (was: ALSA output error (restart failed): Broken pipe)
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:29:15 +0100, Miller Puckette m...@ucsd.edu wrote: Just to comment on why I ended up un-installing portaudio: I booted my Pi with a clean new Raspbian distro, compiled Pd (after installing some packages like git and alsa libs), ran it and found that pulseaudio was running. So I exit Pd and likk pulseaudio via pulseaudio -kill. Then start Pd and find it _still_ can't open audio. Why? ell, looking back I found that pulseaudio was running again! So I re-killed it and tried a third time. Same result: for some reason, the mere act of starting Pd was causing pulseaudio to start itself up and grab the audio device so that Pd couldn't get it. There are similar plot sequences in old Three Stooges and Marx Brothers movies, but I wasn't exactly laughing. What if I were about to have to walk on stage with this thing? So I googled around and read through the many-page man page for pulseaudio and found no explanation of why this was happening, nor any suggestions for how to disable pulseaudio other than the -kill command I had already tried. After a while I lost patience and uninstalled pulse and I suggest that everyone else do so as well. cheers Miller Pulseaudio respawns itself, unless you've configured it not to. You can disable it temporarily with the tool pasuspender. The syntax would be: pasuspender -- pd ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] Pd and pulseaudio (was: ALSA output error (restart failed): Broken pipe)
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:34:49 +0100, Kaj Ailomaa zeque...@mousike.me wrote: On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:29:15 +0100, Miller Puckette m...@ucsd.edu wrote: Just to comment on why I ended up un-installing portaudio: I booted my Pi with a clean new Raspbian distro, compiled Pd (after installing some packages like git and alsa libs), ran it and found that pulseaudio was running. So I exit Pd and likk pulseaudio via pulseaudio -kill. Then start Pd and find it _still_ can't open audio. Why? ell, looking back I found that pulseaudio was running again! So I re-killed it and tried a third time. Same result: for some reason, the mere act of starting Pd was causing pulseaudio to start itself up and grab the audio device so that Pd couldn't get it. There are similar plot sequences in old Three Stooges and Marx Brothers movies, but I wasn't exactly laughing. What if I were about to have to walk on stage with this thing? So I googled around and read through the many-page man page for pulseaudio and found no explanation of why this was happening, nor any suggestions for how to disable pulseaudio other than the -kill command I had already tried. After a while I lost patience and uninstalled pulse and I suggest that everyone else do so as well. cheers Miller Pulseaudio respawns itself, unless you've configured it not to. You can disable it temporarily with the tool pasuspender. The syntax would be: pasuspender -- pd ..ah, sorry, Didn't read through the previous posts very carefully. Anyway, you can turn off PA autospawning in a configuration file. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] Pd and pulseaudio
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:45:12 +0100, Roman Haefeli reduz...@gmail.com wrote: On Fre, 2013-02-01 at 10:37 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: [...] Yeah, that sounds like my experience as well. One thing I've heard is that pulseaudio can use jack as the backend instead of ALSA. That sounds like an ideal situation. Anyone messed with that? Yeah, there are some tutorials around about how to install the jack-sink plugin for pulseaudio. It worked well for me. But it had the side-effect that the volume control keys didn't work anymore. Roman ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list Just install pulseaudio-module-jack Use jackdbus instead of jackd (jackd2 in Debian based) to have the module activate jack sink and source automatically when starting jackdbus. Some jack control apps will want to start jackdbus. jack_control is a command line tool for starting jackdbus. Just do: jack_control start|stop If using qjackctl, make sure dbus is enabled in Setup - Misc Restart PA after installing the module. Written by David Henningson as a starting point for integrating jack with PA. jack is able to grab the audio device from PA, but this feature is a little buggy, so it won't work every time. It happens through dbus, and it's some code that the author Poettering implemented in both PA and jack. jack is set to have higher priority, and PA is supposed to let go of the card, and let jack grab it. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] Random number generation quest
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:53:44 +0100, Enrique Erne enri...@netpd.org wrote: Hi List! Can a random number form 0 to 100 be generated with the following requirements: - No externals / Vanilla Pd only - DSP must be off - The patch is loaded with Pd through command line interface i.e. `pd -noprefs -nogui givemerandom.pd` - The output should not always be the same number Thanks for looking into it eni ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list Here's a solution using [realtime] and [del] #N canvas 539 577 450 300 10; #X obj 184 51 loadbang; #X obj 184 125 realtime; #X obj 184 74 t b b; #X msg 211 195 seed \$1; #X obj 184 96 del 5; #X obj 184 148 * 1000; #X obj 184 250 print; #X obj 184 171 t b f; #X obj 184 219 random 100; #X connect 0 0 2 0; #X connect 1 0 5 0; #X connect 2 0 4 0; #X connect 2 1 1 0; #X connect 3 0 8 0; #X connect 4 0 1 1; #X connect 5 0 7 0; #X connect 7 0 8 0; #X connect 7 1 3 0; #X connect 8 0 6 0; ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] MIDI and JACK autoconnection is a PITA...
