Re: [PD] Some more float weirdness/fun

2012-03-09 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2012-03-09 à 08:32:00, Roman Haefeli a écrit : But 0.1 still cannot be represented exactly by float64, can it? It can't. It also doesn't work for any other form of binary floating point. It's just that float64 is a lot closer to exact than float32 can be, and so on. 0.1 = 1/10 =

Re: [PD] nonlocal message passing scope

2012-03-09 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: Billy Stiltner billy.stilt...@gmail.com To: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at pd-list@iem.at Sent: Friday, March 9, 2012 1:49 AM Subject: Re: [PD] nonlocal message passing scope I got stuck redoing an lfo for polysynth where each

[PD] Web Netiquette Re: Making Musical Apps: a book about libpd

2012-03-09 Thread Julian Brooks
Just sent this to the eightycolumn list. I'm not going to even read any of the messages from the original post. I'm Sorry, ok. Oh dear... I am guessing you are pointing to the fact that libpd encourages the production of proprietary software and their distribution on closed apps markets?

Re: [PD] nonlocal message passing scope

2012-03-09 Thread Billy Stiltner
I hadn't ever seen that before. not sure what it does Ill have to try it out.The table does have to be unique to the main patch but used from several sub patches. Thanks for making me think about how to keep the main patch abstractable. I guess that calls for tacking on the lfo canvases $0

[PD] some observations and questions on Pd-ext 0.43.1 beta

2012-03-09 Thread Marco Donnarumma
Hi folks, yesterday I tried my Xth Sense system on a student's machine running Ubuntu 11.10 and Pd-ext 0.43.1 from the latest autobuilds. - Strangely enough, Pd would start with real-time flag at anytime (from a launcher of from a terminal without any flag). We had to do $ pd-extended -nrt to

[PD] Am I in time to propose the Xth Sense lib to be included in Pd-ext?

2012-03-09 Thread Marco Donnarumma
Am I? the library lives at the link below (along with the Xth Sense software repo). It includes over 100 objects, and only needs some more help-files to be completed, but for everything else it should be compatible with the guidelines. https://github.com/marcodsad/Xth-Sense-lib This collection

Re: [PD] Am I in time to propose the Xth Sense lib to be included in Pd-ext?

2012-03-09 Thread João Pais
everyone should always be on time, basically the files only has to be subverted into the depository. write to Hans-Christoph directly, and join the pd-dev list. He'll tell you what needs to be done (or point you to the relevant page somewhere in puredata.info). With pd-ext 0.43 coming out

Re: [PD] some observations and questions on Pd-ext 0.43.1 beta

2012-03-09 Thread Marco Donnarumma
(sorry to quote but this will keep the conversation on the list..) Thanks Ivica, it makes sense to try this out. I should have thought about it yesterday. The student and her machine are gone now, but I'll write her and ask to try this out. I still wish to know if anybody is experiencing

Re: [PD] Web Netiquette Re: Making Musical Apps: a book about libpd

2012-03-09 Thread i go bananas
smoking isn't really THAT bad. as long as you don't smoke too many, it just raises your odds on diseases that have pretty low odds anyway, ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] Web Netiquette Re: Making Musical Apps: a book about libpd

2012-03-09 Thread mark edward grimm
long as you don't smoke too many One is to many and a thousand is never enough. On Mar 9, 2012, at 7:55 AM, i go bananas hard@gmail.com wrote: smoking isn't really THAT bad. as long as you don't smoke too many, it just raises your odds on diseases that have pretty low odds anyway,

Re: [PD] some observations and questions on Pd-ext 0.43.1 beta

2012-03-09 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 12:06 +, Marco Donnarumma wrote: Hi folks, yesterday I tried my Xth Sense system on a student's machine running Ubuntu 11.10 and Pd-ext 0.43.1 from the latest autobuilds. - Strangely enough, Pd would start with real-time flag at anytime (from a launcher of from a

Re: [PD] Web Netiquette Re: Making Musical Apps: a book about libpd

2012-03-09 Thread Py Fave
the problem with cigarettes is being able to make your own. the same thing applies on software, as i see. 2012/3/9 mark edward grimm megr...@gmail.com long as you don't smoke too many One is to many and a thousand is never enough. On Mar 9, 2012, at 7:55 AM, i go bananas

Re: [PD] some observations and questions on Pd-ext 0.43.1 beta

2012-03-09 Thread Ivica Ico Bukvic
_ From: Marco Donnarumma [mailto:de...@thesaddj.com] Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 7:45 AM To: pd-list@iem.at Cc: Ivica Ico Bukvic Subject: Re: [PD] some observations and questions on Pd-ext 0.43.1 beta (sorry to quote but this will keep the conversation on the list..)

