[PD] run commandline from within pd

2012-02-06 Thread James Mckernon
Hi all, Does anyone know if there is a simple way to run an outside command from inside pure data on linux? I'd really like it if I could just click a button from within pd to run 'xset -r' and 'xset r' to turn keyboard repeat off and on again respectively. Thanks! James

Re: [PD] run commandline from within pd

2012-02-06 Thread ALAN BROOKER
perhaps try [shell] object (ggee lib I think) On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:21 AM, James Mckernon jmcker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know if there is a simple way to run an outside command from inside pure data on linux? I'd really like it if I could just click a button from within

Re: [PD] ubuntu linx: a couple of pd+jack errors

2012-02-06 Thread João Pais
ah, so it is really a Pd bug, and not some bad jack oder system settings? João Try a nightly build, I think there are some jack fixes. .hc On Feb 3, 2012, at 5:04 PM, João Pais wrote: Hi list, I was trying Pd-Ext (last stable version) with jack on ubuntu linx, and got a couple of

Re: [PD] ubuntu linx: a couple of pd+jack errors

2012-02-06 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-02-06 13:41, João Pais wrote: ah, so it is really a Pd bug, and not some bad jack oder system settings? dunno, but try a nightly build, i think there are some jack fixes does not necessarily mean this is a known issue that was fixed only

Re: [PD] run commandline from within pd

2012-02-06 Thread James Mckernon
Perfect. Thanks, both. On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:33 PM, ALAN BROOKER alan.brooker2...@gmail.comwrote: perhaps try [shell] object (ggee lib I think) On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:21 AM, James Mckernon jmcker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know if there is a simple way to run an

[PD] Equal-power crossfade?

2012-02-06 Thread Pierre Massat
Hi List, I need a simple equal-power crossfade between two signals. I asked the same question a few years ago, but i just can't remember how to do it... Cheers! Pierre. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

Re: [PD] run commandline from within pd

2012-02-06 Thread Pedro Lopes
I always use [shell] to trigger commands, but there is also [system] - both work by sending the command as a [command-to-tun( message. best, pedro On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:14 PM, James Mckernon jmcker...@gmail.com wrote: Perfect. Thanks, both. On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:33 PM, ALAN BROOKER

[PD] Analog square wave?

2012-02-06 Thread Pierre Massat
Dear List, I need a square wave to use as an LFO in a ring mod patch. Though i could simply use [expr~ $v10.5], I m wondering if I could get a smoother square wave. I tried to use a bandlimited square wave, but I don't have enough harmonics and the top of the wave isn't flat enough. Incidentally,

Re: [PD] Equal-power crossfade?

2012-02-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi, On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 02:22:34PM +0100, Pierre Massat wrote: I need a simple equal-power crossfade between two signals. I asked the same question a few years ago, but i just can't remember how to do it... This is used in rj's e_pan.pd: left = cos(p) * signal right = sin(p) * signal

Re: [PD] Equal-power crossfade?

2012-02-06 Thread Pierre Massat
Thanks Frank! Pierre 2012/2/6 Frank Barknecht f...@footils.org Hi, On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 02:22:34PM +0100, Pierre Massat wrote: I need a simple equal-power crossfade between two signals. I asked the same question a few years ago, but i just can't remember how to do it... This is

Re: [PD] Analog square wave?

2012-02-06 Thread tim vets
Don't know about real analog squares, probably way more complex, but attached is my simplistic approach: a soft-clipped triangle wave gr, Tim 2012/2/6 Pierre Massat pimas...@gmail.com Dear List, I need a square wave to use as an LFO in a ring mod patch. Though i could simply use [expr~

Re: [PD] Equal-power crossfade?

2012-02-06 Thread Jaime Oliver
Here's an argument for plain linear crossfade. I get power boosts with cosine crossfades... best, J On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Pierre Massat pimas...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Frank! Pierre 2012/2/6 Frank Barknecht f...@footils.org Hi, On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 02:22:34PM +0100,

Re: [PD] Analog square wave?

2012-02-06 Thread chris clepper
In an analog synth the square wave has some distortion to it: the rise is not instantaneous and there is some overshoot of the peak too. Over the years this was minimized by using high slew rate amp circuits and the like so an old Moog pulse wave is less ideal in shape than a new one. For a

Re: [PD] Trying to re-direct audio - Windows User

2012-02-06 Thread Mo
Hi, Tim. I'm gonna be trying out this when I get the chance. Pretty new (and sort of clueless) to all of Pd but it's worth a shot. Thanks Tim. Mo From: tim vets timv...@gmail.com To: Mo peachflowe...@yahoo.com; pd-list pd-list@iem.at Sent: Sunday, February

Re: [PD] Analog square wave?

