[PD] Meaning of "cosinesum" and "sinesum" arguments

2009-07-19 Thread David F. Place
Hi, all. I've been trying to find a definition of the cosinesum and sinesum messages for arrays. Obviously, the first argument is the size of the array. The list of numbers that follow obviously relate to the harmonic partials in some way, but I'm not sure exactly how. Would someone please poi

Re: [PD] Pd suddenly crashing

2009-04-06 Thread David F. Place
Amazingly, it just started working again. I think a likely explanation is that my soundcard got into a bizarre state and needed to be power cycled. Thanks for your help and sorry for the bother. On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 11:33 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > David F. Place wrote: > &

[PD] Pd suddenly crashing

2009-04-05 Thread David F. Place
Hello: I have been using Pd quite happily under linux. Suddenly it will not start at all. This is the error message I get: > [da...@congo pd]$ pd > pd: interval_inline.h:52: snd_interval_single: Assertion > `!snd_interval_empty(i)' failed. > Pd: signal 6 > [da...@congo pd]$ pd_gui: pd process

[PD] Switching from Vanilla to Extended

2009-01-09 Thread David F. Place
Hi, All. Sorry if this is a FAQ. Normally I use vanilla pd. When I load my patches in Pd-extended, there are different fonts and the alignment of objects is spoiled. Is there a way to use Pd-extended and have my patches look they way they do in Pd-vanilla? Cheers, David __

Re: [PD] Debugging Sound II: Experimenting with Foldover

2008-11-26 Thread David F. Place
ght! > D. > > David F. Place wrote: > > Hi, All. > > > > Playing with C01.nyquist.pd in the documentation, it occurred to me that > > I can satisfy myself experimentally that I have overcome my foldover > > problems just by implementing a sweep of the f

[PD] Debugging Sound II: Experimenting with Foldover

2008-11-26 Thread David F. Place
Hi, All. Playing with C01.nyquist.pd in the documentation, it occurred to me that I can satisfy myself experimentally that I have overcome my foldover problems just by implementing a sweep of the fundamental frequency and listening for swoops of folded over partials heading in the opposite directi

Re: [PD] Understanding Oversampling

2008-11-11 Thread David F. Place
, too :) >>> >>> The filters are incorrectly set to 7500 Hz. >> >> Instead, we would want them set to 15kHz as the comment says? >> > well, I tried it both ways, and I think it's a tradeoff. I updated > the > patch (grab a new one from http://crca.ucsd.e

Re: [PD] Understanding Oversampling

2008-11-11 Thread David F. Place
tly say that I would like to devote myself to learning it, but truthfully I just want a cookbook for creating a low pass filter to do the application of oversampling. > > To change the value of 7500 or 16, adjust beta accordingly and repeat. > > cheers > Miller _

[PD] Understanding Oversampling

2008-11-11 Thread David F. Place
Hello: I'm trying to understand J07.oversampling.pd. Is the structure of the 3-pole, 3-zero Butterworth low-pass filter specific to the 16x upsampling? Should it be different for 32x upsampling? Cheers, David ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBS

Re: [PD] Some examples of my work with Pd

2008-11-07 Thread David F. Place
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 23:34 -0600, Mike McGonagle wrote: > David, this is interesting. Do you have any plans to share these > patches? I would be interested in seeing how you handled the Just > Intonation stuff. My Pd patches implement a sequencer where pitch is controlled by a triple of (octave,

[PD] Some examples of my work with Pd

2008-11-06 Thread David F. Place
Hi, all. I uploaded some examples of my work with Pd to puredata.info. They are renaissance motets that I've synthesized in Just Intonation. Hope you enjoy. Let me know what you think. Cheers, David http://puredata.info/community/tracks ___ Pd-lis

Re: [PD] block~ vs. freeverb~

2008-10-20 Thread David F. Place
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 20:52 +0200, Derek Holzer wrote: > My guess is that [freeverb~] calculates the decay time in > samples somehow, thus the very short reverb times at very fast > sampling > rates. Alternately, move [freeverb~] out of the upsampled subptach, > it's > probably eating tons of CP

Re: [PD] block~ vs. freeverb~

2008-10-20 Thread David F. Place
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 20:08 +0200, Derek Holzer wrote: > Multiply the decay time by the same factor that you are upsampling? There isn't a parameter that corresponds directly to decay time? Fooling with the parameters doesn't make much difference. ___

[PD] block~ vs. freeverb~

2008-10-20 Thread David F. Place
Hi, Now that I have upsampling working, I hear that the output of freeverb~ is completely different when it is computed in an upsampled environment. There's hardly any reverb effect at all. Any ideas? Cheers, David ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UN