Re: [PD] some observations and questions on Pd-ext 0.43.1 beta

2012-03-09 Thread Marco Donnarumma
We had to do $ pd-extended -nrt to get rid of the real time. Why this happens? I experience the same. Ok, then I don't think this should be a feature, or is it already? - is Flatspace being removed from Pd-ext? I couldn't find it in the extra folder. I needed it for [line3] From

Re: [PD] Am I in time to propose the Xth Sense lib to be included in Pd-ext?

2012-03-09 Thread patrick
Sadly it's too late to include Xth Sense to Pd-ext, I already ask for the inclusion of PdMtl and Mtl Abstraction in the next Pd-ext (0.43). Quoting Hans ... I think its too late for 0.43, but 0.44 is definitely possible. With much less work, we can make it easy for people to find and install

Re: [PD] Am I in time to propose the Xth Sense lib to be included in Pd-ext?

2012-03-09 Thread Pedro Lopes
Sees that git would be the way to go. Why not then? Would the migration mean huge workload for the admins? I've happily switch from svn and other managers to git, and living happily with git on my server. best, pedro On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:47 PM, patrick pured...@11h11.com wrote: Sadly it's

Re: [PD] Some more float weirdness/fun

2012-03-09 Thread Martin Peach
On 2012-03-09 02:32, Roman Haefeli wrote: On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 18:03 -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Le 2012-03-08 à 11:47:00, Jonathan Wilkes a écrit : From: Roman Haefelireduz...@gmail.com That's a good example of the implications inherent in floats. What you call a work-around is actually

Re: [PD] some observations and questions on Pd-ext 0.43.1 beta

2012-03-09 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 09/03/12 14:44, Marco Donnarumma wrote: We had to do $ pd-extended -nrt to get rid of the real time. Why this happens? I experience the same. So do I Ok, then I don't think this should be a feature, or is it already? I wonder if this is somehow related to the ~/.pdextended

Re: [PD] Web Netiquette Re: Making Musical Apps: a book about libpd

2012-03-09 Thread András Murányi
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:42, Julian Brooks jbee...@gmail.com wrote: Just sent this to the eightycolumn list. I'm not going to even read any of the messages from the original post. I'm Sorry, ok. Oh dear... I am guessing you are pointing to the fact that libpd encourages the

Re: [PD] some observations and questions on Pd-ext 0.43.1 beta

2012-03-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Mar 9, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote: On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 12:06 +, Marco Donnarumma wrote: Hi folks, yesterday I tried my Xth Sense system on a student's machine running Ubuntu 11.10 and Pd-ext 0.43.1 from the latest autobuilds. - Strangely enough, Pd would start with

Re: [PD] Web Netiquette Re: Making Musical Apps: a book about libpd

2012-03-09 Thread alex
2012/3/9 András Murányi muran...@gmail.com: I can see your point concerning O'reilly and even with libpd but I'm convinced the threat is far from the need of four-letter words. Pd's editing and programming features shall stay open and continue to support the less professional and then all will

Re: [PD] Am I in time to propose the Xth Sense lib to be included in Pd-ext?

2012-03-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Thanks for posting that, Patrick. If you have never made a proper versioned release of your library, then its safe to say that its a long way from getting into Pd-extended. Here is the full process (which is what I do for the libraries I maintain in Pd-extended):

Re: [PD] some observations and questions on Pd-ext 0.43.1 beta

2012-03-09 Thread Marco Donnarumma
We had to do $ pd-extended -nrt to get rid of the real time. Why this happens? I experience the same. Its set in the embedded preferences for Pd-extended (/usr/lib/pd-extended/default.pdextended) I figured that made sense for most users of Pd-extended, but I'm willing to reconsider if

Re: [PD] Am I in time to propose the Xth Sense lib to be included in Pd-ext?

