Re: [PD] Dynamic generation of $0-including objects?

2007-02-07 Thread Luke Iannini (pd)
Hm... I'm not sure if your patch was supposed to "work" or demonstrate my issue, Chris... thanks for making it regardless : ). Alexandre, not sure what you're suggesting either since [f $0] would output the "value" of $0 rather than the actual characters "$0", which is what I'm after. Either way

Re: [PD] Dynamic generation of $0-including objects?

2007-02-07 Thread Luke Iannini (pd)
Hahaha : ). It was generating odd messages here, like [test $-7614554]. But I'm on an intel mac using Pd-Extended autobuilds, so that's probably normal. Yes, I think a character escaping mechanism would be a good thing, though of course escaping is already used in the pd-fileformat so who knows

Re: [PD] Dynamic generation of $0-including objects?

2007-02-07 Thread Chris McCormick
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 12:16:02AM -0700, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote: > Hm... I'm not sure if your patch was supposed to "work" or demonstrate > my issue, Chris... thanks for making it regardless : ). It was supposed to solve your problem. > Thanks to both of yas! Should probably add this to pureda

Re: [PD] [OT] gallery installation sound

2007-02-07 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
We went to the Kimmel Center last semester in acoustics class, and this is exactly what they do. They have a huge foil on top that they raise or lower depending on the size of the ensemble. Now, they also have huge empty wells on both sides of the auditorium, and if they need wider reverb they o

Re: [PD] puredatabase

2007-02-07 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Feb 6, 2007, at 8:25 PM, David Powers wrote: On 2/6/07, Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And a suggestion: It might be good to debate here how the database should be designed to best do it job. Fx. would it be an idea to make a set of (not necessarily disjunkt/non-intersecting) categories

Re: [PD] graphical possibilities in GEM

2007-02-07 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Sounds good, but it doesnt' work for me. I get these errors on load: error: 1007-$2x: no such object error: 1007-$2y: no such object error: 1007-$2z: no such object .hc On Feb 7, 2007, at 3:28 AM, Patco wrote: Johannes Eckart a écrit : 3.)One specific question: is there any possibility to

Re: [PD] PD & CHAT

2007-02-07 Thread simon wise
On 5 Feb 2007, at 7:37 PM, Tim Boykett wrote: On the other side I was using some pdreceive (on a linux machine, now I use OSX and I cannot find it!) to take messages to find pdreceive on OSX open the Pd.app package -- it is in Contents/ Resources/bin/pdreceive - OSX aliases don't work poin

Re: [PD] "popping" from - and prepending to - a generic message

2007-02-07 Thread Chris McCormick
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 02:25:56AM +0100, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: > Is there a reasonably stright-forward way in pd-proper (I mean, without > externals) to do either of the following two things? > 1) Removing the first element of a message (NOT necessarily a list) and > returning the rest of th

Re: [PD] Dynamic generation of $0-including objects?

2007-02-07 Thread Chris McCormick
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 07:54:40PM -0700, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote: > I'm trying to generate objects within a subpatch using [obj( messages, > and I want those generated objects to have $0 as one of their > arguments, e.g. [myobject $0]. Using [obj x y myobject $0( gives > [myobject 0] (I know $0 i

Re: [Pd] Playing a bitmap

2007-02-07 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
So I'm using this now, and the problem I'm encountering is that I'd like to be able to control the frequency range of a picture without editing the picture itself. I'd like to find a way to have pix_pix2sig~, or some other object, read the image and render it to audio, but padding some number of

Re: [PD] "popping" from - and prepending to - a generic message

2007-02-07 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Check out the [list] object, it'll do what you want. .hc On Feb 7, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Matteo Sisti Sette wrote: Hi all, Is there a reasonably stright-forward way in pd-proper (I mean, without externals) to do either of the following two things? 1) Removing the first element of a message (N

Re: [PD] puredatabase

2007-02-07 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Feb 8, 2007, at 5:05 AM, padawan12 wrote: On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:19:08 +0100 Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I thought we (the potential users of the database) in this phase could brainstorm and discuss ideas on how we would like it. Good idea. One I thought of is to have a difficulty

Re: [PD] puredatabase

2007-02-07 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Feb 7, 2007, at 6:19 AM, Steffen wrote: On 07/02/2007, at 2.25, David Powers wrote: On 2/6/07, Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And a suggestion: It might be good to debate here how the database should be designed to best do it job. Fx. would it be an idea to make a set of (not nece

Re: [PD] Dynamic generation of $0-including objects?