Re: [PD] Scope of [block~] and [switch~]

2008-10-20 Thread David F. Place
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 15:50 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > the warning is misleading though: Pd simply refuses to > [throw~]/[catch~] > or [s~]/[r~] with anything other than the standard 64-sample, > no-overlap, no-resampling signal. > I see. I changed all of my throws and catches to direc

Re: [PD] Scope of [block~] and [switch~]

2008-10-20 Thread David F. Place
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 15:29 +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > yes, all subpatches share the same signal-properties with regard to > the > super-patch (unless further overriden of course). > So, I added [block~ 4096 1 16] to my next to top level abstraction and now I get the following errors:

Re: [PD] Scope of [block~] and [switch~]

2008-10-20 Thread David F. Place
Thanks again, Derek. I couldn't find any documentation for samplerate~, but I guessed that the output would be a number and that I should probably bang the input to get it. It shows that the up-sampled rate from block is passed down to abstractions. On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 14:57 +0200, Derek Hol

[PD] Scope of [block~] and [switch~]

2008-10-20 Thread David F. Place
Hi, I am trying to understand oversampling to eliminate foldover from my patches. In the help file for block~ we read: The block~ and switch~ objects set the block size, overlap, and up/down-sampling ratio for the window. (The overlap and resampling ratio are relative to

Re: [PD] Debugging sound

2008-10-18 Thread David F. Place
Thanks, Derek. You hit the nail on the head. The patch in the example you cite perfectly demonstrates the sound I am hearing. Now, I must work to understand it to apply it to my case. I must get a copy of Miller's book! On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 00:13 +0200, Derek Holzer wrote: > Check > 3.audio.

[PD] Debugging sound

2008-10-18 Thread David F. Place
Hi, So, I've created some complex Pd patches that do what I want very nicely. I decided to write some of my creations to CD. Listening to the selections on my good CD player with excellent headphones, I heard some acoustical artifacts that I hadn't noticed when I was working in front of my compu

[PD] Bizzare problem with freeverb~

2008-09-26 Thread David F. Place
Hi: I would like to do some batch processing into ".wav" files. This should be easily accomplished by running pd with -noaudio and -nogui. It almost works. I run my signal through [freeverb~] just before output. If I run the patch with -nogui, freeverb~ is bypassed and the sound is dry. In eve

[PD] ALSA + Edirol UA-25 not working under Fedora 9

2008-08-01 Thread David F. Place
Hi: Foolishly, I upgraded my perfectly configured workstation from Fedora 5 to Fedora 9. Since then I've been struggling to regain my position. I was happily using my Edirol UA-25 under ALSA with Pd, but now that doesn't work. It gives a perplexing error message. Perhaps someone has seen it. T

Re: [PD] ALSA + Edirol UA-25 not working under Fedora 9

2008-08-01 Thread David F. Place
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 09:39 -0400, David F. Place wrote: > Hi: > > Foolishly, I upgraded my perfectly configured workstation from Fedora 5 > to Fedora 9. Since then I've been struggling to regain my position. > > I was happily using my Edirol UA-25 under ALSA with Pd,

Re: [PD] Improved bug report: [expr] on Windows 2000 (XP non-professional)

2008-03-02 Thread David F. Place
On Mar 2, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Patrice Colet wrote: > Hello, did you check if the expr.dll is present in extra folder? expr.dll is not present in the extra folder. In fact, there are no .dll files in the extra folder. > ___ (---o---o-o-o---o-o-o( David F.

[PD] Pd-0.41-2.msw.exe is missing [expr]

2008-03-01 Thread David F. Place
: If you install Pd-0.41-2.msw.exe on a fresh computer, it does not work. It's missing [expr]. ___ (---o---o-o-o---o-o-o----( David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and ac

[PD] Improved bug report: [expr] on Windows 2000 (XP non-professional)

2008-03-01 Thread David F. Place
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[PD] Expr on Windows XP

2008-02-29 Thread David F. Place
to be present. Even exponential.pd in the Audio Examples doesn't work. I am using Pd version 0.41-2. Thanks in advance. Cheers, David ___ (---o---o-o-o---o-o-o----( David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PD-l

[PD] [key] vs symbolatom [Was: Re: Letter -> Number]

2008-02-13 Thread David F. Place
e not sent to [key] when a symbolatom is selected for input. Does anyone agree? ___ (---o---o-o-o---o-o-o( David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account

Re: [PD] Letter -> Number

2008-02-13 Thread David F. Place
to port. Select will certainly work. I have to translate 50 letters ('I' is never used as a rehearsal letter), so it is quite an ugly patch. > > David F. Place wrote: >> Dear Pd Friends: >> I need to create a mapping from letters into numbers: >> (A->1,a->