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:55:17 +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoel...@iem.at wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-10-31 11:41, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: or does it also affect jack audio connections? I'd like to try to fix this but never use jack so am not sure where to start. maybe a startup flag and/or preference (off by default)? i think it's quite easy to setup a permament connection using 3rd party tools like qjackctl or patchage (or even my [aconnect] external :-)) so Pd could be left blessfully unaware about all the connection stuff and leave it to software that are good at that. atm, a lot of software are doing auto-connection, and there is no good way to control this IMO atm. qjackctl has the ability to auto-connect apps, but not to auto-disconnect. I do prefer that apps do not autoconnect, but at the same time, I don't mind having the option. I would vote for adding a toggle for this in pd jack setup. fgmasdr IOhannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCRA5EACgkQkX2Xpv6ydvQLSwCdGGxmWvYynaTfcXEw1RyYPebl w5YAnizzvHGPVYg59AUwDMcrs5SJW6ZL =NQ/a -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] MIDI and JACK autoconnection is a PITA...
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:20:53 +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoel...@iem.at wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-10-31 12:10, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: I would vote for adding a toggle for this in pd jack setup. just to be nitpicky (and i have to admit that this is something that should have been said right from the beginning): the alsa-midi part has exactly nothing to do with jack. so the toggle should be somewhere else. (i think the reason for the confusion often comes from the fact that qJackCtl originally provided patchbays for both jack-audio and alsa-midi (and now it provides an additional patchbay for jack-midi)) Ah, yeah. Sorry. I was actually only talking about jack audio. As for midi, I don't have an opinion. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] Cheapest effects/objects/abstractions?
A simple way to check is to use the cpu meter on PD.To see more action, multiply the number of effects you are using.Even just a large number of [throw~] and [catch~] can cause a bit of load on the cpu, while direct connections are cheaper.As for "effects", I guess there really isn't any specific category for them as far as objects are concerned. I know there are a few objects that could be considered effects.On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 09:50:53 +0200, xiaoping lyu xiaoping@gmail.com wrote:Helloto , which are the cheapest effects in pd in terms of cpu consumption? Is there any information of this anywhere maybe?I need to have massive quantity of effects , any idea?Xiao ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] variable number of outlets/inlets
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:28:53 +0200, Eldad Tsabary tazberry_d...@yahoo.ca wrote: Hi, How does one create an abstraction with a variable number of outlets (depending on the number of arguments)? Thanks Eldad ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list You can use [tof/arguments] to count the amount of arguments. Then, do dynamic patching. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
[PD] Weird object initialization, [list length] was symbol in disguise
I had a strange problem with a patch recently. [list length] was not outputting numbers, but the message symbol. Also, another [list] object was missing it's right inlet, and had become disconnected. After manually replacing those objects with new ones, they initialized normally, and when I reopen the patch all is fine. How did this happen? -- | kaj.ailo...@mousike.me -| ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] Weird object initialization, [list length] was symbol in disguise
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 20:33 +0200, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: I had a strange problem with a patch recently. [list length] was not outputting numbers, but the message symbol. Also, another [list] object was missing it's right inlet, and had become disconnected. After manually replacing those objects with new ones, they initialized normally, and when I reopen the patch all is fine. How did this happen? If I had been a bit more quick thinking, I would have kept the patch as reference, but unfortunately, I made the changes and then saved over the malfunctioning patch (being just focused on getting the patch to work). So, unfortunately, I have nothing to support my claims. Just wondering if I am the only one who has had this behavior -- | kaj.ailo...@mousike.me -| ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] list-abs
