[PD] read sysex files (hex)

2009-03-15 Thread hard off
is there a way to read .syx files in pd? these are in raw hex format. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

[PD] change samplerate locally

2009-03-15 Thread hard off
to re-create the sound of a dx7 i need to change samplerate from my default (44.1khz) to 28khz. globally changing pd's samplerate to 28khz has the intended effect, but i want to be able to run other patches at 44.1khz while running my dx7 at 28khz. i naively tried adding this construct to the

Re: [PD] change samplerate locally

2009-03-15 Thread hard off
so, i thought about this more, and realized that 28hz is quite close to being 2/3 of 44.1 so, it MIGHT be enough to do the following: for every 3 samples, output the first sample, the second sample, and then instead of playing the 3rd sample, repeat the second sample. so, if my block looks

Re: [PD] 8ch diffusion

2009-03-15 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Achim Bornhoeft hat gesagt: // Achim Bornhoeft wrote: Can anybody help me to extend this patch from 4ch to 8ch? (I found it somewhere...) Or is there an even easier (better) way to do the same. I already tried [vbap] but the objects [define_loudspeaker] and [matrix~] are not

Re: [PD] Pd-extended on AMD 64

2009-03-15 Thread Nicanor Garcia
Hello, I'm trying to install the published .deb package for amd64 but I'm havint trouble with the needed libs. I'm using a amd64 machine with Studio 64 as OS. When I try to install with dpkg it tells me that I need to have liblame0 installed, but liblame0 is incompatible with libquicktime1 which

Re: [PD] Unified Library was Re: Call for GSoC mentors! March 9th deadline!

2009-03-15 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
There are lots of great ideas in all of those libraries, and I think Pd would be really well served having a big grand unified collection of libraries. But I think that we don't really know well enough how to do the whole thing right. So we really should think of this as some stepping

Re: [PD] 8ch diffusion

2009-03-15 Thread Achim Bornhoeft
Hello Frank, thank you very much for your patches. I'll have a look at it very soon. Because of [mtx_mul~] I would like to add iemmatrix to my path list. How can I set a new search path for a library when the folder is inside the PD package (because I can't open the PD Contents from the

[PD] The PdCon09 webpage is down ... am I too late?

2009-03-15 Thread danomatika
Does the PdCon 09 page work for anyone? Naturally, I forgot to apply and realized it is due today and now the page is down ... :( --- Dan Wilcox danomatika.com robotcowboy.com ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

Re: [PD] dyn~ and writesf~?

2009-03-15 Thread Thomas Grill
Thanks - i can reproduce the problem... the solution will take a bit, though. please stand by, gr~~~ Am 15.03.2009 um 03:46 schrieb João Pais: here it is. it needs my abstraction rec-name. in case you don't have pd-ext, I send it with this. just to repeat, output of this patch is an empty

[PD] steep filter?

2009-03-15 Thread João Pais
Hi, does anyone has a good suggestion for a very steep filter? Preferably something that cuts through the frequencies without any rollof at all? (if possible) I've tried the iemlib hp10_** filters, also 2 in a row, but the result is still too gradual. Putting 16 lop~ in a row make makes

Re: [PD] change samplerate locally

2009-03-15 Thread Martin Peach
hard off wrote: to re-create the sound of a dx7 i need to change samplerate from my default (44.1khz) to 28khz. globally changing pd's samplerate to 28khz has the intended effect, but i want to be able to run other patches at 44.1khz while running my dx7 at 28khz. I think that the sound

Re: [PD] Unified Library was Re: Call for GSoC mentors! March 9th deadline!

2009-03-15 Thread hard off
But I think that we don't really know well enough how to do the whole thing right i have good experience in doing a library wrong. :) i can at least point out the flaws in that so they don't get repeated. none of the libraries are very good general all-purpose toolkits though, in my opinion.

Re: [PD] change samplerate locally

2009-03-15 Thread hard off
hi martin, thanks for taking the time to reply. i can set pd to whatever samplerate i want in media-audio settings. i just checked again going through a whole bunch of values between 22050 and 44100 and they all work. my problem is that the samplerate is global, and i need it only to be local.

Re: [PD] steep filter?

2009-03-15 Thread hard off
it's not possible to filter without ANY roll-off as far as i know. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] steep filter?

2009-03-15 Thread João Pais
and close to that? just like the spectral trim in audition or something similar. it's not possible to filter without ANY roll-off as far as i know. -- Friedenstr. 58 10249 Berlin (Deutschland) Tel +49 30 42020091 | Mob +49 162 6843570 jmmmp...@googlemail.com | skype: jmmmpjmmmp

Re: [PD] steep filter?

