Re: [PD] making puredata headphone-safe

2011-08-24 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-08-24 02:33, Chris McCormick wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 06:48:05PM -0400, Martin Peach wrote: An [osc~] multiplied by will sound louder but it won't actually be louder than an osc multiplied by one (the amplitude at the output

Re: [PD] making puredata headphone-safe

2011-08-24 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-08-24 07:32, Richie Cyngler wrote: I don't get why no one is talking about reducing the signal level before dac~? because we are talking about a safety net here. everything done before the [dac~], you can easily circumvent within the

Re: [PD] making puredata headphone-safe

2011-08-24 Thread martin brinkmann
On 08/23/2011 11:47 PM, Richie Cyngler wrote: (whatever kind of sound gen you like) | [*~ 0.2] | \ [dac~] i think you should put a clip -1 1 before the *~ 0.2. otherwise, if you connect something like osc~ *~ 1 for example, you would get some very loud drilling sound at the dac~

Re: [PD] Dynamic patching with audio - review

2011-08-24 Thread abel . jerome
Hi, A new report of my researchs about audio dynamic patching techniques. The continuation of my previous reviews : http://abel.jerome.free.fr/pd/dynamic-patching/reviews/DynamicPatching_review-1.txt http://abel.jerome.free.fr/pd/dynamic-patching/reviews/DynamicPatching_review-2.txt

Re: [PD] #store and getting pixel data from a movie file

2011-08-24 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, ALAN BROOKER wrote: I hope to ask for some tips regarding obtaining values from a loaded image/movie file by using gridflow ? #store gets can get rgb values from a specified pixel position You can pass multiple pixel positions at once to #store and it's much faster than

Re: [PD] notes/questions from a beginner

2011-08-24 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Stephen Lavelle wrote: 1 - Inlets/outlets too small for me to accurately click on (touchpad) - checking on pd-dev, they can be visually reskinned, but their actual clickable size can't be changed.  [ so I guess this one has been responded to, but might as well repeat it ]

Re: [PD] notes/questions from a beginner

2011-08-24 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Stephen Lavelle wrote: 4 - is there a shortcut for deleting connections?  something like ctrl+click would save me a lot of time. BTW, if you select a set of objects, then cut it, then paste it, copies of the objects will reappear where the originals were, but they will

Re: [PD] making puredata headphone-safe

2011-08-24 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Hm... I'm not sure I understand the danger. Isn't this: [noise~] | [*~ 99] | [dac~] an implicit version of: [noise~] | [*~ 99] | [clip~ -1 1] | [dac~] ? Yes. Thus it makes square waves. Their power is : (integral of (±1)² on [a;b]) /

Re: [PD] Headphones question on pd list

2011-08-24 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote (outside of pd-list): If I do this, can't I be fairly certain that I won't get a sound with greater perceived volume than the clipped [noise~]--[*~ 99] that I started with? [...] I'm just talking about things that could potentially cause ear

Re: [PD] Headphones question on pd list

2011-08-24 Thread Charles Henry
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.cawrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote (outside of pd-list): If I do this, can't I be fairly certain that I won't get a sound with greater perceived volume than the clipped [noise~]--[*~ 99] that I started

[PD] Gem VJ Tutorial patches

2011-08-24 Thread Pagano, Patrick
Hey I am soliciting examples for entry level GEM patches that work on linux/windows and OSX that show how to mix a video or react to sound. I recall a set of them called Begenswelder? That had a real good example for a sound reactive GEM patch but I cannot find it in my files, Please refresh my

Re: [PD] Gem VJ Tutorial patches

2011-08-24 Thread Antonio Roberts
Hey, I use PD/GEM a lot for VJing using a version of this patch http://puredata.hurleur.com/viewtopic.php?pid=25492 It's definitely not a beginner's patch... One note about this patch: It only really plays videos, it doesn't do anything generative. Ant On 24 August 2011 21:07, Pagano, Patrick

Re: [PD] notes/questions from a beginner

2011-08-24 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Looks like you already implemented a lot of the features in DD that I've been thinking about: * decent zoom capability * customizable fonts * balloon tips (although I hate balloons and used a Firefox-style notification area which can also be accessed by the user) * ttk::notebook in a centralized

Re: [PD] Gem VJ Tutorial patches

2011-08-24 Thread Richie Cyngler
Hey Ant, I checked out your patch but I couldn't get it to open any video files. I tried .avi, .mov and .mpg on osX. thanks On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Antonio Roberts anto...@hellocatfood.comwrote: Hey, I use PD/GEM a lot for VJing using a version of this patch

Re: [PD] Headphones question on pd list

2011-08-24 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Without knowing anything in advance about the speakers being used, is there a way to construct some kind of [aural-faxbomb~] that outputs in the -1 to 1 range which could be used generally to at least get in the ballpark of what you want the maximum level of perceived loudness to be when

Re: [PD] notes/questions from a beginner

2011-08-24 Thread András Murányi
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 23:10, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: [...] * has anyone used tkzinc? On the one hand, all the new feature requests I've seen for future versions of tk canvas have the caveat that they are already implemented in tkzinc, (item grouping, transparency, full

Re: [PD] notes/questions from a beginner

2011-08-24 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Not sure yet-- I tried looking at http://bugzilla.tkzinc.org but it timed out. The screenshots look neat.  I suppose I could give it a test drive. From http://www.tkzinc.org/tkzinc/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Download: Tkzinc is available for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X platforms under the LGPL license.

Re: [PD] notes/questions from a beginner

2011-08-24 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hm... tried demos/zinc-widget, and got a crash with demo #2 under Use of open GL when I tried to zoom in on the logo. -Jonathan From: Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com To: András Murányi muran...@gmail.com; pd-list pd-list@iem.at Sent: Wednesday, August 24,

Re: [PD] multichannel instalation

2011-08-24 Thread Jaime Oliver
I haven't been able to get the Sapphire to output more than two channels through Pd (though it is supposed to be capable of 8). don't know this card but have you set the number of output channels to 4? I have tried making a multichannel patch, for eg [dac~ 1 2 3 4]. All that happens is I get

Re: [PD] Gem VJ Tutorial patches

2011-08-24 Thread philippe boisnard
Hello No problem to play video for me. Do you Have you the README because if you don't have gridflow, it's impossible that you can play any video. But I haven't the preview in the patch in OSX. p Le 25 août 2011 à 00:25, Richie Cyngler a écrit : Hey Ant, I checked out your patch but I