[PD] Letter -> Number

2008-02-12 Thread David F. Place
pot. I can think of very unattractive ways to do this in Pd using select. Is there an elegant way? Best Wishes, David ___ (---o---o-o-o---o-o-o----( David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list

Re: [PD] writesf~ question

2007-08-11 Thread David F. Place
that could happen ( in a series of bang/stop > messages) is a redundant stop message, which I assume does nothing. > Thanks. I was easily able to create a patch that confirms that behavior. ___ (---o-------o-o-o---o-o-o( David F

Re: [PD] writesf~ question

2007-08-11 Thread David F. Place
d have your feature > request fulfilled. Thanks. That's what I'll do. Also, the control to "stop" the recording must also send a stop to cancel the delay. Failing to do so could lead to some very hard to debug behavior. __

Re: [PD] writesf~ question

2007-08-10 Thread David F. Place
On Aug 10, 2007, at 9:39 PM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, David F. Place wrote: > >> A feature request, then. writesf~ should take a message to set a >> maximum size avoiding an operating system panic. ...or just print >> the message "Li

Re: [PD] writesf~ question

2007-08-10 Thread David F. Place
..or just print the message "Linux hates itself." :-) ___ (---o---o-o-o---o-o-o( David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

[PD] writesf~ question

2007-08-09 Thread David F. Place
to quit if a file exceeds a maximum size? Thanks. Cheers, David ___ (---o---o-o-o---o-o-o( David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> h

[PD] Midi controller for use with Pd

2007-06-08 Thread David F. Place
work, but they seem like overkill with all their pre-programmed effects and sounds. Has anyone any experience using a simple device like a trigger pad for a midi drum kit? Maybe something like the Roland PD-8? Cheers, David ___ (---o---o-o-o---o-o-o( David F. Place

Re: [PD] USB Sound "card"

2007-05-04 Thread David F. Place
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Re: [PD] USB Sound "card"

2007-05-04 Thread David F. Place
s, but otherwise is good and > inexpensive. I use one on my laptop.) ___ (---o---o-o-o---o-o-o----( David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management

[PD] USB Sound "card"

2007-05-04 Thread David F. Place
on OSX. I mention it to give an idea of the quality level that I desire. Cheers, David ___ (---o---o-o-o---o-o-o----( David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-managemen

Re: [PD] Stupid Symbol Processing

2007-03-20 Thread David F. Place
Of course, [select] is the right answer. "symbol pd" sure looks like a list of "symbol" followed by "pd" though. On Mar 20, 2007, at 9:46 AM, David F. Place wrote: > [symbol pd-experts(, > > If I try to process (compu

[PD] Stupid Symbol Processing

2007-03-20 Thread David F. Place
o get rid of it. Sorry in advance for the stupid question. Baffled, David ___ (---o---o-o-o---o-o-o( David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://l

Re: [PD] Local Tables

2007-03-06 Thread David F . Place
On Mar 6, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Claude Heiland-Allen wrote: > "message to table" > | > [s $0-foo] Perfect! Thanks. --o---o-o-o---o-o-o--- David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and

[PD] Local Tables

2007-03-06 Thread David F. Place
[table 100] which seems more in the style of everything else. Cheers, David --o---o-o-o---o-o-o--- David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

[PD] Thanks for you patience.

2007-03-06 Thread David F. Place
I figured out how to do what I want with [until]. Sorry for being so dense. I have a strong leaning toward recursive solutions as I have been programming exclusively in Haskell for years. #N canvas 243 71 993 768 10; #X obj 15 13 zexy; #X obj 366 135 until; #X msg 201 110 print; #X msg 287 53

[PD] [msgfile] previous bug abstraction too simple.

2007-03-06 Thread David F. Place
Hi and thanks for your help so far. In my previous message my abstraction was too simple. I can't use [Until] after all. You can see by the attached patch the behavior that I want using [textfile]. I want to output records until I find a wait, wait a bit, then continue. This works fine w

Re: [PD] [msgfile] and [textfile] problems.

2007-03-06 Thread David F. Place
t; [until] > | > [msgfile] > | \ > [print] [send bang to right inlet of until when finished] > > marius. > > > David F. Place wrote: >> Recently, I sent a message complaining about the behavior of >> [textfile].I learned about [msgfile] in the zexy li

Re: [PD] [msgfile] and [textfile] problems.

2007-03-06 Thread David F. Place
Whoops. Here are the versions: Pd 0.41 zexy 2.1 Fedore core 4 64-bits David F. Place wrote: > Recently, I sent a message complaining about the behavior of > [textfile].I learned about [msgfile] in the zexy library and > thought it would solve my problems, but i

[PD] [msgfile] and [textfile] problems.