You'll need to enable the library. There are numerous ways to do that. * [list-abs/list-normalize]. * [import list-abs] * [declare -lib list-abs] (will require you to reload the patch) * You can start pd with: pd -lib list-abs * Add paths and libraries in pd settings (which end up in a config file somewhere) (sorry, didn't send to the list at first) On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 14:53 -0700, richard duckworth wrote: Hi all, trying to use [list-normalize], which relies on [list-abs] in turn and I keep getting 'couldn't create' messages (caused by the object list-abs). I'm on OS X 10.6.8 w/ Pd-xtended 0.43 (and 0.42 too). I've tried it on Win7 + Ubuntu as well but to no avail. I've checked that the externals are loaded. Any thoughts? All the best, Rich Rich Duckworth Lecturer in Music Technology Department of Music House 5 Trinity College Dublin 2 Ireland Tel 353 1 896 1500 It's the most devastating moment in a young mans life, when he quite reasonably says to himself, I shall never play The Dane! ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list -- | kaj.ailo...@mousike.me -| ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] list-abs
On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 23:14 -0300, José Rafael Subía Valdez wrote: Actually, that lib is a bunch of externals so declare doesnt exactly apply... I dont know exactly why it happens, but it does... I had the same issue... what I did is, I opened the [list-abs] abstraction that stands for list absolute value and made a subpatch with its content. declare worked just fine when I tried it. On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 6:53 PM, richard duckworth richduckwo...@yahoo.comwrote: Hi all, trying to use [list-normalize], which relies on [list-abs] in turn and I keep getting 'couldn't create' messages (caused by the object list-abs). I'm on OS X 10.6.8 w/ Pd-xtended 0.43 (and 0.42 too). I've tried it on Win7 + Ubuntu as well but to no avail. I've checked that the externals are loaded. Any thoughts? All the best, Rich Rich Duckworth Lecturer in Music Technology Department of Music House 5 Trinity College Dublin 2 Ireland Tel 353 1 896 1500 It's the most devastating moment in a young mans life, when he quite reasonably says to himself, I shall never play The Dane! ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list -- | kaj.ailo...@mousike.me -| ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] first trial,. but no sound
On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 19:19 +0200, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 17:42 +0200, Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear Kaj, thanks for Your help. I've installed the lowlatency kernel and I've also reinstalled qjackctl and pd, from the ubuntu repositorys. But I still do have the problem, that I don't hear any sound. I opened Your patch signal-example and I can see the cables. But I can't hear any sound! I don't have the option compute audio. When I click DSP, nothing happens. Shall I install a newer or older version from source? Sorry, this was supposed to go to the list.. As for alsa, I am a bit reluctant to say too much, cause I don't know how that works with pulseaudio. But, the example should work fine, given you have started jack and configured pd to use jack, as well as made sure they are connected. If you have multiple audio devices (hdmi is an audio device also), you need to make sure the right device is selected in qjackctl - Setup - Interface. Other settings are fine as they are. After starting pd, choose from the menu: Media - jack. Make sure input and output are toggled on, and that you have set the number of channels (2 is fine). Click Ok. Then, go to qjackctl - Connect. If there are no wires between pd and system, then select pd at one side, and system at one side, and hit connect. This will enable audio out. system-pd will enable audio in. You can expand the inputs and outputs with the little arrows next to the devices to see how many inputs outputs each contains. That should be it. -- | kaj.ailo...@mousike.me -| ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] first trial,. but no sound
On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 08:20 +0200, Stefan Thomas wrote: Dear Iain, I did as You suggested, the problem remains the same. One problem might be: When I reinstall PD some of the other PD-related packages will be reinstalled to. But I've read in the meantime, that my problem could be a bug, related to my version of PD. It seems to be the same problem like the one, I have read on this site: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645041 Yep. It seems to be a bug with that release. I've added an example as an attachment. Should be enough to check if everything works. Alsa works for me, but it doesn't work well at lower latencies. Jack is preferred for that. Only, to get lower latencies with jack, you'll need to install linux-lowlatency (low latency capable linux kernel) and set up realtime privilege (all this is done if you