Re: [PD] Data Quantization

2010-03-25 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
On 2010-03-25 00:21, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: [metro] [receive your_incoming_data]| /|/| /| /[f] so the original author meant time quantization (?). anyhow, if you want proper data then the above patch is a bit naive, as it is totally ignoring the nyquist-shannon

Re: [PD] question about netclient and netserver

2010-03-25 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
On 2010-03-24 16:30, Roman Haefeli wrote: Yeah, I saw it in #dataflow. Are you also planning to address the buffer overrun problem? i try not to run into it in the first place. fgmsdar# IOhannes PS: (forgot to send this email yesterday) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

[PD] iemnet (was Re: question about netclient and netserver)

2010-03-25 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
On 2010-03-24 17:08, martin.pe...@sympatico.ca wrote: zmoelnig wrote: PS: for what it is worth: i have forked mrpeach/net yesterday, with the aim If you're going to do that, I think you should change their names, otherwise confusion will reign. the names are just perfect :-) on the

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd? (was: Pd, Max/Msp, Reaktor, Plogue Bidule... How do these compare?)

2010-03-25 Thread Michal Seta
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Alexandre Porres por...@gmail.com wrote: I feel Max produce a smoother audio than Pd. Didit So, did anybody get to this and finished up the discussion (I didn't see it, sorry)? Anyway, it doesn't make sense to me. yeah, this an interesting discussion that

Re: [PD] iemnet (was Re: question about netclient and netserver)

2010-03-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Mar 25, 2010, at 4:26 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: On 2010-03-24 17:08, martin.pe...@sympatico.ca wrote: zmoelnig wrote: PS: for what it is worth: i have forked mrpeach/net yesterday, with the aim If you're going to do that, I think you should change their names, otherwise

Re: [PD] build zexy i386 on snow leopard

2010-03-25 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I think you can do this, and then they'll work: [import hexloader] .hc On Mar 24, 2010, at 9:13 PM, Rich E wrote: Anyone know how to do this? I want to get the library so ~, ~ etc. work along with pd-extended. This is how I got them before. I tried: make CFLAGS=-arch i386 LDFLAGS=-arch

Re: [PD] mp3cast~ on ubuntu 9.10 crash pd

2010-03-25 Thread Nicolas Montgermont
ok so now i've recompiled with the -c option thanks to mathieu, here is the new backtrace of the crash: (gdb) bt #0 0x0012d422 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x002874d1 in raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0x0028a932 in abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #3 0x002bdee5 in ?? ()

Re: [PD] question about netclient and netserver

2010-03-25 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 17:23 +, martin.pe...@sympatico.ca wrote: reduzierer wrote: From what I know, there is an internal buffer of ~4kB for the sending sockets in both netclient and netserver (I can't recall whether this buffer is built into the externals or is part of the network

[PD] [PD-announce] CFP - INTERACTIVOS?'10: NEIGHBORHOOD SCIENCE / community networks, free software and DIY

2010-03-25 Thread Medialab-Prado comunicacion
*Call for Projects and Papers Interactivos?'10: Neighborhood Science** * Deadline: *April 19,** 2010 ** *Dates of the workshop: *June 7 - 23, 2010 *Venue: Medialab-Prado in Madrid (Spain) With the participation of: Platoniq, Douglas Repetto and the work group formed by Andrés Burbano,

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette
So, I think this is an important myth to get over... Well that seems a kinda biased approach :) Whenever anybody says that Max sounds smoother than Pd (or viceversa of course) we should force him to answer these three questions: 1) define smoother, what the hell does it mean (is it less

[PD] [list-posminmax] find the position of the minimum and maximum in a list

2010-03-25 Thread Jack
Hello, Here an abstraction [list-posminmax] to find the position of the minimum and maximum float in a list of floats. Can be useful with ann library if you have several outputs and want to return the position of the highest value (with a [select] after) to categorize. I didn't find an equivalent

[PD] any mac OS terminal experts?

2010-03-25 Thread Andrew Faraday
Hey All I've recently started learning Ruby (on Ubuntu 9.04), part of what I'm trying to do is control PD through ruby, using the terminal. The main trouble I'm having now is that I'm mostly using a Mac OS X machine which doesn't recognize the 'pdsend' and 'pdreceive' commands (as the linux

Re: [PD] any mac OS terminal experts?

2010-03-25 Thread Andrew Turley
You should be able to run them from the command line. When you say that you are opening the files, do you mean you're clicking on them in the Finder? As you've said, that will just open up a terminal window. Also, these commands just communicate with strings over a TCP socket. If you're

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Thu, 3/25/10, Matteo Sisti Sette matteosistise...@gmail.com wrote: From: Matteo Sisti Sette matteosistise...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd? To: por...@gmail.com Cc: PD list pd-list@iem.at Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 6:17 PM So, I think this is an

Re: [PD] any mac OS terminal experts?