2012-02-06 Thread Peter Plessas
* chris clepper cgclep...@gmail.com [2012-02-06 15:49]: In an analog synth the square wave has some distortion to it: the rise is not instantaneous and there is some overshoot of the peak too. Over the years this was minimized by using high slew rate amp circuits and the like so an old Moog

Re: [PD] Equal-power crossfade?

2012-02-06 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
There are some pan algorithms in the 'pan' library also, included in Pd-extended. They're all pd abstractions. .hc On Feb 6, 2012, at 9:29 AM, Jaime Oliver wrote: Here's an argument for plain linear crossfade. I get power boosts with cosine crossfades... best, J On Mon, Feb 6,

Re: [PD] Equal-power crossfade?

2012-02-06 Thread Ludwig Maes
Make sure to use the interval 0 - Pi/2, panning beyond will only crossfade back and forth On 6 February 2012 15:29, Jaime Oliver jaime.oliv...@gmail.com wrote: Here's an argument for plain linear crossfade. I get power boosts with cosine crossfades... best, J On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:53

Re: [PD] Analog square wave?

2012-02-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:43:29AM -0500, chris clepper wrote: In an analog synth the square wave has some distortion to it: the rise is not instantaneous and there is some overshoot of the peak too. Over the years this was minimized by using high slew rate amp circuits and the like so an old

Re: [PD] Equal-power crossfade?

2012-02-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 02:42:01PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hi, On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 02:22:34PM +0100, Pierre Massat wrote: I need a simple equal-power crossfade between two signals. I asked the same question a few years ago, but i just can't remember how to do it... This is

Re: [PD] Analog square wave?

2012-02-06 Thread chris clepper
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Peter Plessas ples...@mur.at wrote: For a digital square wave you would want to use band limiting to avoid alias artifacts which are quite severe for a square or sawtooth wave. As the frequency goes higher both of those waves will begin to look more like

Re: [PD] Equal-power crossfade?

2012-02-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:29:33AM -0500, Jaime Oliver wrote: Here's an argument for plain linear crossfade. I get power boosts with cosine crossfades... Your example is a bit broken (there is no panning going on at all), but I get the same result with a the fixed version or with [e_pan] in the

Re: [PD] Analog square wave?

2012-02-06 Thread Max
something like this? http://vimeo.com/groups/puredata/videos/36172013 Am 06.02.2012 um 18:03 schrieb chris clepper: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Peter Plessas ples...@mur.at wrote: For a digital square wave you would want to use band limiting to avoid alias artifacts which are quite

[PD] video documentation PdCon 2011

2012-02-06 Thread Max
Dear List, we are slowly leaking the edited video documentation of the PdCon 2011. here is a start: the talk by Charles Henry about PdCuda http://vimeo.com/channels/286821#36252132 way more to come. signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: [PD] Analog square wave?

2012-02-06 Thread Vincent Kaschner
Dear List, I need a square wave to use as an LFO in a ring mod patch. Though i could simply use [expr~ $v10.5], I m wondering if I could get a smoother square wave. I tried to use a bandlimited square wave, but I don't have enough harmonics and the top of the wave isn't flat enough.

Re: [PD] Analog square wave?

2012-02-06 Thread Bill Gribble
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 17:56 +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: However when using this as a LOW frequency oscillator, I would simply ignore the literature on bandlimiting and go with a pure digital aliased wave full force! :) Good practical advice... if you really start thinking about what is

Re: [PD] Analog square wave?

2012-02-06 Thread Martin Peach
You can use [mrpeach/sqosc~] bandlimited to a low frequency as an LFO. Since [sqosc~] is slew-rate limited according to the bandwidth limit, the peaks are absolutely flat and there is no overshoot, and the transitions are smooth. Martin On 2012-02-06 09:43, chris clepper wrote: In an analog

Re: [PD] Equal-power crossfade?

2012-02-06 Thread Scott Nordlund
Here's an argument for plain linear crossfade. I get power boosts with cosine crossfades... best, J You'll want to use linear crossfades for correlated signals (similar spectrum and same phase), cosine for non-correlated signals (noise, different frequencies, arbitrary phase, etc.). Of

Re: [PD] Equal-power crossfade?

2012-02-06 Thread Jaime Oliver
Your example is a bit broken (there is no panning going on at all), you're right. ... coffee excuse ... here is a fixed version in case someone is interested. the subject of the e-mail however, does not ask to pan, but to crossfade without loosing or adding power. What the example shows is a

Re: [PD] Equal-power crossfade?

2012-02-06 Thread Frank Barknecht
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 10:15:51AM -0800, Jaime Oliver wrote: Your example is a bit broken (there is no panning going on at all), you're right. ... coffee excuse ... here is a fixed version in case someone is interested. the subject of the e-mail however, does not ask to pan, but to

Re: [PD] video documentation PdCon 2011

2012-02-06 Thread Marco Donnarumma
That's lovely, thanks Max and all the team for this! Dear List, we are slowly leaking the edited video documentation of the PdCon 2011. here is a start: the talk by Charles Henry about PdCuda http://vimeo.com/channels/286821#36252132 way more to come. -- Marco Donnarumma New Media +

Re: [PD] Equal-power crossfade?