installed Ubuntu Studio). To set up realtime privilege, you'll need to do a few things. First, install linux-lowlatency: sudo apt-get install linux-lowlatency Second, you need to answer yes when asked about this when installing jack. If unsure, see that the file /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf is not named /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf.disabled. To rename it, do this in a terminal: sudo mv /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf.disabled /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf Inside that file, you need to have these two lines uncommented (they should be by default): @audio - rtprio 95 @audio - memlockunlimited If the file doesn't exist, just create it: sudo nano /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf ..and add the two lines above. The third thing to do is to add yourself to audio group: sudo usermod -a -G audio $USER Then, reboot. Latency is adjusted separately for both jack and pd. I believe jack handles audio latency when used with pd, while pd handles its' internal data latency. Good latency for me is 64 frames/period in qjackctl settings, and around 5-10 ms in pd jack settings. | kaj.ailo...@mousike.me -| #N canvas 580 461 726 423 10; #X obj 317 316 dac~; #X obj 326 70 osc~ 440; #X obj 326 101 *~ 0.5; #X obj 327 221 *~; #X msg 374 184 \$1 20; #X obj 437 155 tgl 15 0 empty empty toggle_audio_out 17 7 0 10 -262144 -1 -1 0 1; #X obj 374 206 line~; #X obj 134 135 env~ 8192; #X floatatom 134 172 5 0 0 0 signal - -; #X text 350 319 this is the puredata output; #X text 383 71 simple sinus in 440 Hz; #X text 36 194 will show activity \, when you turn on dsp; #X msg 80 55 \; pd dsp 1; #X msg 141 55 \; pd dsp 0; #X text 84 36 toggle dsp; #X obj 246 273 env~ 8192; #X floatatom 246 310 5 0 0 0 signal_out - -; #X connect 1 0 2 0; #X connect 2 0 3 0; #X connect 2 0 7 0; #X connect 3 0 0 0; #X connect 3 0 0 1; #X connect 3 0 15 0; #X connect 4 0 6 0; #X connect 5 0 4 0; #X connect 6 0 3 1; #X connect 7 0 8 0; #X connect 15 0 16 0; ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] installing pd-extended on Ubuntu 12.04
On 05/18/2012 06:52 PM, Jared Nielsen wrote: Hi all, New to the list. I'm attempting to install Pd-extended on Ubuntu 12.04 without luck. No amount of Googling leads me to a working solution. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks. There's a 32 bit version for pd-extended-43.1 (beta) here http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/latest/. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] ubuntu linx: a couple of pd+jack errors
On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 23:04 +0100, João Pais wrote: error: JACK error: cannot lock down memory for RT thread (Cannot allocate memory) This means you don't have realtime privilege and cannot start jack in realtime mode. If you chose yes to have realtime capability while installing jack, you will have installed a file /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf, but to make use of that file you need to be a part of audio group. Group changes take effect after logging out/in. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] error while loading shared libraries: libtk8.5.so.0
On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 21:42 +0100, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: On 02/03/2012 09:16 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Try: sudo apt-get -f install -f means fix, at least in my head :) It says 0 installed, 0 removed and 6 not upgraded. but Pd still complains about missing libraries (one by one, regretfully) Or did you mean sudo apt-get -f install _something_? You could try installing puredata to get it's dependencies installed. Could be you need to install tk8.5 manually. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] Pd-extended 0.43.1 beta builds
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 23:15 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: At this point, the Pd-extended 0.43.1 builds are definitely beta quality. I have fixed all bugs that I could find, and I just taught a class with it. Its working well. Please try it out with your patches and let me know what you find: http://autobuild.puredata.info/auto-build/latest/ .hc Just wanted to point out that the package for wheezy (i386) has an unmet dependency: x-ttcidfont-conf After googling a bit it appears it has been removed.. http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/x-ttcidfont-conf.html ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] Ask pd to quit (nogui)
On 2012-01-25 10:56, Charles Goyard wrote: Hi, I swear I tried and it did not work ;). Ok it works, thanks Hans. btw, where's the full reference for these pd message ? If you have pd-extended, it would be in the help browser help-browser: manuals - pd-msg ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] 0.43 Audio problems trying Pd-0.42.5-extended on Ubuntu Oneiric ?