2010-03-25 Thread ub
they are probably just not in your PATH. try and copy both files into /usr/local/bin/ ciao, ub Andrew Faraday schrieb: Hey All I've recently started learning Ruby (on Ubuntu 9.04), part of what I'm trying to do is control PD through ruby, using the terminal. The main trouble I'm having now

[PD] tcpserver/client question

2010-03-25 Thread Ivica Ico Bukvic
Ok, I tried now working with the tcpserver/client model and am unable to solve following problem: when a tcpclient (or server) outputs a long string, it splits is for some reason into two separate lines (perhaps that is how the buffer wraps around?). Adjusting buf size makes no difference. I

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread colet . patrice
hello, In fact I've no clue about how max instrument patches sounds, only using it for livelooping, but I and other musicians like me didn't like the sonority of netpd for example, because rendered texture are poor, only one sytnh sound good (I don't remember which one), and once we've

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette
colet.patr...@free.fr escribió: in despite a lot of efforts to have tools for making music with pd, there's no way to make something smooth enough to be commercial, unless cheating with some steinberg or direct x stuff, That doesn't seem strange to me: I guess all the sound processing

Re: [PD] any mac OS terminal experts?

2010-03-25 Thread Dan Wilcox
On Mar 25, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Andrew Faraday wrote: Hey All I've recently started learning Ruby (on Ubuntu 9.04), part of what I'm trying to do is control PD through ruby, using the terminal. The main trouble I'm having now is that I'm mostly using a Mac OS X machine which doesn't

Re: [PD] any mac OS terminal experts?

2010-03-25 Thread Andrew Turley
So first off, you don't need to call them with 'open' from the command line. You can just run them directly like any other command, like this: echo a b c 1 2 3; | /Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pdsend 3939 The command reads the standard input and sends the data to PD.

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread martin.peach
matteosistisette wrote: colet.patr...@free.fr escribió: in despite a lot of efforts to have tools for making music with pd, there's no way to make something smooth enough to be commercial, unless cheating with some steinberg or direct x stuff, That doesn't seem strange to me: I guess all

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread volker böhm
On 25.03.2010, at 19:55, martin.pe...@sympatico.ca martin.pe...@sympatico.ca wrote: matteosistisette wrote: colet.patr...@free.fr escribió: in despite a lot of efforts to have tools for making music with pd, there's no way to make something smooth enough to be commercial, unless

Re: [PD] Pd-list Digest, Vol 60, Issue 101

2010-03-25 Thread Alexandre Porres
I'd like to hear something composed by a king of pd patches, for the fun. have fun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA4PbPKZuwk Oh, by the way, as I said, usually, programmers work in partnership with composers, as the case above. Both worked together in the 80's at IRCAM (with max) and still do

[PD] DirectShow pix_film unusable - was: Re: GEM: forcing the use of Quicktime with pix_flim??

2010-03-25 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette
Hi, So does anybody use [pix_film] on Windows with DirectShow (as opposed to QuickTime) and get decent performance? Whenever I send an [open ( message to a pix_film, it starts eating up a lot of CPU and it never stops afterwards, even if I send it [auto 0( and/or disconnect the gemhead from

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread vade
Not a DSP guy (video guy), but I've heard the same exact complaints of Max/MSP - that other commercial apps have a smoother sound generally, even with simple patches. Since Max used a version of PD at some point for the DSP stuff, I'd imagine they would be in general about the same, but what

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread martin.peach
vboehm wrote:point) oha, myth-alarm! max (still) uses 32-bits. Yeah I guess you're right. In the Max sdk docs they sometimes refer to 32-bit floats as 'doubles'. e.g. The other options are A_FLOAT for doubles, A_SYM for symbols, and A_GIMME,... but the Max atom is essentially identical to

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread Roman Haefeli
Hi Patko I'm so sad to hear that you don't seem to like those sounds at all. But thanks for the feedback. On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 19:36 +0100, colet.patr...@free.fr wrote: In fact I've no clue about how max instrument patches sounds, only using it for livelooping, but I and other musicians

[PD] Local Variables in GUI Properties (receive-symbol)

2010-03-25 Thread Ben Baker-Smith
Hello, Is there a way to use local variables ($0) in GUI send-symbol / receive-symbol properties? If I just put in $0 it interprets it as 0, and I can't set it after creation because there will be multiple copies of the abstraction present in a patch and I don't want them all to be set to the

