Re: [PD] a general discussion about which software to learn: pd, max, both... or else?

2007-10-15 Thread Si Mills
I came to Pd from SuperCollider. SC is very powerful and can sound amazing. Its power lies in the fact it is a object orientated language - if you want 500 oscillators you can just change a variable, rather than having to patch it by hand. I found I could do algorithmic stuff very easily

[PD] Pd-extended final release candidate - please test!

2007-10-16 Thread Si Mills
Hi I've noted a couple of bugs: * FFT seems to be broke on PPC. I just get nasty crackles. (Pb G4 / 10.4.10) * [blosc~] doesn't instantiate - You have to physically add a '~' to the external in the library to fix it. * [freeverb~] produces no sound thanks

Re: [PD] Pd-extended final release candidate - please test!

2007-10-16 Thread Si Mills
Honestly. Yep! On 16 Oct 2007, at 09:56, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: Si Mills wrote: Hi * [blosc~] doesn't instantiate - You have to physically add a '~' to the external in the library to fix it. i would like to see you getting a physical grip on the tilde in the library

Re: [PD] please test Pd-extended on debian-powerpc

2007-10-17 Thread Si Mills
Hi, Sorry this is on OSX ppc not Debian ppc :) S On 17 Oct 2007, at 15:37, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: On Oct 16, 2007, at 4:44 AM, Si Mills wrote: Hi I've noted a couple of bugs: * FFT seems to be broke on PPC. I just get nasty crackles. (Pb G4 / 10.4.10) * [blosc~] doesn't

Re: [PD] please test Pd-extended on debian-powerpc

2007-10-17 Thread Si Mills
menu, then About This Mac, then click the More Info button. These fields are all useful: Model Name Model Identifier Processor Name Processor Speed And anything else you want to add. .hc On Oct 17, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Si Mills wrote: Hi, Sorry this is on OSX ppc not Debian ppc :) S

Re: [PD] Pd-0.40.3-extended and Pd-0.39.3-extended on 10.5 Leopard

2007-11-16 Thread Si Mills
Hi Apple released 10.5.1 update today and it was hoped that it might solve this issue, but it doesn't seem to be any different. hopefully this will be rectified soon! thanks On 16 Nov 2007, at 13:07, bsoisoi wrote: Hey all, is anyone else having difficulties running either version of

[PD] Memento, OSC-route Pd 0.40.3-extended

2008-01-18 Thread Si Mills
HI all Has something changed with OSCX or Memento since 0.39.3 extended? I was going through the Memento manual/5-Tut and in 0.40.3-extended I keep getting: OSC-route: invalid message pattern aFloat does not begin with / errors. OSC-route: invalid message pattern aSymbol does not begin

Re: [PD] reverb for each grain

2008-01-30 Thread Si Mills
Sounds fun Are you using the [nqpoly4] object to make the granular engine? S On 30 Jan 2008, at 06:59, Kevin McCoy wrote: Not to mention, I hope you'll be showin' some clips of whatever you come up with... doing something like this is something I have had in mind for a while and I would

Re: [PD] fftease for macosx universal?

2008-02-04 Thread Si Mills
hi punchnik, you can find it here (its an attachment towards the bottom of the thread) http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-1280-fftease-39 use the original help files from the ppc package I guess this should be made available on the original FFTease page, though I'm not sure why it

[PD] Writing file to folder on OSX

2008-02-14 Thread Si Mills
HI I can't seem to write a file into a folder using [writesf~] So when I click the [open -bytes 3 /audio/foo.wav( message, presumably it should create a folder called audio with the file foo.wav in it? .But it doesn't do anything. Just doing [open -bytes 3 foo.wav( works fine and

Re: [PD] Best PD+OS/Hardware combinations for low audio latency?

2008-04-01 Thread Si Mills
Have you tried running Pd using Jack osx and Jack mode? I can get latency down to 7ms without crackles - this is on a meager old g4 powerbook best On 1 Apr 2008, at 09:18, Tim Blechmann wrote: So far, in Windows: I tried setting the priority to Realtime in the Task Manager and setting

Re: [PD] Best PD+OS/Hardware combinations for low audio latency?

2008-04-01 Thread Si Mills
7ms measured round-trip or setting in pd's audio dialog (which is merely a suggestion for the driver and iirc is completely ignored by the jack backend) well i set the buffer size in Jack prefs and let Pd follow suit. But either way its just better :) tim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PD] Pd-extended PPC autobuild Jack OSX

2008-05-22 Thread Si Mills
I noticed the other day that when selecting to run in Jack mode (with Jack booted) the system becomes unusably sluggish. This happens in the PPC version of 0.40.3 -extended that I downloaded the other day from Autobuild and Jack osx 0.77. I haven't tried one of the latest builds. I'm

Re: [PD] Pd-extended PPC autobuild Jack OSX

2008-06-11 Thread Si Mills
, so please test things once there is something new to test. :) .hc On May 22, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Si Mills wrote: I noticed the other day that when selecting to run in Jack mode (with Jack booted) the system becomes unusably sluggish. This happens in the PPC version of 0.40.3 -extended

[PD] [residency_buffer~] missing from fftease lib

2008-07-21 Thread Si Mills
Hi Does anyone know the whereabouts of this, or if at all it was ported to Pd? Its in the objects list, but doesn't appear to be in the download for Pd. I know it references (max)msp buffers, but would i be a lot of effort to switch that to pd's tables? This one would be very handy many

[PD] Fwd: finding the cause of clicks when using sssad WAS: saving state of a patch

2008-07-23 Thread Si Mills
I hope im not misunderstanding, but doesn't the s-abstraction way of using 'datastore' to change presets eliminate dropouts - Why is there a need for a ram disk? I mean is there a lag between hitting the giant message box and updating all the abstractions? I was inspired the other day by a

Re: [PD] New sssad.pd now in SVN repository - please test! [was: sssad slowness]

2008-07-28 Thread Si Mills
HI Frank, So in a nutshell, what is different about this? I got a bit lost following this thread :) best wishes ps. Hans - will this be included in the release of 0.40.3? On 27 Jul 2008, at 11:54, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote:

Re: [PD] displaying a filename

2008-08-06 Thread Si Mills
Hi A combination of [symbol\ and [stripdir] should do it S On 6 Aug 2008, at 12:31, Atte André Jensen wrote: Hi I have an abstraction that has loaded a sample with openpanel. Is there a way to display this filename in the abstraction (for visual fedback), preferrably only the

Re: [PD] problems with pd extended (0.40.3)

2008-08-06 Thread Si Mills
i have the same problem too I've been using [expr~ ] as a workaround eg. [expr~ $v10.5] s On 6 Aug 2008, at 16:22, martin brinkmann wrote: hi! i'm sorry if this has been asked (and answered) before, but i have not found a solution yet. (in the list archive) ~ ~ (and maybe other signal

Re: [PD] sequencer app for osx

2008-08-11 Thread Si Mills
Did you try this? http://iannix.la-kitchen.fr/ On 10 Aug 2008, at 19:39, Martin Schied wrote: I'm also looking for various midi and OSC sequencers (not only for pd) at the moment and have found some promising and some not-so promising applications: -Promising: Ardour is going to support

[PD] jack_transport from CVS

2008-08-11 Thread Si Mills
HI I was interested this weekend to tryout [jack_transport] from externals/tb/jack_transport in the cvs repository. As there as no binary for OSX, it decided to embark on compiling the source, so I downloaded XCode 2.5 and the jack_transport package with a cvs client. There doesn't

Re: [PD] looking for collections - patches

2008-11-07 Thread Si Mills
Ouch! I remember a fft-effects collection, tha i cant remember who made them, i think it was a southamerican composer studying in the netherlands any ideas ? was it fftease? http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~elyon/LyonSoftware/MaxMSP/FFTease/ I am about to buy ableton live, i remember

Re: [PD] looking for collections - patches

2008-11-07 Thread Si Mills
7, 2008, at 9:52 PM, Si Mills wrote: was it fftease? http://www.sarc.qub.ac.uk/~elyon/LyonSoftware/MaxMSP/FFTease/ FFTease doesn't run on an intelmac ('can't load library' error) - does anybody know about a recent version? Also, at least one of the authors is not studying any longer, his e

Re: [PD] nearest power of 2

2008-12-12 Thread Si Mills
Hardoff* has actually :-) Uses bonk~ and works bloody well. *is there a link for that somewhere? On 12 Dec 2008, at 00:25, Kyle Klipowicz wrote: This is neat. Please share your continued research in this territory. Also, has anyone made a beat slicer that chops up a sound file based on

[PD] Jack OS X/audio off - uses more cpu??

2008-12-16 Thread Si Mills
Hi Has anyone notice this: start Pd in Jack mode - cpu is ~0% turn on audio - cpu is still ~0% turn off audio - cpu jumps up to ~30% turn on audio - cpu falls back to ~0% what can this be? ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and

Re: [PD] Pd-Extended 0.40.3 + Jack OSX

2009-03-12 Thread Si Mills
Have you noticed when turning off audio that cpu jumps up in the Jack cpu meter? Switch back on reduces it... weird On 12 Mar 2009, at 09:35, Derek Holzer wrote: Situation improves when using latest Pd-Extended 0.41 nightly build + latest JackOSX package. D. Derek Holzer wrote: This

Re: [PD] max/ pd lexicon

2009-04-23 Thread Si Mills
For really good comprehensive documentation also there's: http://en.flossmanuals.net/puredata and http://www.pd-tutorial.com/ - which has useful sequencing tips cheers On 23 Apr 2009, at 08:41, hard off wrote: hi steve, welcome! frank forgot to mention his excellent spectral delay.

Re: [PD] Pd-extended 0.41.4-rc3 released!

2009-05-27 Thread Si Mills
Hi Hans Is the Jack OSX cpu issue likely to be fixed for this release? All in all its felling really tight this version! cheers On 27 May 2009, at 05:11, Matt Barber wrote: PS -- this Fedora hack almost works well for object and message boxes -- some of the mappings seem wrong (fiddling

Re: [PD] rewire for pd?

2009-05-27 Thread Si Mills
Funny you should say - here's an example of Jack transport being incorporated into a closed source product (Linux only?!) http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/05/26/renoise-21-now-with-mac-pc-rewire-plus-jack-on-linux-live-performance-tools/ On 23 May 2009, at 15:32, Mike Moser-Booth wrote:

Re: [PD] Fwd: PD t-shirts

2009-07-21 Thread Si Mills
this might help, in true diy Pd style! http://www.instructables.com/id/Screen-Printing%3a-Cheap%2c-Dirty%2c-and-At-Home/ cheers On 21 Jul 2009, at 10:03, harris_pil...@gmx.de wrote: just sent it to hc. sorry. Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: hi there, is anybody still into the tshirt

[PD] pdj, mxdublin and -schedlib on os x

2009-08-05 Thread Si Mills
Hi For those that don't know what mxdublin is, its a java gui tracker sequencer, check this out: http://www.le-son666.com/software/mxdublin/index.html - its looks pretty interesting. I'm having a few teething troubles getting pdj and mxdublin to work. I can get pdj to work the test

[PD] Array Enhancements

2009-09-10 Thread Si Mills
Hi Hans/DEv Tem I have a couple of ideas for the Array/Table object, mainly visual: Hide Array name - doesn't seem to be working. Would it be possible to limit the array vertically? This would make manually entering values for a sequencer more usable. Allow a step value for each slider, so

[PD] sc3~ for PD

2009-09-17 Thread Si Mills
Hello http://music.columbia.edu/~brad/sc3~/ - Just wondering, how hard would it be to port this to Pd? Is there any sort of external that allows you to write a text based synth directly inside PD? I imagine when clicking on the object would bring up a mini code editor. Sometimes the

[PD] smartphone advice

2009-10-29 Thread Si Mills
I know the subject of this post sounds like it would be more apt for Which? Mobile or something, but please bear with me.the reason for me posting here will become clear :) i will be getting a new smartphone soon, now I have a few choices: iphone Android Palm Windows Mobile I would

[PD] smartphone advice

2009-10-29 Thread Si Mills
I know the subject of this post sounds like it would be more apt for 'Which? Mobile' or something, but please bear with me.the reason for me posting here will become clear :) i will be getting a new smartphone soon, now I have a few choices: iphone Android Palm Windows Mobile I would

Re: [PD] smartphone advice

2009-11-03 Thread Si Mills
. for now: I am not sure about the palm, the android g1, g2 both do not run pd (yet...) and I think windows mobile neither, leaves the iphone. marius. 2009/10/29 Chris McCormick ch...@mccormick.cx: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 03:33:24PM +, Si Mills wrote: to Android as a platform, even though

Re: [PD] help : midi problrm with macbook

2009-11-03 Thread Si Mills
hi François have you a) got a midi interface plugged in? b) set up an IAC bus in the Audio/Midi setup? If you have neither of these then nothing will appear in the midi settings box in pd. cheers On 3 Nov 2009, at 09:22, François Bardet wrote: Hi all, I recently installed pd-extended

Re: [PD] GUI switching control scenes

2009-11-19 Thread Si Mills
This might be useful http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2006-04/037439.html bot abstractions use this technique. You could have a parent abstraction containing gop subpatches, and then overlay them. Switch on/off their visibility with 'vis' property messages On 19 Nov 2009, at

Re: [PD] pd using 25% cpu when opened

2010-01-20 Thread Si Mills
Hi, currently in Jack mode it does the reverse - Turn dsp off and the cpu rises! S On 20 Jan 2010, at 16:06, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Yup, try profiling it with Shark. Basically, its 25% CPU time of idle calls... if you use Jack, this goes down to a couple percent. Or try the

Re: [PD] GUI speed

2010-09-28 Thread Si Mills
Is this not what the 0.43 gui rewrite is about? (or have I misunderstood) On 28 Sep 2010, at 09:47, Lorenzo wrote: IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: On 2010-09-28 00:32, Bernardo Barros wrote: (well, poor performance *is* a bug) i suspect this is not meant seriously, but why post it? It looks like

[PD] Jack OSX latest beta and Pd jack midi

2011-02-04 Thread Si Mills
Hi, the latest beta for jack osx is pretty significant in that its essentially rewire for open source. I'm just testing it out however, and Pd, when running in jack mode, doesn't seem to report its midi ports to JackPilot. Is the support for jack midi already built in our does our need to be

Re: [PD] Jack OSX latest beta and Pd jack midi

2011-02-06 Thread Si Mills
the built-in IAC drivers in the AudioMIDI Setup. .mmb On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Si Mills smi...@rootsix.net wrote: Hi, the latest beta for jack osx is pretty significant in that its essentially rewire for open source. I'm just testing it out however, and Pd, when running in jack mode

[PD] OSX and pd-extended 0.43.1

2011-07-06 Thread Si Mills
Hi Hans Are the builds for os x functional at the moment? I've just downloaded the latest 0.43.1 and it tried to open; the post window flashes up and immediately it quits. Tested on 10.6.7 thanks ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and