2009-03-15 Thread hard off
chebychev filters look good, elliptic ones look better: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electronic_linear_filters.svg ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] change samplerate locally

2009-03-15 Thread hard off
actually, i just checked and that method i suggested before doesn't work at all. it's the same as the [phasor~ 28000] - [samphold~] effect. martin, i missed this part of your mail before: Unless you're looking for aliasing artifacts, wouldn't it be easier to use a multi-pole low-pass filter

Re: [PD] change samplerate locally

2009-03-15 Thread Martin Peach
hard off wrote: hi martin, thanks for taking the time to reply. i can set pd to whatever samplerate i want in media-audio settings. i just checked again going through a whole bunch of values between 22050 and 44100 and they all work. Yes you're right. I should have checked first ;) Maybe

Re: [PD] The PdCon09 webpage is down ... am I too late?

2009-03-15 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
danomatika wrote: Does the PdCon 09 page work for anyone? Naturally, I forgot to apply and realized it is due today and now the page is down ... :( try these instead: paper submit page: http://pdcon09.devolts.org/author/submit.php paper upload page (once you have submitted it):

[PD] Pd book sprint in NYC/Berlin

2009-03-15 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hey all, Adam Hyde, Derek Holzer, me, and others are working to organize a Pd book sprint to continue work on the Pure Data book that was started before. It is looking like it will be in early April (soon!) and both in NYC and Berlin, connected via video streams. We are still working

[PD] [PD-announce] Pd Instrument Building talk in Newcastle, March 19th

2009-03-15 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hey all, I'll be giving a talk at the Culture Lab in Newcastle this week on Thursday. I'll mostly be talking about the ideas behind the mapping and hid libraries for Pd: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/events/item/enabling-the-spirit-of-play-in-musical-instrument-building .hc

[PD] looking for state saving documentation...

2009-03-15 Thread David Schaffer
Hi everybody, I've been into pd for quite a while now and I feel like I'm slowly reaching musical maturity using this amazing environment, however, there's one big challenge I haven't faced yet: state saving and preset management. I heard about memento, semento, sssad but I'm having

Re: [PD] The PdCon09 webpage is down ... am I too late?

2009-03-15 Thread Alexandre Porres
the webpage is down, we are trying to get it up ASAP, a damn back up was schedulled for today... Anyway, you guys can still get the forms at http://porres.googlepages.com/Art.zip http://porres.googlepages.com/Workshop.zip http://porres.googlepages.com/Paper.zip then go to

Re: [PD] The PdCon09 webpage is down ... am I too late?

2009-03-15 Thread danomatika
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 19:58 +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: danomatika wrote: Does the PdCon 09 page work for anyone? Naturally, I forgot to apply and realized it is due today and now the page is down ... :( try these instead: paper submit page:

[PD] PD and cpu freq scaling in Linux

2009-03-15 Thread danomatika
Howdy, I recently got a new Thinkpad T500 with a duo core 2.53Ghz processor running Ubuntu Intrepid and was a bit annoyed that I was getting far more audio DIO dropouts in PD than my previous single core Pentium M 2Ghz Thinkpad T42p. Last night I realized that the cpu frequency scaling was

Re: [PD] Question on SSSAD and scalability

2009-03-15 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo Mike, yeah, that's a fundamentally different approach: Basically in aspect, you create a lot of global senders and receivers, while in sssad there are only two of these. I think, limiting the amount of globals used in abstraction libraries is important to avoid pitfalls with nameclashes and

Re: [PD] Unified Library was Re: Call for GSoC mentors! March 9th deadline!

2009-03-15 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, hard off hat gesagt: // hard off wrote: none of the libraries are very good general all-purpose toolkits though, in my opinion. i guess that's mainly because none of them have really been designed as general toolkits. there is heaps of good stuff in rjdj, but it's all for the phone,

[PD] PDCon09 deadline - Sao Paulo?

2009-03-15 Thread Ed Kelly
Hi chaps, Sorry I've been away, but life happened! Please please tell me the deadline for the Sao Paulo convention is Brazil time - I'll be up until 3am GMT finishing this at least. Luv u all, Ed Lone Shark: Synchromatic: Out December 1st 2008 http://www.pyramidtransmissions.com/store Also

Re: [PD] Unified Library was Re: Call for GSoC mentors! March 9th deadline!