2012-03-09 Thread Marco Donnarumma
Sadly it's too late to include Xth Sense to Pd-ext, I already ask for the inclusion of PdMtl and Mtl Abstraction in the next Pd-ext (0.43). ooh :/ wow, PdMtl is out there since ages... I always thought why it is not yet included. Quoting Hans ... I think its too late for 0.43, but 0.44

Re: [PD] Am I in time to propose the Xth Sense lib to be included in Pd-ext?

2012-03-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Mar 9, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Marco Donnarumma wrote: Sadly it's too late to include Xth Sense to Pd-ext, I already ask for the inclusion of PdMtl and Mtl Abstraction in the next Pd-ext (0.43). ooh :/ wow, PdMtl is out there since ages... I always thought why it is not yet included.

Re: [PD] Some more float weirdness/fun

2012-03-09 Thread Charles Henry
But 0.1 still cannot be represented exactly by float64, can it? For any floatX unless X is infinity the number of floats that are not exactly represented is always infinite. Martin There is a countably infinite number of rational numbers and a uncountably infinite number of irrational

Re: [PD] pddroidparty netsend and netreceive

2012-03-09 Thread Gaël Dubus
Here you can download the recompiled version of ScenePlayer including some additional externals (see README.txt for the list), together with a simple example of communication between a computer and a mobile phone. http://www.csc.kth.se/~dubus/Android/NetTest.zip In this example, the phone

Re: [PD] Web Netiquette Re: Making Musical Apps: a book about libpd

2012-03-09 Thread András Murányi
2012/3/9 alex a...@lurk.org 2012/3/9 András Murányi muran...@gmail.com: I can see your point concerning O'reilly and even with libpd but I'm convinced the threat is far from the need of four-letter words. Pd's editing and programming features shall stay open and continue to support the

Re: [PD] Am I in time to propose the Xth Sense lib to be included in Pd-ext?

2012-03-09 Thread Marco Donnarumma
Thanks Hans. I still think it is doable for the Xth Sense lib, this is the current state of the lib according to the guidelines. OK_ it is cross-platform, I did 7 workshops in 2011 with this tools on different machines. OK_ the lib is in Libdir format OK_ it is already released as a standalone

Re: [PD] Am I in time to propose the Xth Sense lib to be included in Pd-ext?

2012-03-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Looks like lots of progress, that's good to see. :-) On Mar 9, 2012, at 11:49 AM, Marco Donnarumma wrote: Thanks Hans. I still think it is doable for the Xth Sense lib, this is the current state of the lib according to the guidelines. OK_ it is cross-platform, I did 7 workshops in

Re: [PD] Some more float weirdness/fun

2012-03-09 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2012-03-09 à 09:39:00, Charles Henry a écrit : Martin a écrit : For any floatX unless X is infinity the number of floats that are not exactly represented is always infinite. For a floatX format where X is the number of bits, every float is exact and there are at most pow(2,X) floats.

Re: [PD] Am I in time to propose the Xth Sense lib to be included in Pd-ext?

2012-03-09 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2012-03-09 à 15:20:00, Marco Donnarumma a écrit : wow, PdMtl is out there since ages...  I always thought why it is not yet included.  Yes, and there are also much older libs than that, that aren't included either. __

Re: [PD] Web Netiquette Re: Making Musical Apps: a book about libpd

2012-03-09 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2012-03-09 à 17:08:00, András Murányi a écrit : I meant myself, for example - and everyone who doesn't do Pd fulltime, thus cannot really afford to learn using the more complicated parts/methods. So to say, the barriers to entry shall be kept low. Nearly none of the Pd professionals use

Re: [PD] Am I in time to propose the Xth Sense lib to be included in Pd-ext?

2012-03-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Le 2012-03-09 à 15:20:00, Marco Donnarumma a écrit : wow, PdMtl is out there since ages... I always thought why it is not yet included. Yes, and there are also much older libs than that, that aren't included either. Yes indeed,

Re: [PD] Web Netiquette Re: Making Musical Apps: a book about libpd

2012-03-09 Thread András Murányi
2012/3/9 Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca Le 2012-03-09 à 17:08:00, András Murányi a écrit : I meant myself, for example - and everyone who doesn't do Pd fulltime, thus cannot really afford to learn using the more complicated parts/methods. So to say, the barriers to entry shall be kept

Re: [PD] Some more float weirdness/fun

2012-03-09 Thread Quim Llimona
It's well-known that floats can't be treated the same way as integers... but since PD is aimed at non-engineers and non-scientists I think it would be a good idea to implement the good comparison algorithms (i.e. checking against a threshold, etc) inside [==] and so, just to make patching easier.