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread martin brinkmann
colet.patr...@free.fr wrote: didn't like the sonority of netpd for example, because rendered texture are poor, only one sytnh sound good the reason might be that netpd is 'pd-vanilla', and there are not so much techniques used for getting smooth(er) sound (afair), like bandlimited oscs and

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread martin.peach
mnb wrote: colet.patr...@free.fr wrote: didn't like the sonority of netpd for example, because rendered texture are poor, only one sytnh sound good the reason might be that netpd is 'pd-vanilla', and there are not so much techniques used for getting smooth(er) sound (afair), like

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread martin brinkmann
martin.pe...@sympatico.ca wrote: If a basic [osc~] sounds like 8 bits I think maybe you need a better sound card. ;) i did not mean that literally ;) and i like 'lo-fi-sound'. bis denn! martin ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and

Re: [PD] any mac OS terminal experts?

2010-03-25 Thread Andrew Turley
In Ruby you should be able to do this: myvar = 42 s.puts(#{myvar} ;) andy On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Andrew Faraday jbtur...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks a bunch for this, it is, effectively, what I wanted to do with pdsend and pdreceive. The only problem now is sending a variable I've

Re: [PD] any mac OS terminal experts?

2010-03-25 Thread Andrew Faraday
Thanks a bunch for this, it is, effectively, what I wanted to do with pdsend and pdreceive. The only problem now is sending a variable I've defined via this method, as opposed to the variable name, and I'm sure that's just 'cause I'm new to ruby. Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:16:07 -0700

Re: [PD] any mac OS terminal experts?

2010-03-25 Thread Andrew Faraday
Cheers for that, I would have found it sooner or later, we should probably mark this OT by now 'cause we're outside of pd talk, but this is really helpful, thanks. I'm slowly but surely getting it. Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:19:25 -0700 Subject: Re: [PD] any mac OS terminal experts? From:

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 21:05 +, martin.pe...@sympatico.ca wrote: mnb wrote: colet.patr...@free.fr wrote: didn't like the sonority of netpd for example, because rendered texture are poor, only one sytnh sound good the reason might be that netpd is 'pd-vanilla', and there are not

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread Roman Haefeli
mnb wrote: . (not so much like 'ice-cold fm-pads', more like '8-bit lofi with aliasing'.) If you intentionally want that 8-bit lofi aliasing feeling, then yeah. Roman ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread martin brinkmann
Roman Haefeli wrote: Actually, there vanilla-based bandlimited oscillators and some netpd-synths are using them. maybe the one good-sounding synth is one of them. and i remember some synths which use just phasor~-0.5 (which i also use quite often). bis denn! martin

[PD] Reproducing the THX deep note in Pd

2010-03-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Reading the whole discussion about smooth sounds made me think of this exercise: http://www.batuhanbozkurt.com/instruction/recreating-the-thx-deep-note Any Pd peeps interested in trying to reproduce the THX sound? I'd really be interested in comparing the result to the original, as well as

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread Alexandre Porres
* I'd like to hear something composed by a king of pd patches, for the fun.* have fun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA4PbPKZuwk Oh, by the way, as I said, usually, programmers work in partnership with composers, as the case above. Both worked together in the 80's at IRCAM (with max) and still do

Re: [PD] Recording Audio in Table to File

2010-03-25 Thread Ben Baker-Smith
Oh, sorry everyone. I don't deal with audio often, looks like I can just use [soundfiler]. -Ben On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Ben Baker-Smith bbakersm...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm recording audio into tables, but I want to have the option of saving the audio in a given table to a .wav

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread Tim Blechmann
in despite a lot of efforts to have tools for making music with pd, there's no way to make something smooth enough to be commercial, unless cheating with some steinberg or direct x stuff, That doesn't seem strange to me: I guess all the sound processing involved in creating _fullu_

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 22:45 +0100, Tim Blechmann wrote: in despite a lot of efforts to have tools for making music with pd, there's no way to make something smooth enough to be commercial, unless cheating with some steinberg or direct x stuff, That doesn't seem strange to me: I guess

Re: [PD] build zexy i386 on snow leopard

2010-03-25 Thread Rich E
Great! I had forgotten to load hexloader as a library. Any reason why it isn't loaded by default in pd extended? I just added hexloader to the startup flags and the zexy objects load fine. Rich On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.atwrote: I think you can do

Re: [PD] iemnet (was Re: question about netclient and netserver)

2010-03-25 Thread Roman Haefeli
Hi IOhannes I've troubles compiling the iemnet external tcpsend: $ make cc -DPD -I../../../pd/src -Wall -W -g -fPIC -O6 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -o tcpsend.o -c tcpsend.c In file included from tcpsend.c:26: iemnet.h: In function ‘debug_dummy’: iemnet.h:117: warning: unused parameter

[PD] mp3cast~ on ubuntu 9.10 crash pd

2010-03-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
ok so now i've recompiled with the -c option thanks to mathieu, you mean -g #12 mp3cast_connect (x=0x39dff4, hostname=0x8596730, fportno=9001) at mp3cast~.c:650 this means that it crashed during Authorization: Basic %s\r\n, which is the second bug I talked about in my previous mail.