2007-03-06 Thread David F. Place
Recently, I sent a message complaining about the behavior of [textfile].I learned about [msgfile] in the zexy library and thought it would solve my problems, but it has not. I have distilled my complaints in the attached patch. 1.) [textfile] blows the stack on too low a number. The st

Re: [PD] Can't compile zexy [was: Re: [textfile] behavior]

2007-03-05 Thread David F. Place
On Mar 5, 2007, at 3:03 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > where did you get zexy from? from CVS? > or is it a source release from pd.iem.at ? I got it from ftp://iem.at/pd/externals/ZEXY --o---o-o-o---o-o-o--- David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: [PD] [textfile] behavior

2007-03-04 Thread David F. Place
a table translating marks to lines.) Thanks for your help. --o---o-o-o---o-o-o--- David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] [textfile] behavior

2007-03-04 Thread David F. Place
extfile], that when the message, you are looking for, is coming out > [textfile], you could stop [until], and you have the 'cue' at the > desired position. > > hope that helps... > > roman > > On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 20:50 -0500, David F. Place wrote: >> Pd: >

Re: [PD] Can't compile zexy [was: Re: [textfile] behavior]

2007-03-04 Thread David F. Place
Thanks for the tip. It works now. On Mar 4, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Georg Holzmann wrote: > David F. Place schrieb: >> Thanks for the tip. I tried to compile the zexy library, but got >> an error. >> gcc -export_dynamic -shared -o zexy.pd_linux *.o -lm -lc >> /us

[PD] Can't compile zexy [was: Re: [textfile] behavior]

2007-03-04 Thread David F . Place
r 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] src]$ Fedora Core 4/ 64 bits Pd 0.41 On Mar 4, 2007, at 5:43 AM, hard off wrote: not checked your patch, sorry...but i guess you need [msgfile] from the zexy library. --o---o-o-o---o-o-o--- David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __

[PD] [textfile] behavior

2007-03-03 Thread David F. Place
Pd: I am writing a sequencer using Pd and have bumped into the following problem. I would like to be able to position the textfile object to start playback from a certain record. The approach I have taken works for small files, but breaks down for large files. I've abstracted the behavior

Re: [PD] System Versions for previous message.

2007-02-21 Thread David F. Place
Thanks for your help. --o-------o-o-o---o-o-o--- David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] System Versions for previous message.

2007-02-21 Thread David F. Place
I didn't give this level of detail right off the bat. --o---o-o-o---o-o-o--- David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] System Versions for previous message.

2007-02-21 Thread David F. Place
On Feb 21, 2007, at 2:19 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > > are you by chance running a 64bit OS? (i guess FC3 does not support > x86_64 but who knows...) > Yes, I am running a 64bit OS. I'll try upgrading to 0.41 too. --o---o-o-o---o-o-o--- David F. Place mailto

Re: [PD] System Versions for previous message.

2007-02-21 Thread David F. Place
call which takes so long to compute that it > frequently > messes up the audio. > > cheers > Miller > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:05:15AM -0500, David F. Place wrote: >> Since my last message morphed from a plea for help to a bug report, I >> guess I should give t

[PD] System Versions for previous message.

2007-02-21 Thread David F. Place
Since my last message morphed from a plea for help to a bug report, I guess I should give the relevant info. Mac OS X 10.4.8 / Pd 0.39-2 Fedora 4 / Pd 0.39-2 --o---o-o-o---o-o-o--- David F. Place mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PD-list@iem.at

[PD] Difference in behavior between OS X and Linux (Linux is Broken)

2007-02-21 Thread David F. Place
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Re: [PD] Noop message.

2007-02-18 Thread David F. Place
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[PD] Noop message.

2007-02-17 Thread David F. Place
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[PD] Mutiple instances of a patch at startup.

2006-12-11 Thread David F. Place
frequency #0-freq -; #X obj 216 104 *; #X floatatom 281 83 0 0.25 2 0 - - -; #X obj -19 222 cnv 15 333 625 empty empty empty 20 12 0 14 -261689 -66577 0; #X obj -4 226 noteSelector D-natural 1 1 \$0; #X text -15 826 Copyright 2006 David F. Place; #X symbolatom -6 150 0 0 0 2 Note #0-note -; #X sym

[PD] newbie: Feedback and questions

2006-11-30 Thread David F. Place
Hello PD Virtuosi: Imagine my delight when I first enrolled in the PD list a few days ago to find that you've all resolved to give up grumpiness so as not to put off newbies like me! It gave me courage to put forward my first effort for criticism and feedback. The patch implements a tone ge