2007-02-07 Thread Alexandre Quessy
Yes. Either use [f $0], or a [makefilename %s-%s] or [makesymbol %s-%s] with a [f $0] as argument. I think that [makesymbol] is supposed to be deprecated, but I prefer its behaviour to the one of [makefilename], and its name is clearer. -- Alexandre Quessy http://alexandre.quessy.net 2007/2/7,

[PD] Dynamic generation of $0-including objects?

2007-02-07 Thread Luke Iannini (pd)
I'm trying to generate objects within a subpatch using [obj( messages, and I want those generated objects to have $0 as one of their arguments, e.g. [myobject $0]. Using [obj x y myobject $0( gives [myobject 0] (I know $0 is not for messages, just thought I'd give that a try), and of course [list

Re: [PD] [OT] gallery installation sound

2007-02-07 Thread Charles Henry
If you can (and it's a big if), try to suspend your acoustic dampening panels above the heads of people. This will have a big effect on your reverb problems without disrupting the space in the hallway. I like the suggestions on this thread. very insightful Chuck __

[PD] "popping" from - and prepending to - a generic message

2007-02-07 Thread Matteo Sisti Sette
Hi all, Is there a reasonably stright-forward way in pd-proper (I mean, without externals) to do either of the following two things? 1) Removing the first element of a message (NOT necessarily a list) and returning the rest of the message 2) Prepending a symbol or number to a message But I mean

Re: [pd] shaper filter

2007-02-07 Thread padawan12
Great pulse/clav sound guys. On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:33:35 -0600 "Michael Garrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I run this, I get a inlet expected got float error?? (sorry no time to > debug, going for 'instant gratification'). Do a find-last-error and it should take you to the missing o

Re: [PD] [OT] gallery installation sound

2007-02-07 Thread Peter Plessas
Hi Kevin, one more strategy i found very helpful in the past: It seems quite logical to try to incorporate the acoustics of that special room, rather than trying to fight it. A mixture of a dry, low-volume nearfield with speakers pointing towards the listener and a reverberant ambience could m

Re: [PD] [OT] gallery installation sound

2007-02-07 Thread padawan12
For very quick and dirty cost effective treatment use a couple of big fiberboard partitions, the 6ft kind you get to separate office cubes. Put them at 30-50 degrees to each other and place your speakers in the "focal point". Also, turn it down. The best defence against reverb is to greatly lowe

Re: [PD] [OT] gallery installation sound

2007-02-07 Thread Malte Steiner
Alternatively, you could acoustically treat the space using acoustic foam or rigid fiberglass. This page has tons of good info: http://www.ethanwiner.com/acoustics.html Ben Alternativly you can use some cloth which might be cheaper or free from theatrical places. But if time left and concep

Re: [PD] [OT] gallery installation sound

2007-02-07 Thread Florian Kuehnle
Am 07.02.2007 um 20:12 schrieb Kevin McCoy: Low ends tend to get very muddy and the highs and mids spill all over the place. Are there certain tricks I could use in mixing or placement/kinds of speakers to preserve the highs and mids better in a difficult space? This might be a difficult

Re: [PD] [OT] gallery installation sound

2007-02-07 Thread Ben Saylor
I haven't done any sound installations, but in thinking about a particular space had some ideas for dealing with these acoustical issues. You could design the sound for the space, working with rather than against the acoustics. If possible, you could capture the impulse response of the space

Re: [PD] [OT] gallery installation sound

2007-02-07 Thread David Powers
On 2/7/07, Kevin McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: there are many sound scientists and artists on the list so I thought I would ask if anyone knows of resources to look at for dealing with these kinds of issues? How are other artists sorting these things out? Any links or recommendations would b

Re: [PD] Live Apectrum Analyzer

2007-02-07 Thread padawan12
That's gorgeous. It runs fast on the 550MHz machine here. Shame about the baudline_jack though, it just crashes, so the only input that works is /dev/audio On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:27:28 +0100 (CET) Erich Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > just got a link from a friend to this software s

RE: [pd] shaper filter

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Garrett
When I run this, I get a inlet expected got float error?? (sorry no time to debug, going for 'instant gratification'). mcg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patco Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:43 AM To: hard off; pd-list@iem.at Subje

Re: [PD] puredatabase

2007-02-07 Thread padawan12
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:19:08 +0100 Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought we (the potential users of the database) in this phase > could brainstorm and discuss ideas on how we would like it. > Good idea. One I thought of is to have a difficulty/level attribute. Some examples are too hard

[PD] [OT] gallery installation sound

2007-02-07 Thread Kevin McCoy
Hello all, Apologies for the ot post; I've got my final thesis show coming up in early April and I'm doing all sound work using Pd. The gallery space I am using is actually quite poor for acoustics, as it's got a concrete floor and metal roofing. It's relatively small though - two hallways each