Re: [PD] mp3cast~ on ubuntu 9.10 crash pd

2010-03-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
in the end, this possibly triple bug report belongs more on pd-list than in private mails. On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: il y a trop de sprintf dans mp3cast_connect pour qu'on puisse facilement identifier lequel. actually, not

Re: [PD] Reproducing the THX deep note in Pd

2010-03-25 Thread Andy Farnell
Yep I did that as an exercise way back. Lost the code and wavs now sorry to say :( But, yes it did show up the weakness of Pd oscils when compared to Csound - somewhat muddier, with a slight distortion when using so many. IIRC its a saw/string like wave and I made it bandlimited by filling

Re: [PD] Reproducing the THX deep note in Pd

2010-03-25 Thread Andy Farnell
BTW, another great test of oscillators, I've mentioned before on this list, is Rissets 'arpeggio' (diffraction) instrument. On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:43:58 -0700 (PDT) Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: Reading the whole discussion about smooth sounds made me think of this exercise:

Re: [PD] Reproducing the THX deep note in Pd

2010-03-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Fri, 3/26/10, Andy Farnell padawa...@obiwannabe.co.uk wrote: From: Andy Farnell padawa...@obiwannabe.co.uk Subject: Re: [PD] Reproducing the THX deep note in Pd To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 12:37 AM Yep I did that as an

[PD] any mac OS terminal experts?

2010-03-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
require socket f = TCPSocket.new localhost,4242 f.puts hello world; you don't need pdsend and pdreceive. if you have Floats and Symbols in an Array you can simply do : f.puts myArray.join( ) + ; and similarly Integers and Strings can be passed off in the same way, and you'll get

Re: [PD] Reproducing the THX deep note in Pd

2010-03-25 Thread chris clepper
Pd's oscillator wave tables are 512 samples. Supercollider uses 8192 - not sure what CSound uses. The efficiency of the SC code allows for large sample tables and bigger FFTs, which certainly help make a 'smoother' sound. It would be interesting to hear what happens with 16x larger tables in

[PD] How to create abstraction without it popping up

2010-03-25 Thread ailo
I'm doing a lot of dynamic creation of objects and came to a point where I would like to create objects with unique names. Unique names, because I want to create objects within these uniquely named objects. So, as far as I know, I can only achieve unique naming by creating an abstraction. But

[PD] isosonic curves : level the perceptual loudness of different pitches

2010-03-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
In Fact, I just compiled 2 ways of doing the phons curves, by Robinson-Dadson, and the ISO226:2003. glad to see it's released and GPL'ed, but can you just add « with lots of help from Mathieu Bouchard » somewhere in the comments ? _ _ __ ___ _ _

Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

2010-03-25 Thread Mike Moser-Booth
>From my experience, I think the main issue that distinguishes these apps is the source material. Csound, for example, comes with a boatload of signal generators, many of which take care of difficult issues like aliasing internally. Though I don't use Reaktor much, it has some nice sounding

Re: [PD] isosonic curves : level the perceptual loudness of different pitches

2010-03-25 Thread Alexandre Porres
Well, I ain't released at all, I just a briefly mentioned. But in a portuguese mail list they were so excited about it I had to release and did thank and make references to all of who helped, especially Mathieu, of Course, without whom I'd still be stuck and not kowing what do to at all :) And as

Re: [PD] How to create abstraction without it popping up

2010-03-25 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Fri, 3/26/10, ailo ailo...@gmail.com wrote: From: ailo ailo...@gmail.com Subject: [PD] How to create abstraction without it popping up To: pd list pd-list@iem.at Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 4:40 AM I'm doing a lot of dynamic creation of objects and came to a point where I would

Re: [PD] How to create abstraction without it popping up

2010-03-25 Thread ailo
Jonathan Wilkes wrote: 1) Make a new patch and save it as container in folder named folder 2) In patch container put a [namecanvas $1-c], save and close. 3) Make a new patch named test and save it in folder 4) Now in patch test do this: [obj 20 20 container 1, obj 20 80 container 2( | [s