2012-02-06 Thread Pierre Massat
All very interesting stuff, thanks! I didn't need anything too special so i've adapted Hans' equal-power pan (I've turned it upside down to make a crossfader). I only needed it for the ring modulator patch i've just posted on my blog (

Re: [PD] Analog square wave?

2012-02-06 Thread Pierre Massat
Thank you all for your advice. The plain digital square wave doesn't sound well (I use it as an LFO in a ring modulator. I've just added some partials to my bandlimited square wave and now it works ok. I'll try [sqosc~] though. Cheers, Pierre. 2012/2/6 Martin Peach martin.pe...@sympatico.ca

Re: [PD] video documentation PdCon 2011

2012-02-06 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Yes, thanks! I've already watched the PdCUDA talk, very interesting. .hc On Feb 6, 2012, at 2:01 PM, Marco Donnarumma wrote: That's lovely, thanks Max and all the team for this! Dear List, we are slowly leaking the edited video documentation of the PdCon 2011. here is a start: the

Re: [PD] Equal-power crossfade?

2012-02-06 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2012-02-06 à 14:42:00, Frank Barknecht a écrit : On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 02:22:34PM +0100, Pierre Massat wrote: I need a simple equal-power crossfade between two signals. I asked the same question a few years ago, but i just can't remember how to do it... This is used in rj's e_pan.pd:

Re: [PD] Equal-power crossfade?

2012-02-06 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2012-02-06 à 13:13:00, Scott Nordlund a écrit : Incidentally I'm working on a frequency domain algorithm that forces mixed signals to be correlated and in phase, by summing their magnitudes. But it's no magic trick since it does this by inducing a time varying phase shift. This isn't the

[PD] midi problem under osx

2012-02-06 Thread Nicolas Montgermont
Hello list, I run into a special problem with MIDI input under osx... I am getting some MIDI inside Pd, the MIDI is coming from an interface-z card that is transducing a sensor. The midi info is on two control number for higher (12bit) precision. Sometimes the MSB value is not updated well,

[PD] [OT] Fink ... Force Build 32bit Libraries

2012-02-06 Thread m.e.grimm
I'm on 10.7.3 When I build libraries they are 64bit My pd-extended is 32bit I wish to build 32bit externals against 32bit libs Can I force Fink to build Universal libs? OR just 32bit? This would be without having a second fink installation. Someone might know be cause I can not seem to find any

Re: [PD] midi problem under osx

2012-02-06 Thread Jean-Marie Adrien
Hello i would try to force synchronization of incoming midi streams inside pure data according to my needs, ie downsampling a little if necessary so that MSB and LSB are consistent ... and give a call to interface-z for feedback. cheers JM Le 6 févr. 2012 à 21:15, Nicolas Montgermont a écrit :

Re: [PD] [OT] Fink ... Force Build 32bit Libraries

2012-02-06 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I haven't found that answer either... Looks like we need to get [gemwin] working on Mac OS X/64-bit. Other than that and tclpd setup, the 64-bit builds are working pretty well. .hc On Feb 6, 2012, at 3:38 PM, m.e.grimm wrote: I'm on 10.7.3 When I build libraries they are 64bit My

Re: [PD] Equal-power crossfade?

2012-02-06 Thread Scott Nordlund
Le 2012-02-06 à 13:13:00, Scott Nordlund a écrit : Incidentally I'm working on a frequency domain algorithm that forces mixed signals to be correlated and in phase, by summing their magnitudes. But it's no magic trick since it does this by inducing a time varying phase shift. This isn't

Re: [PD] midi problem under osx

2012-02-06 Thread Nicolas Montgermont
thanks for your reply, The problem is that midi data is a position feedback for the control of a motor, and when msb is stuck, the position command I give is wrong. I don't think the card is to blame cause the same card/patch/interface is working well on win XP. n Le 06/02/12 21:57,

[PD] robotcowboy 2.0

2012-02-06 Thread Dan Wilcox
Howdy all, Sorry I haven't been active on the list for a while. School gets in the way. As robotcowboy debuted at PD Con 07 and finished at PD Con 11, I'm happy to announce to you all: robotcowboy is dead. Long live robotcowboy! Change is good and it's time for robotcowboy 2.0. I'm

Re: [PD] robotcowboy 2.0

2012-02-06 Thread Maurice Rickard
Dan, That was one hell of a good set you did at the Garfield Artworks a while back. I'm looking forward to checking out your new stuff. http://mauricerickard.com | http://onezeromusic.com | http://yoctonaut.com/ Sent via RFC1149 On Feb 6, 2012, at 8:31 PM, Dan Wilcox danomat...@gmail.com