Re: [PD] a few beginner's questions

2006-10-24 Thread robbert van hulzen
Thanks for your explanations, Mathieu! I can't seem to find .pdrc (i'm on mac osX 4.8). The org.puredata.plist opens in the property list editor, seems to be an .xml file. The startup flags from the startup preferences (as accessed from pd) show up labelled flags (class: string). Interestingly

Re: [PD] a few beginner's questions

2006-10-24 Thread robbert van hulzen
thanks mike--for now i'll just stick with the .xml, seems to be working and i don't have to figure out how to write a pref file. cheers, robbert On 10/24/06 12:48 PM, Mike McGonagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robbert, You won't be able to see a . (dot file, files whose names begin with a

[PD] counter trouble

2006-11-25 Thread robbert van hulzen
dear all, i'm working on a little metronome abstraction (thanks for the link with the description of the inversion process, frank barknecht! hadn't sat down to dissect the rrad.metro yet), and i'm running into some trouble with [counter]: a 'low' creation argument doesn't seem to be accepted more

Re: [PD] reverse variable speed soundplayback?

2006-11-25 Thread robbert van hulzen
a good start indeed... still working on it, trying to figure it out. thanks! On 11/22/06 5:58 AM, threen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe a good start??... http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2006-08/040624.html On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:52:21 +0100, robbert van hulzen [EMAIL

Re: [PD] re bug report on pd not finding files

2006-11-26 Thread robbert van hulzen
i understand that, and i'm nowhere near the end of the possibilities--or the knowledge thereof--of the osx distribution. i suppose the objects that don't load are a case of diff-distro. but a number of help files that live in subfolders in 5.ref do not load, even though they're there. a matter of

Re: [PD] counter trouble

2006-11-26 Thread robbert van hulzen
thanks a lot! i'd looked at those examples, actually, but wasn't aware that that solution would work better than the [counter]. it all works great now, and less kludgy, with less objects too. On 11/26/06 4:42 AM, hard off [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: check out

Re: [PD] counter trouble

2006-11-27 Thread robbert van hulzen
thanks a lot. i'd worked it out, but it's helpful to get this clear explanation / overview. and i didn't know the [mod] thing. Hallo, robbert van hulzen hat gesagt: // robbert van hulzen wrote: dear all, i'm working on a little metronome abstraction (thanks for the link

Re: [PD] reverse variable speed soundplayback?

2006-11-27 Thread robbert van hulzen
to use as an example too. thanks. robbert Hallo, robbert van hulzen hat gesagt: // robbert van hulzen wrote: a good start indeed... still working on it, trying to figure it out. thanks! If you're in a hurry: RTC-lib (update just announced) contains a simple sample player called play-samp~.pd

Re: [PD] reverse variable speed soundplayback?

2006-12-04 Thread robbert van hulzen
no worries, i'll be back...! ;) ok. small update. sorry for spamming and hijacking the thread robert van hulzen. ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] reverse variable speed soundplayback?

2006-12-18 Thread robbert van hulzen
oh i see, thanks frank hardoff! my thinking wasn't so good--and that with no hangover ;) it's all becoming clearer, thanks for your patience. On 12/17/06 12:21 PM, hard off [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: putting a [*~] after the [vline~] affects the volume, doesn't it? no. if you put a [*~ ]

Re: [PD] Graz DVD aka rel01

2007-01-12 Thread robbert van hulzen
This is embarrassing for me. I didn't test very well before posting that email: When i play it on my computer there indeed is sound (while plying it on the standalone dvd-player i have in reach there wasn't). I apologize very much! I'm watching it now (that is, i just paused it), it's

Re: [PD] Fwd: basic logic (AND OR) and control in PD

2007-01-23 Thread robbert van hulzen
we need teachers like you! ;) i've been wondering about this: is the f+1 counter solution less expensive than a tgl? or does the toggle only slow down screen redraws? cheers, robbert Roman Haefeli wrote: hi matthew again i attached a small patch, that shows how i would implement the most

Re: [PD] Fwd: basic logic (AND OR) and control in PD

2007-01-26 Thread robbert van hulzen
PM, Roman Haefeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello robbert On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 09:50 +0100, robbert van hulzen wrote: we need teachers like you! ;) i've been wondering about this: is the f+1 counter solution less expensive than a tgl? or does the toggle only slow down screen redraws

[PD] edit or play mode information

2007-01-28 Thread robbert van hulzen
dear all, i'm attempting to build an abs to control whether or not hitting a key has an effect: i'd like the space bar to do a number of things when in play mode but not in edit mode. i came up with the patch below, however, working on several open patches will screw it up as it works with a