On 2012-01-25 00:07, tim vets wrote: but then I got a pd-extended that can't load any of the externals. This is the libdir thing. Rename the file ~/.pdextended (or whatever it is called - something with pd) to something else and try again. If you use the same configuration file for 0.43 as you use for 0.42, it won't work. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
Re: [PD] install Pd on ubuntu without internet; video-playback codec windows?
Why not plug it into the internet? You'll need to install at least tk8.5 and tcllib (or is it tvl8.5?) Linux without internet is pretty crippled when you're trying to install software. On 12/04/2011 01:36 AM, Johnny Mauser wrote: Dear list! i am trying to install pd-extended 0.42.5 on ubuntu 10.04 and am a total beginner with any linux. I was so happy to manage to install ubuntu, but now the Package Installer asks for more and more dependencies. My machine is not allowed to connect to internet, and i go crazy copying all the dependencies via usb stick from this internet-pc to performance-pc! How to easy-install Pd? I am trying linux, 'cause my patch has problems playing multible videos on windows. I use foto-jpeg decoded videos with quicktime for window, because i found that quicktime reads the framenumber correct instead of direct show. live-cam input is quite stable, but windows freezes from time to time with playback of 5 videos. I have quite a fast machine and an ssd drive which should be able to do the task i thought. So: which video format works well with windows? how do i get pd-extended on linux working? please exuse my confusion, too much operating system problems today; too less Pd... joson ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
[PD] settings for Pure Data broken?
I've been using Pure Data with planetccrma for a little while now, and I've tried out fc9, fc10 and Centos 5.3 as platforms. I have had some similar problems on all of them, except I got PD working completely without DIO-errors only on Centos. At first this led me to believe it had something to do with Pulseaudio, since Centos comes without it. Now, after experimenting more with the settings for PD I am more inclined to believe it is a problem with PD. These are the problems I've had: 1. Connections to jack does not start automaticly. (solved) First I used different combinations of these flags while launching the program: -jack -channels 8 -r 48000 -blocksize 256. (I am not sure if any of them really do anything for the audio connection, except -jack, since the specific audio settings are done in Jack internally. I have noticed that the latency for midi will only sync with the latency for audio if I use the flag for -blocksize with a matching value to that used in Jack settings, in my case 256.) The flags did not work well, or at all. On Fedora, my system would sometimes become almost completely frozen if the auto-connection worked. Massive DIO-errors. On Centos, PD would simply not connect. I had to do it manually in the menu each time. Then I started messing with .pdsettings, found in the users home directory. I got PD to autoconnect to jack, without any flags. These were the settings I had to add/change: audioapi: 5 (unchanged) noaudioin: False (this was set to TRUE) audioindev1: 2 (added this line) noaudioout: False (this was set to TRUE) audiooutdev: 2 (added this line) audiobuf: 10 (changed it to 10, originally 50) rate: 48000 (and this was 44100) ... flags : (made sure to leave this blank since the flags seemed not to work from here. Not even the -rt flag.) So by including this in the .pdsettings file, and adding these flags to the launcher command path: -rt -alsamidi I now have a functional Pure Data on my CentOS. (remains to be seen it the same goes for Fedora). 2. Loading extra library is tricky Lately I have needed to use only one external library, namely ext13. So, I have only installed PD (0.39-3extended-rc5) + this library. It loads fine, but I am initially unable to use 'r13' (alias 'receive13'). The way I go about it is I make another object called 'send13' (included in the same library), which works fine. Then I retry making one named 'r13' or 'receive13'. Sometimes I have to repeat this order of execution until I get 'r13' to initialize properly, after which it seems to work for the rest of the session. This is a little annoying, of course. Anyone know what this is about? And if anyone has any insight to the problems with .pdsettings, please tell... _ Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live™ Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