Re: [PD] Some more float weirdness/fun

2012-03-09 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
From: Quim Llimona lemonz...@gmail.com To: pd-list pd-list@iem.at Sent: Friday, March 9, 2012 1:18 PM Subject: Re: [PD] Some more float weirdness/fun It's well-known that floats can't be treated the same way as integers... but since PD is aimed at

Re: [PD] Web Netiquette Re: Making Musical Apps: a book about libpd

2012-03-09 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
I meant myself, for example - and everyone who doesn't do Pd fulltime, thus cannot really afford to learn using the more complicated parts/methods. So to say, the barriers to entry shall be kept low. Nearly none of the Pd professionals use Pd «fulltime». Yeah. The question is, do you

[PD] Tobacco (was: Web Netiquette (was: a book about libpd))

2012-03-09 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2012-03-09 à 14:26:00, Py Fave a écrit : the problem with cigarettes is being able to make your own. The problem with cigarettes is smoking them. If it were not a problem, then the problem would be to grow them, because if you merely roll them, then you're still buying Drum tobacco and

Re: [PD] Some more float weirdness/fun

2012-03-09 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2012-03-09 à 19:18:00, Quim Llimona a écrit : It's well-known that floats can't be treated the same way as integers... but since PD is aimed at non-engineers and non-scientists I think it would be a good idea to implement the good comparison algorithms (i.e. checking against a threshold,

Re: [PD] Tobacco (was: Web Netiquette (was: a book about libpd))

2012-03-09 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2012-03-09 à 13:45:00, Mathieu Bouchard a écrit : The problem with cigarettes is smoking them. If it were not a problem, then the problem would be to grow them, because if you merely roll them, then you're still buying Drum tobacco and Riz Lacroix (RizLa+) paper from the same company as

Re: [PD] Web Netiquette Re: Making Musical Apps: a book about libpd

2012-03-09 Thread András Murányi
2012/3/9 Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca I meant myself, for example - and everyone who doesn't do Pd fulltime, thus cannot really afford to learn using the more complicated parts/methods. So to say, the barriers to entry shall be kept low. Nearly none of the Pd professionals use Pd

Re: [PD] Am I in time to propose the Xth Sense lib to be included in Pd-ext?

2012-03-09 Thread Marco Donnarumma
Looks like lots of progress, that's good to see. :-) :) A link to master in git is not a release. That is a moving target, it will always download the latest code from from git. A release has a version and a static download, and has been thoroughly tested. Think of any software you

Re: [PD] Tobacco (was: Web Netiquette (was: a book about libpd))

2012-03-09 Thread ALAN BROOKER
But the problem with cigarettes is smoking them. The companies selling them created the lifestyle and encouraged the craving. Basically everybody fell for that. Yeah one of the biggest cons going. As an ex smoker I can say the hardest thing for me is missing smoking itself. If one never took

Re: [PD] Am I in time to propose the Xth Sense lib to be included in Pd-ext?

2012-03-09 Thread Marco Donnarumma
Yes, I know. I set up a tag in my local git, but can't figure out how to update github, so to have the link you mentioned earlier. git push --tags -u origin master Ok, I also have the link to the static release. I feel conformed now :) -- Marco Donnarumma New Media + Sonic Arts

Re: [PD] Am I in time to propose the Xth Sense lib to be included in Pd-ext?

2012-03-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Mar 9, 2012, at 2:20 PM, Marco Donnarumma wrote: Yes, I know. I set up a tag in my local git, but can't figure out how to update github, so to have the link you mentioned earlier. git push --tags -u origin master Ok, I also have the link to the static release. I feel

[PD] Is there a way to block/filter Mathieu ?

2012-03-09 Thread mahatGma rabintrah
I would love to receive daily digest without Mathieu's unnecessary / arrogant comments. Is there a way to filter his posts? ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] Is there a way to block/filter Mathieu ?

2012-03-09 Thread András Murányi
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 21:35, mahatGma rabintrah mahat...@gmail.com wrote: I would love to receive daily digest without Mathieu's unnecessary / arrogant comments. Is there a way to filter his posts? ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and

Re: [PD] Is there a way to block/filter Mathieu ?