[PD] edit or play mode information

2007-01-29 Thread robbert van hulzen
thanks. i don't think i fully understand your reply, but i'm also not sure whether this is what i need: i'm not looking for simpler and / or more flexible ways to control mode cursor movement. i'm looking for a way to make a keyboard action 'conditional': hitting the spacebar should have no

[PD] Re: PD-list Digest, Vol 22, Issue 109

2007-01-31 Thread robbert van hulzen
thanks very much for all the replies! and frank, thanks for the patch--i'm enjoying your help a lot. it's working now with steffen hc's [r pd-patchname.pd] | [route editmode] | [nbx] there's something i don't get though. i mapped capslock to [;pd-patch.pd editmode $1( (good idea there). now,

Re: [PD] Data structure loop selection

2007-02-05 Thread robbert van hulzen
a quick ps: afaik any patch has a name (with which you saved it) and a unique number: $0 (which you can use to avoid [s] [r] confusion in (multiple instances of) abstractions). to see it: [bng] | [$0] | [nbx] cheers, robbert Peter Plessas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Although even your main

Re: [PD] Re: PD-list Digest, Vol 22, Issue 109

2007-02-05 Thread robbert van hulzen
ahh, the famous execution order... thanks for that one. cheers, robbert Frank Barknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hallo, robbert van hulzen hat gesagt: // robbert van hulzen wrote: thanks very much for all the replies! and frank, thanks for the patch--i'm enjoying your help a lot. it's

Re: [PD] Live Apectrum Analyzer

2007-02-05 Thread robbert van hulzen
there's also praat: http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ (also accessable through http://www.praat.org) i have no experience with it myself, but from what i've heard (from musicologists) it's great. tapestrea looks amazing (from the demo video), not because of the visualisation (which i'm not too

[PD] basic remarks about Pd-extended for OS X

2007-02-09 Thread robbert van hulzen
Luigi Rensinghoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 1) If it looks right to me there are 3 ways to determine paths and libs on OSX and i am not quite sure if i am doing something wrong or if it just has not been considered. You can change the settings in the TCL-Interface of PD, but there are not

re: [PD] a little pitchshifter

2007-02-19 Thread robbert van hulzen
well then, thanks for doing my homework! ;) nice one. (i like how it gives a kind of flanger effect on the drum loop i tried it with, almost more like a filter, because of the high noise portion of the signal, i suppose.) cheers, robbert Thomas Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, after

Re: [PD] object box widths

2007-02-19 Thread robbert van hulzen
another thing you could use is '-': just add as many as you need to whatever creation args you have in the box already [ojb x ]. i suppose this is a dummy argument just like what derek suggested, but i find it easier to see that it doesn't do anything this way. robbert Item State [EMAIL

Re: [PD] minor but persistent annoyances

2007-02-26 Thread robbert van hulzen
this came up not so long ago: just change the canvas sizes in a text editor. cheers, robbert Chuckk Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason it was a huge problem on Mac was that, once the window is larger than your display, there's no way to get to the resize button on the lower right

Re: [PD] PD-list Digest, Vol 23, Issue 157

2007-02-26 Thread robbert van hulzen
didn't mean to offend. i'm not saying it's not a bug, but it hasn't bothered me too much (my patches don't have that many windows). robbert Chuckk Hubbard [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: You lost me at just. That you can fix it by opening a patch in a text editor, finding and adjusting all the

Re: [PD] a little pitchshifter

2007-03-01 Thread robbert van hulzen
there's also G09.pitchshift.pd, which i've not looked at beyond simply triggering it. not fft but two playheads. drumloop timing is a bit messy and it looks different in construction than your patch (though i don't know what happens inside [susloop~]). i'm looking forward to getting on with

[PD] pd ext - 0.40

2007-03-08 Thread robbert van hulzen
hello berliner listers, is there anyone here that would like to help me set up pd 0.40 with externals, i'm cvs challenged and generally kind of lost as to where to start. reading lots of documentation but it kind of feels like i'm walking around the mountain not knowing where to start climbing.