2009-03-15 Thread Ed Kelly
Back again... I think those who are really interested in a library of objects, suitable for early users (I hate the term 'beginners') to explore acoustics, synthesis etc, will be interested in Metastudio 0.3, which will be released soon, with full help files for each object. I'll SVN it when

[PD] The PdCon09 webpage is UP

2009-03-15 Thread Alexandre Porres
http://convention.puredata.info is back on air hope you have seen it... cheers ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] The PdCon09 webpage is UP

2009-03-15 Thread marius schebella
and the deadline is at midnight? marius. Alexandre Porres wrote: http://convention.puredata.info is back on air hope you have seen it... cheers ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing

Re: [PD] The PdCon09 webpage is UP

2009-03-15 Thread Alexandre Porres
oficial deadline is about 3:30h from now. midnight UTC-3 but we are being flexible and comprehensive as a lot of people are in trouble... thanks for the submitions :) On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:23 PM, marius schebella marius.schebe...@gmail.com wrote: and the deadline is at midnight?

Re: [PD] The PdCon09 webpage is UP (use our submission system)

2009-03-15 Thread Alexandre Porres
It is up, but, all details are there... but for those who have read the page ( http://convention.puredata.info ) and are familiar with it.. just get the forms at http://porres.googlepages.com/Art.zip http://porres.googlepages.com/Workshop.zip http://porres.googlepages.com/Paper.zip then go to

Re: [PD] steep filter?

2009-03-15 Thread João Pais
yes, I had seen that graphic as well. but trying out the highpass iemfilters with noise, turns out that 10 hip~s work better. I looked in my list of pd-ext objects, but found no elliptic filters. are there any, or any way of getting their coefficients to use with biquad~? chebychev

Re: [PD] The PdCon09 webpage is UP (use our submission system)

2009-03-15 Thread Ed Kelly
i am one of those people who are in trouble! But...blessed chance, I am not alone! ed Lone Shark: Synchromatic: Out December 1st 2008 http://www.pyramidtransmissions.com/store Also available through the iTunes store --- On Sun, 15/3/09, Alexandre Porres por...@gmail.com wrote: From:

[PD] from Chile greetings

2009-03-15 Thread Jose Luis Santorcuato
Hi my dear friends, this is my first contact with the community...well i like this sinergy... i try go to the convention. Please visit my blog... with love http://arselectronicachile.blogspot.com see you José Luis -- http://arselectronicachile.blogspot.com/ www.myspace.com/santorcuato

Re: [PD] from Chile greetings

2009-03-15 Thread Amos Robinson
On a related note, greetings from Newcastle, Australia. I'm wondering whether there are any other people from Newcastle? On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Jose Luis Santorcuato santorcuat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi my dear friends, this is my first contact with the community...well i like this

Re: [PD] Pd book sprint in NYC/Berlin

2009-03-15 Thread ydego...@gmail.com
ola, For example, should we use GISS? Ekiga? Skype? the main difference between a video streaming solution and a video conference solution ( ekiga, skype ) is that anybody is able to see what's happening, e.g. that's it's public ( no need to authentify and join a conference room ).. so it

Re: [PD] from Chile greetings

2009-03-15 Thread Ed Kelly
And... your timing is impeccable...sort of. Come to Sao Paulo in July. You won't regret it. The best art, by the best people, and in a very best place. Or stay home in CHile, brain your drain! aaa- deadline approacheth! Lone Shark: Synchromatic: Out December 1st 2008

Re: [PD] Pd book sprint in NYC/Berlin

2009-03-15 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Mar 16, 2009, at 12:51 AM, ydego...@gmail.com wrote: ola, For example, should we use GISS? Ekiga? Skype? the main difference between a video streaming solution and a video conference solution ( ekiga, skype ) is that anybody is able to see what's happening, e.g. that's it's public ( no

Re: [PD] Pd book sprint in NYC/Berlin

2009-03-15 Thread ydego...@gmail.com
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On Mar 16, 2009, at 12:51 AM, ydego...@gmail.com wrote: ola, For example, should we use GISS? Ekiga? Skype? the main difference between a video streaming solution and a video conference solution ( ekiga, skype ) is that anybody is able to see what's happening,

Re: [PD] Question on SSSAD and scalability

2009-03-15 Thread Mike McGonagle
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Frank Barknecht f...@footils.org wrote: Hallo Mike, yeah, that's a fundamentally different approach: Basically in aspect, you create a lot of global senders and receivers, while in sssad there are only two of these. I think, limiting the amount of globals used

Re: [PD] Unified Library was Re: Call for GSoC mentors! March 9th deadline!

2009-03-15 Thread hard off
yeah sorry frank, i should have explained more clearly. i also think that no GUI is the way to go for functional abstractions. that was the big flaw of the DIY library i did, that the function of the abstractions was tied in with the gui component. i did it that way because i didn't want to