2012-03-09 Thread András Murányi
Sorry, I overlooked that you wanted to have the daily digest filtered. I guess the answer is no :) András ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] pix_film and readsf not in sync....

2012-03-09 Thread altern
we had three different videos 4 to 6 mins length. Format was mpeg video, and the audio was standard 44100 16 bits. The video rate was 29.97 and yes I think this was the problem I finally solved it using line to ramp the number of frames+1 in the time duration of the video. Unfortunately my

Re: [PD] Is there a way to block/filter Mathieu ?

2012-03-09 Thread ALAN BROOKER
Mathieu's comments are usually made in the spirit of inquiry and debate- I enjoy reading them as much as all the other posts here, so I (respectfully) disagree with your comments have said about him. Previously I have filtered people from pd-list after complaining about them to admin (for being

Re: [PD] pix_film and readsf not in sync....

2012-03-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
For synced playback of video and audio, you might try my 'framesync' library. Its a bit raw, but the core playback stuff works well, and I've used it in a few projects: http://puredata.info/downloads/framesync .hc On Mar 9, 2012, at 5:08 PM, altern wrote: we had three different videos 4

Re: [PD] about problem with pd on mac os lion

2012-03-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Each Pd-extended.app is self-contained, so they shouldn't influence each other. Try running it from the Terminal and see what it says there. Basically, copy and paste the line below into the Terminal and hit enter: /Applications/Pd-0.43.1-extended-20120226.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd

Re: [PD] Am I in time to propose the Xth Sense lib to be included in Pd-ext?

2012-03-09 Thread patrick
Hi Hans, grumpIt seems that getting into Pd-extended has come to mean let Hans maintain it for me, and this is no longer a viable option./grump I totally understand that! I just wanted to tell Marco that it was too late for 0.43. I will surely recheck Pdmtl Mtl for 0.44 - but last time I

Re: [PD] Tobacco (was: Web Netiquette (was: a book about libpd))

2012-03-09 Thread Andrew Faraday
I've had a horrible debate along these lines before. It's ethics, rather than technology. But does it make you a better person to have beaten an addiction, or a fool for becoming addicted? Would it be right for someone who hasn't been through that experience to have an oppinion on it anyway?

Re: [PD] Is there a way to block/filter Mathieu ?

2012-03-09 Thread Charles Henry
On 3/9/12, mahatGma rabintrah mahat...@gmail.com wrote: I would love to receive daily digest without Mathieu's unnecessary / arrogant comments. Is there a way to filter his posts? Now, if you'd just explain that you're quitting smoking, then that comment would be disregarded based on recent

Re: [PD] Am I in time to propose the Xth Sense lib to be included in Pd-ext?

2012-03-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Mar 9, 2012, at 7:34 PM, patrick wrote: Hi Hans, grumpIt seems that getting into Pd-extended has come to mean let Hans maintain it for me, and this is no longer a viable option./grump I totally understand that! I just wanted to tell Marco that it was too late for 0.43. I will

Re: [PD] pd-extended 0.43 ignoring ~/.pdextended

2012-03-09 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
~/.pdextended is working for me on Ubuntu. It is just that it won't save your path settings there any more. Use either the standard install path: http://puredata.info/docs/faq/how-do-i-install-externals-and-help-files Or for paths for a project, use [path] or [declare -path]. .hc On

Re: [PD] Is there a way to block/filter Mathieu ?

2012-03-09 Thread ydego...@gmail.com
mahatGma rabintrah wrote: I would love to receive daily digest without Mathieu's unnecessary / arrogant comments. Is there a way to filter his posts? ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

Re: [PD] tunetof scl2pd.py

2012-03-09 Thread Frank Barknecht
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 01:10:34AM -0500, Billy Stiltner wrote: what is the best way to run scl2pd.py from within pd? i forgot where shell is located. i want an open file dialog then pass the file name to scl2pd.py. i probably ought to just rewrite in a languagei understand like java and

[PD] High end, low end (was : some other topic)

2012-03-09 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2012-03-09 à 19:58:00, András Murányi a écrit : Then they have a certain high end, the more advanced topics within - e.g. dynamic patching for me, or libPd according to Julian. Now, someone can fear that the focus of developments could move towards the high end, leaving simple folks