[PD] machine-o-matic (was: kit model)

2007-03-08 Thread robbert van hulzen
and yet another great one...! this is fun, i can sit here for hours and annoy my fellow berliner coffeedrinkers with leakage from my headphones ... padawan12 wrote: And there's a few new sound effects generators here too http://www.obiwannabe.co.uk/html/news/news.html The machine-o-matic

Re: [PD] puredatabase

2007-03-08 Thread robbert van hulzen
No, I didn't forget... But the discussion (eg Pluggo4PD) is getting to a point where I think wow, interesting! rather than I can help here. Here's a few thoughts anyway. More to show what goes on in the mind of someone who's just getting into the construction of the telescope after a bit of star

Re: [PD] in Pd-0.39.2-extended-test7 msg 'reset' and 'clear' doesn?t work as before

2007-03-15 Thread robbert van hulzen
hmmm, actually it doesn't seem to be that simple, see fb's earlier reply as well as this msg posted on the dev list on 14 march. looks like i spoke before my turn. robbert subject: [PD-dev] [ pure-data-Bugs-1576865 ] namespace prefixes broken ... It is no longer possible to use

Re: [PD] Sigmund and Sort (Was Real-time frequency filtering and analysis)

2007-04-02 Thread robbert van hulzen
alternatively, if you don't want to compile yourself: the 0.40.2 autobuilds on puredate.info have recent versions (i assume you want = 0.40.2 because of [sigmund~]). On 4/2/07 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for 0.40.2, where would I get that? From

Re: [PD] Sigmund and Sort (Was Real-time frequency filtering and analysis)

2007-04-03 Thread robbert van hulzen
hmmm... maybe i did... what would good old sigmund f himself have to say about this little slip? On 4/2/07 9:50 PM, David Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/2/07, robbert van hulzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alternatively, if you don't want to compile yourself: the 0.40.2 autobuilds

[PD] Pd-0.39.2-extended-test7-windowsxp missing objects

2007-04-03 Thread robbert van hulzen
i suppose [moog~] is in ggee there too? with my latest ext download (autobuild 0.40.2, 18 march) i had the same with [moog~] and other ggee objects. adding the path to the prefs file (i did in an xml editor) solved it. for me, in 0.40.2 from miller's site, with the externals and an edited prefs

[PD] Mediamatic workshop

2007-04-04 Thread robbert van hulzen
this is fantastic, thanks! i'm trying to understand a bit about synthesis, and these examples/tutorials help a lot. and they sound great, too. i'm going to be busy for a while going through your derek's material, very helpful while trying to build my own sounds. (one thing: in the section on

Re: [PD] Mediamatic workshop

2007-04-05 Thread robbert van hulzen
please keep us informed, any idea when it would be yet? On 4/5/07 6:39 AM, padawan12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a possible April workshop in Bristol with a slant on music production, so that will be about sequencers, synths, more about MIDI and OSC.

Re: [PD] frequency graphing in gem

2007-04-09 Thread robbert van hulzen
[spigot~] in yves' own words: a signal router : version 0.1, written by Yves Degoyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) it sends the signal out of the left output if creation arg / left input = 0 and out of the right output if 1. so it could be used like [spigot] for audio if you use the right outlet, or as an

Re: [PD] frequency graphing in gem

2007-04-09 Thread robbert van hulzen
run your patch, maybe you could make a screenshot? Thanks, David On 4/9/07, robbert van hulzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [spigot~] in yves' own words: a signal router : version 0.1, written by Yves Degoyon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) it sends the signal out of the left output if creation arg

Re: [PD] Flute synthesis

2007-04-28 Thread robbert van hulzen
this is exciting...! re midi: for the little synths i've been building (for which, incidentally, your 'six simple synths' provided very useful info) i made midi switchable. if i want to i can use midi(notes) to generate pitches but by default it just takes frequency--to get to those interesting

Re: [PD] basic composition tutorial

2007-05-24 Thread robbert van hulzen
nice one! this helps, thanks a lot, also steffen for the pdf. cheers, robbert Andy Farnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Any feedback on a new document would be nice. I've tried to provide an absolutely minimal elementary intro to making music with Pd. This is the first doc, which I did as

Re: [PD] loading wav.samples with readsf

2007-06-03 Thread robbert van hulzen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i`ve been trying to play wav.samples using the readsf-object but don`t have no luck error: readsf: start requested with no prior 'open' ... you might be able to track this down from the Find menu. maybe its due to my message-box open!? you'll have to specify the

[PD] default value for an abstraction's creation argument

2007-07-22 Thread robbert van hulzen
dear all, i'm wondering how to get a default value for an abstraction argument that is not specified. eg: my abstraction [equality] can take 3 arguments, but i don't want to *have* to type the arguments, in which case the abs should use a default value. i came up with the following solution:

Re: [PD] default value for an abstraction's creation argument

2007-07-22 Thread robbert van hulzen
, it is well worth it. Tom On 7/22/07, robbert van hulzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear all, i'm wondering how to get a default value for an abstraction argument that is not specified. eg: my abstraction [equality] can take 3 arguments, but i don't want to *have

Re: [PD] default value for an abstraction's creation argument

2007-07-23 Thread robbert van hulzen
nice. thanks for that one. Frank Barknecht wrote: Arguments, that you don't specify, get initialized as 0. So instead of [moses 1] you could also use [select 0] and omit the [t b]. ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and

Re: [PD] using fiddle~ ?