[PD] creation of a random-line in Gem

2007-02-07 Thread Johannes Eckart
here´s a patch for creating a line in Gem by ramdom-coordinates for x et y. it´s far away from perfect or something, but i am a beginner, so, please don´t laught :) I don´tknow if it will work just as an attachment, if not how would it be the best way to post to the community? thanks for your li

Re: [pd] shaper filter

2007-02-07 Thread Patco
hard off a écrit : .but for the moment here is the basic patch if u care. Excellent! It reminds me the sound of a famous song I don't remember the name, I tried to make the sequence of this song gimmick in the attached patch #N canvas 120 84 807 552 10; #N canvas 0 22 458 308 (subpatch) 0; #

Re: [PD] gem - feedback & perspective

2007-02-07 Thread Thoralf Schulze
hi, just realised that anti-aliasing settings also tend to interfere with feedback: enabling any sort of anti-aliasing via |FSAA x( fscks up clean feedback on my geforce 5700 with the 1.0.8776 driver blob. with kind regards, thoralf.

Re: [PD] Live Apectrum Analyzer

2007-02-07 Thread Erich Berger
hi, just got a link from a friend to this software spectrum analyzer: http://www.baudline.com/ best e - http://randomseed.org On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Thomas Mayer wrote: Hello, thanks for all your suggestions, TAPESTREA looks great, but I'm just intrigued by the patch of

Re: [PD] flext, fluid~, readanysf~, and FLEXT_USE_CMEM (or don't)

2007-02-07 Thread Bryan Jurish
moin Conor, On 2007-02-07 01:12:05, Conor J Curran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> appears to have written: >> sounds familiar indeed... have you by any chance tried compiling your >> external without threads, linking (statically) to libflext-pd_s.a ? I >> don't know if you need threads or not, but at least

Re: [PD] Turing Machine

2007-02-07 Thread Steffen
On 07/02/2007, at 3.26, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On Feb 6, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Tim Boykett hat gesagt: // Tim Boykett wrote: Frank, This is completely mad! Glad you like it and I hope you're doing well. Wow, that is quite something. Yeah, this is so

Re: [pd] shaper filter

2007-02-07 Thread hard off
aaarrhh! watch your speakers if you play that patch, it will start making sound as soon as it is opened, and it's pretty loud. ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [pd] shaper filter

2007-02-07 Thread hard off
well, i downloaded the manual for the k2000, and from what i can gather, the shaper filter that my friend told me about is not actually a filter at all, but a waveshaper not very far removed from pd's [cos~] object, but with a couple of important tweaks. sounds ok. think i will string a few toge

Re: [PD] puredatabase

2007-02-07 Thread Steffen
On 07/02/2007, at 2.25, David Powers wrote: On 2/6/07, Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And a suggestion: It might be good to debate here how the database should be designed to best do it job. Fx. would it be an idea to make a set of (not necessarily disjunkt/non-intersecting) categories/ la

Re: [PD] osc~'s phase / second inlet

2007-02-07 Thread Steffen
On 06/02/2007, at 23.21, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Steffen hat gesagt: // Steffen wrote: I can't figure how the second inlet of osc~ work. As a test i tried to sum and subtract two osc~'s with the same frequency. If i send 0 to the second inlet of the two osc~ objects, the difference is 0

Re: [PD] Question reference patches

2007-02-07 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Jiri Heitlager hat gesagt: // Jiri Heitlager wrote: > i am building a project that uses several audio channels. That is all > working well. No I have one question. I have build one channel and put > that into a patch [pd channel] Each [pd channel] holds a [dac~ n]. If I > then copy the [

Re: [PD] Question reference patches

2007-02-07 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Jiri Heitlager wrote: > Hello, > > i am building a project that uses several audio channels. That is all > working well. No I have one question. I have build one channel and put > that into a patch [pd channel] Each [pd channel] holds a [dac~ n]. If I a [pd] is NOT a patch but a sub-patch. it's o

[PD] Question reference patches

2007-02-07 Thread Jiri Heitlager
Hello, i am building a project that uses several audio channels. That is all working well. No I have one question. I have build one channel and put that into a patch [pd channel] Each [pd channel] holds a [dac~ n]. If I then copy the [pd channel] and make changes in one [pd channel] changes a

Re: [PD] graphical possibilities in GEM

2007-02-07 Thread Patco
Johannes Eckart a écrit : 3.)One specific question: is there any possibility to work with fractals or the formulas of them on Gem? maybe any patches exist already? any hint would be great for me!!! Hello, you might be interested by this attached patch for drawing strange attractors, Patc