2007-10-07 Thread robbert van hulzen
hmmm proper frequencies, eh? after all this talk of undoing the midi revolution, would'nt it be about time to undo the equal tempered revolution? ;) but really, fb's answer made me wonder to what extent [mtof] rounds its incoming numbers. according to the helpfile, you can specify microtonal

Re: [PD] translations for pdpedia templates Nederlands

2007-10-14 Thread robbert van hulzen
if i may quickly mix in with this: 'status' works in dutch too. cheers, robbert hc wrote: It seems that the talk on this one has died down. There is one word which I forgot to include, status, like this: http:// wiki.puredata.info/en/Status Other than that, is this one ready to go?

[PD] [bang]--clickable but bypass when indirect

2007-10-31 Thread robbert van hulzen
hi there dear list people, a little while ago, andy mentioned a construction for bypassing gui objects (numberboxes, in that case) while at the same time using the info you may put in them with the mouse. i can't find the post anymore, but i think that's exactly what i need now. i'm making an

[PD] [declare] trouble

2007-11-06 Thread robbert van hulzen
hi all hc, just downloaded last night's autobuild--looks very nice! i understand the wish for flexible colours etc, but hc, thanks a lot for the work! there is something however that i don't understand: why is it that pd-ext doesn't load all the libs it comes with? the .plist it comes with

Re: [PD] [declare] trouble

2007-11-08 Thread robbert van hulzen
can i ask a silly question? what's the difference between -path and -stdpath? -path just uses that path once? in any case, i didn't get that to work either--and from previous posts, it seems other people did. or not on osx? however, i sorted things out with the prefs file, so i guess i won't need

Re: [PD] preferences (was: [declare] trouble)

2007-11-08 Thread robbert van hulzen
Steffen Juul wrote: To quote Hans [1]: ... This one comes with Pd-extended and sets the default preferences. If someone creates, ~/Library/Preferences/org.puredata.pd.list, this one will be ignored. h... i guess i didn't rtfm... don't remember exactly what i did, but deleting the

[PD] connection?

2007-11-08 Thread robbert van hulzen
hi all, hc, i like the new look of pd-ext, but i just came across something that could be a problem: the most recently created object now covers everything created before (visually, i mean). while in canvases and gui objects this is of course really useful, in objects i think it's dangerous as you

Re: [PD] Growing patch-window size (Was:Re: changing the look of Pd to be more readable)

2007-11-11 Thread robbert van hulzen
simon wise wrote: Playing around and testing it seems something (possibly in the new visuals) is slowwwing down displaying/opening patches i've noticed the same. cheers, robbert -- pd-0.40.3-extended-20071106 mac osx 10.4.8, 15 G4 PB 1.67 GHz, 1 GB ram

Re: [PD] Midi noteout: changing the instrument

2007-11-11 Thread robbert van hulzen
this came at exactly the right moment! thanks. :) robbert frank barknecht wrote: [makenote] numberbox for channel number | / / [pack 0 0 1] | [noteout] ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

[PD] console at startup

2007-11-12 Thread robbert van hulzen
hi all hc in particular, is there / would it be possible to include a startup flag to show the console window immediately? it's nice to have the option to switch it off, but i use it all the time and would like the possibility to just have it open from the beginning. cheers, robbert --

Re: [PD] console at startup

2007-11-13 Thread robbert van hulzen
, at 21.13, robbert van hulzen wrote: is there / would it be possible to include a startup flag to show the console window immediately? There is a variable for it in pd.tk (you use). It's ca. line 212. Change that to 1 - such that it reads 'set show_text_window 1'. But just changing it doesn't

[PD] pd-ext: help files not found

2007-11-23 Thread robbert van hulzen
patrick wrote: and finally, not just the help of [coll] is not working with a right-click, all of them! i have the same problem. i filed a bug report a little while ago, which seems to be the thing to do in cases like this. with my limited understanding, i'm thinking it's to do with the

Re: [PD] tabread4~~

2007-12-03 Thread robbert van hulzen
to my relief, there was something in this thread that i understood :) and they're fun too, the little buzzers. thanks for sharing. cheers, robbert Charles Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I started using pd, I tried to make some complex tones, where I could shift the partials around while

Re: [PD] VOSIM with a tiny bug

2007-12-11 Thread robbert van hulzen
³An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.² Edgard Varèse .andre wrote: is this just me, or why are Andys emails always in the future ? ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -