Re: [PD] confused about $1 in messages

2014-01-20 Thread Spencer Russell
Thanks Jonathan for the detailed response and pointer to the docs. As a longtime (but somewhat sporadic) PD user this list behavior still becomes a bit fuzzy to me sometimes, and this helps make it much more clear. -s On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote:

Re: [PD] Pd on Android

2011-08-29 Thread Spencer Russell
Seconding the dissatisfaction with real-time audio support on Android in general. I've only recently jumped on the android train (Samsung Droid Charge) and I've noticed that the only audio apps that are usable are of the sequencing / drum machine variety, because they don't depend so much on

Re: [PD] algorithms for drawing filter response curves

2011-02-17 Thread Spencer Russell
Very cool. Works for me, now. Strangely within the help patch my cursor is always the arrow, and doesn't change to the hand when I'm in Edit Mode, and doesn't highlight when the cursor is over inlets/outlets. -spencer On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at wrote:

Re: [PD] algorithms for drawing filter response curves

2011-02-16 Thread Spencer Russell
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at wrote: Ok, I got it working in a limited way as a Pd object and I was controlling my first filter against noise!  Good fun. You can still run the .tcl file as a standalone GUI for dev work.  Get it from my git:

Re: [PD] algorithms for drawing filter response curves

2011-02-07 Thread Spencer Russell
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca wrote: On Sun, 6 Feb 2011, Spencer Russell wrote: [1] gives the magnitude frequency response given the biquad coefficents, and it linked to from several places around the net. Is this the sort of thing you're looking

Re: [PD] algorithms for drawing filter response curves

2011-02-06 Thread Spencer Russell
[1] gives the magnitude frequency response given the biquad coefficents, and it linked to from several places around the net. Is this the sort of thing you're looking for? [1] http://bit.ly/eFck4j -s On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at wrote: I've started to

Re: [PD] call for testers for L2Ork iteration of pd-extended (based on 0.42.x branch)

2010-11-21 Thread Spencer Russell
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Ivica Ico Bukvic i...@vt.edu wrote: The source tarball also includes prebuilt binaries, so assuming you have an intel machine with Ubuntu 9.10, it should just run. (cd pd/bin/ followed by ./pd). Otherwise, you may have to rebuild it (standard pd-extended

[PD] .deb for AMD64 Maverick

2010-11-14 Thread Spencer Russell
I just upgraded to Ubuntu Maverick 64-bit, and the first thing I did was grab pd-extended 0.42.5 and build a deb, because there currently isn't one on the download page. What's the protocol for submitting the deb? I haven't really tested it much yet, but so far so good. Thanks, Spencer

Re: [PD] .deb for AMD64 Maverick

2010-11-14 Thread Spencer Russell
The package can be found at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/106774/Pd-0.42.5-extended-ubuntu-maverick-amd64.deb Test away! 2010/11/14 András Murányi muran...@gmail.com: ...and let me throw in the recruitment bit - once you feel up to it, you can set up your machine to autobuildupload it on a daily

Re: [PD] Pd Shirts

2010-06-03 Thread Spencer Russell
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@at.or.at wrote: Nice work Max!  I want to order some to the USA whenever the customs stuff is figured out. I'll definitely be in on the bulk USA order. I'd be interested in a Medium Black one. -spencer

Re: [PD] ChucK vs. Pd

2010-05-31 Thread Spencer Russell
PD's blocking behaviour is also configurable with the [block~] object, so you can set the blocksize to a single sample if you like. I think I remember reading that ChucK can operate with variable-sized blocks as well, but I could be wrong. -spencer On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Ivica Ico

Re: [PD] Guitar Pitch tracking in pd

2010-05-18 Thread Spencer Russell
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Pagano, Patrick p...@digitalworlds.ufl.edu wrote: Hi I have a project proposal that wants to track pitches from a guitar [non-midi] and then translate them into tablature that is readable by players. I was looking at fiddle and wondering perhaps if

[PD] [PD-announce] gendy~ PD + Max/MSP object and libgendy 0.6.0 released

2010-05-17 Thread Spencer Russell
Hi Pd-ers, I've been working off and on for a bit on a C++ library to implement a variant of Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis, a technique developed by Iannis Xenakis. For a great history and more details of the original algorithm check out Sergio Luque's thesis [1]. The library is still pretty

[PD] [PD-announce] gendy~ PD + Max/MSP object and libgendy 0.6.0 released

2010-05-17 Thread Spencer Russell
Hi Pd-ers, I've been working off and on for a bit on a C++ library to implement a variant of Dynamic Stochastic Synthesis, a technique developed by Iannis Xenakis. (For a great history and more details check out Sergio Luque's thesis [1]. The library is still pretty rough around the edges and

Re: [PD] Zen Garden re-implementing the wheel in C++?

2010-04-17 Thread Spencer Russell
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Tim Blechmann t...@klingt.org wrote: unfortunately, this is not a trivial issue. dynamically changing the signal graph is possible (actually, i had an implementation of that in nova). do the topological sorting in the background and you are fine. the tricky

Re: [PD] Zen Garden re-implementing the wheel in C++?

2010-04-17 Thread Spencer Russell
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca wrote: On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Spencer Russell wrote: I'm excited about the idea of a more object-oriented approach, Pd's implementation was made with an object-oriented approach. You can't get much more object-oriented than

[PD] Zen Garden re-implementing the wheel in C++?

2010-04-16 Thread Spencer Russell
Hey List. Just came across Zen Garden: http://wiki.github.com/mhroth/ZenGarden/ Seems like the RJDJ crew is re-implementing PD in C++, in it's full object-oriented glory. I'm excited about the idea of a more object-oriented approach, and especially with the idea of ditching all the Tk/Tcl

Re: [PD] Zen Garden re-implementing the wheel in C++?

2010-04-16 Thread Spencer Russell
...@gmail.comgt; wrote: i think by calling Tcl a garbage you are certainly provoking a flame war. On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 02:46:44PM -0400, Spencer Russell wrote: gt; Hey List. gt; gt; Just came across Zen Garden: gt; gt; http://wiki.github.com/mhroth/ZenGarden/ gt; gt; Seems like

Re: [PD] Free samples somewhere on the net?

2010-04-15 Thread Spencer Russell
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Pierre Massat pimas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone! I just got a brand new midi keyboard and i'm very excited! Anyway, i was wondering if anybody knows where i could find some good quality samples of electric keyboards (like the Rhodes), for free (yes, i m

Re: [PD] Last days of submissions to ICMC's UnConference

2010-04-15 Thread Spencer Russell
Count me in. I probably won't be at ICMC though. Will that be required? -s On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Alexandre Porres por...@gmail.com wrote: It turns out that NYC Resistor, of which I am a member, is hosting some ICMC workshops.  I'd happily host some kind of informal Pd gathering

Re: [PD] making hardware

2010-03-05 Thread Spencer Russell
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:54 AM, Chris McCormick ch...@mccormick.cx wrote: Hi, You might be interested in Martin Roth's ZenGarden: https://github.com/mhroth/ZenGarden/ Not even close to fully functional, but it's moving fast and can run some Pd patches already on Android (ARM), and desktop

Re: [PD] Spectrogram patch?

2010-01-26 Thread Spencer Russell
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Spencer Russell spencer.f.russ...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone made a nice real-time spectrogram[1] patch? The spectrogram.pd patch that comes with gridflow is pretty close to what I'm looking for, except that it doesn't display any past data, but I figured

[PD] Spectrogram patch?

2010-01-23 Thread Spencer Russell
Has anyone made a nice real-time spectrogram[1] patch? The spectrogram.pd patch that comes with gridflow is pretty close to what I'm looking for, except that it doesn't display any past data, but I figured before i started figuring out how gridflow works I'd check to see if anyone had done the

Re: [PD] Spectrogram patch?

2010-01-23 Thread Spencer Russell
, I'm in the middle of an unfinished patch... it's really chaos, but i can send you the patch and the pix_spectrogram external source as well if you'd like... attached is a screenshot of how it looks right now... J On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Spencer Russell spencer.f.russ

Re: [PD] introducing l2ork

2009-10-30 Thread Spencer Russell
Great news! May I ask what the considerations were when choosing the MSI Wind netbooks? -spencer On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Ivica Ico Bukvic ico.buk...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings all, I wanted to share with you my latest Linux-based and Linuxaudio.org-related project that has been

Re: [PD] Patching circle NYC

2009-10-02 Thread Spencer Russell
I'd also be interested hanging with some other NYC PD Nerds. Brooklyn is easier for me in general, but I have to go up near Columbia on Fridays to teach an electronics class, so if we're using some space at TC it would be great if it were on a Friday around 7. -s- On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:32

Re: [PD] granulator for live performance

2009-07-16 Thread Spencer Russell
Sorry for the delay. If anyone wants to try my granulator (which I'm pretty proud of), it should now be available for download (with any necessary abstractions) at: http://airwav.es/projects/sfr-granulator at some point I'll put a help patch together, but the different sliders are documented on

[PD] Speaker protection abstraction

2008-12-01 Thread Spencer Russell
Most of my live performance work involves realtime processing of upright bass, and I find myself often using a lot of very short variable IIR taps (delays with feedback). I use either my 500-watt bass amp or the house PA as output. Right now I don't have any explicit patchage to make sure I'm

Re: [PD] patching circles in nyc?

2008-11-21 Thread Spencer Russell
Sounds fun. I'm going to try to drop by for a few hours before I head into work. -spencer On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 20, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Spencer Russell wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL

Re: [PD] patching circles in nyc?

2008-11-20 Thread Spencer Russell
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so I talked with some people here at Eyebeam. Does this work for people: Saturday 11/22, noon-6pm Eyebeam (http://eyebeam.org) 540 W. 21st St. NY, NY Is the idea of a patching circle that we play

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Open source your mobile devices, Oct 14th @ Eyebeam

2008-10-15 Thread Spencer Russell
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 10, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Gunter Geiger wrote: Are you going to install Pd or PDa ? PDa, of course. I've been making a lot of builds using OpenEmbedded. I am working on a custom OpenEmbedded image/distro

Re: [PD] recommendations for usb (firewire?) audio interfaces?

2008-09-23 Thread Spencer Russell
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: B. Bogart hat gesagt: // B. Bogart wrote: I'm looking for my first decent audio interface, as I'm getting more in to sound and will start working on my first audio installation. I would like something with 3-4 mic inputs, and

Re: [PD] pix_record - pix_film plays back too fast

2008-08-05 Thread Spencer Russell
. The choice of codec is very important too. H.264 is not going to work well for real time capture, but Apple Intermediate is designed for it. On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Spencer Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using pix_record to write processed video captured live from a DV cam to disk

[PD] pix_record - pix_film plays back too fast

2008-08-04 Thread Spencer Russell
I'm using pix_record to write processed video captured live from a DV cam to disk, and then playing it back with pix_film. Unfortunately, it seems to record at around 16fps even though GEM should be running at 20. I tried lowering GEM to 15 fps thinking that maybe it was having trouble keeping up,

[PD] [GEM] Flatten Alpha for storage, then restore it

2008-08-01 Thread Spencer Russell
I'm mixing video by background subtracting it and then setting the background transparent (alpha = 0), then texturing each video onto overlapping rectangles to achieve a compositing effect. I need to record the different videos with [pix_record] and then play them back later while preserving the

Re: [PD] [GEM] Flatten Alpha for storage, then restore it

2008-08-01 Thread Spencer Russell
to saturate the mask so it's basically black and white. (is there a cleaner way to turn all non-black pixels white?) -spencer On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Spencer Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm mixing video by background subtracting it and then setting the background transparent (alpha = 0

Re: [PD] [GEM] Flatten Alpha for storage, then restore it

2008-08-01 Thread Spencer Russell
trying with more than one of them. -spencer On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use [pix_write]. ++ Jack Le 2 août 08 à 02:25, Spencer Russell a écrit : I'm mixing video by background subtracting it and then setting the background transparent (alpha = 0

[PD] 2nd instance of [pix_record] crashes

2008-08-01 Thread Spencer Russell
I've been having a heck of a time with pix_record. The attached patch reliably causes a segfault if you record to one pix_record, stop the recording, then record to the second one. I'm using Ubuntu Hardy with pd-extended 0.40.3-1 packaged by Hans. My libquicktime version is 2:1.0.0+debian-5. and

Re: [PD] freehand drawing on video in GEM

2008-07-22 Thread Spencer Russell
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le 22 juil. 08 à 02:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Single buffered drawing won't work with what he is describing, unless he repaints all of the brush strokes. When a new video frame is drawn, it will overwrite everything. This

[PD] freehand drawing on video in GEM

2008-07-21 Thread Spencer Russell
I need to blob track a point of light in a video and use it to draw freehand in the GEM window, possibly mixed with previously-recorded video clips. I'd also like to connect the adjacent points with lines so that the drawing is continuous. I'm still pretty new to GEM, but I'm working on getting

Re: [PD] freehand drawing on video in GEM

2008-07-21 Thread Spencer Russell
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:28 PM, chris clepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Single buffer rendering can be used for 'painting' using a geos as various brush types. The difficulty though, is that I want to draw some parts in a freehand single-buffer style, but I want it to be mixed and layered with

Re: [PD] How to read .mid files

2008-07-17 Thread Spencer Russell
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:26:28 +0200 From: Costis Benardis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PD] How to read .mid files Hi I have a simple (i hope) question. How can i read a midi file stored in my hd. What i want to do is to read data from a .mid file and write them in a table. Thanks

[PD] unclamped pix_subtract?

2008-07-14 Thread Spencer Russell
I'm trying to implement a background subtractor using pix_buffer to store the reference frame, and then subtracting it from the live video input, then using that subtraction as an alpha mask for the live video. The problem is that pix_subtract clamps the output at 0, but I need it to not clamp,

[PD] HMM library - Chroma Analysys - Midifile dump (was: Midi File Playback)

2008-06-29 Thread Spencer Russell
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 1:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Luigi Rensinghoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seq works fine so far ... but...what about playback speed ?? I'm working on a score following toolkit using the GHMM library for hidden markov models, and as

[PD] Performance with PD in NYC Tonight!

2008-03-27 Thread Spencer Russell
Tonight is the Columbia Computer Music Center's monthly Fun Night! I'll be performing my sensor(and PD)-augmented double bass alongside drum psychopath Kevin Shea and bearded trombonist Ryan Snow. Also performing will be Jordan Paul on drums and electronics, and Victor Adan on dot matrix

Re: [PD] Performance with PD in NYC Tonight!

2008-03-27 Thread Spencer Russell
Oh, right, andthe info! Columbia CMC Fun Night! 8PM Thursday March 27th! Prentis Hall 3rd Floor! 632 W. 125th St.! New York, NY! On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 07:53 -0400, Spencer Russell wrote: Tonight is the Columbia Computer Music Center's monthly Fun Night! I'll be performing my sensor

[PD] send~/receive~ and throw~/catch~ pairs in reblocked patches

2008-03-18 Thread Spencer Russell
I'm trying to send some signals around a reblocked patch, and I'm getting the following errors: error: sigsend 1002-test: unexpected vector size error: receive~ 1002-test: vector size mismatch this happens in a simple test patch with a send~/receive~ pair inside of a subpatch that's reblocked to

Re: [PD] send~/receive~ and throw~/catch~ pairs in reblocked patches

2008-03-18 Thread Spencer Russell
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 17:17 +0900, hard off wrote: oops, sorry for double reply spencer..forgot to send this mail to the list. no problem. I get the digest, so this sped up the process, anyways! :) the [send~] [receive~] objects only work for default block size. hmm, the block~

[PD] Text entry in PDa on the N800

2007-12-29 Thread Spencer Russell
Hey Guenter and list, I just got a nokia N800 handheld internet tablet, and of course the first order of business is to get PD running on it! The package installed without a hitch, and i can run it just fine. I'm stuck on how to enter any text, though. I know it would be silly to do much patching

[PD] PD on a DSP?

2007-12-24 Thread Spencer Russell
Has anyone had experience running PD using a dedicated DSP? I'm going to be starting an embedded PD-based project and my plan has been to use PDa on an ARM, but I'm wondering if I might be able to get more speed by offloading some of the maths to a DSP. If I used a floating-point DSP could I port

Re: [PD] timing question

2007-12-17 Thread Spencer Russell
Here's a patch that outputs the actual time of the bangs from a metro, and also shows the phasor~ clone generated using vline~. You can see that the actual time that the metro outputs is +/- 5ms (on my system), but the phasor has a constant period anyways! Craziness. So if I wanted to use PD to

Re: [PD] high pass filter for images

2007-11-05 Thread Spencer Russell
Do you want to out pixels that are constant in time, or are you looking for a 2-dimentional spacial highpass? -spencer On 11/5/07, punchik punchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i making a multituouch surface with pd, i want be able to filter the low and middle bands in the video from my web

Re: [PD] call for testing: Pd-extended fonts on GNU/Linux

2007-09-22 Thread Spencer Russell
http://www.columbia.edu/~sfr2105/SFR-10.png http://www.columbia.edu/~sfr2105/SFR-12.png http://www.columbia.edu/~sfr2105/SFR-16.png I'm using Debian etch, with ttf-bitstream-vera installed. I installed Hans's Pd-0.39.3-extended-rc5-debian-stable-i386.deb package. My resolution is 1400x1050, and

Re: [PD] Font problem? Spaces replaced by boxes

2007-09-07 Thread Spencer Russell
On 9/7/07, jasch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've had the same issue on ubuntu with extended (rev ?, i'd have to go have alook): screenshot here: www.jasch.ch/dl/ds_davos_soundscape/Screenshot.png /*j Yup, that's just what I'm seeing, too. -spencer

[PD] Font problem? Spaces replaced by boxes

2007-09-06 Thread Spencer Russell
Hey all, I recently installed Pd-0.40.3-extended-20070824-debian-testing-i386.deb from the nightly auto-builds, and the first time I ran it I was pleasantly surprised by the improved font appearance throughout. However, the next time I ran it, several days later, any spaces in the status window

[PD] New sensor project video

2007-07-13 Thread Spencer Russell
Howdy, I just posted a new video showing the current status of some distance sensors I've been working on this summer. Now that most of the technical glitches are dealt with, I just need to mount them up on my bass to start the live processing. http://www.columbia.edu/~sfr2105 let me know what

Re: [PD] meet at NIME?

2007-06-09 Thread Spencer Russell
? a 2007/6/7, Spencer Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 6/7/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, you knew something I didn't... ;) It was off for the summer... .hc That's a shame. I got my hopes all up. I'm going to be out of town friday evening

Re: [PD] meet at NIME?

2007-06-09 Thread Spencer Russell
geeks, you can check out the RCA Mark II, a giant tube synth from the 50's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_Mark_II_Sound_Synthesizer Marius and I will be there all day. .hc On Jun 9, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Spencer Russell wrote: I'm getting back into NYC tomorrow (Sunday) morning, so my vote

Re: [PD] meet at NIME?

2007-06-07 Thread Spencer Russell
On 6/7/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, you knew something I didn't... ;) It was off for the summer... .hc That's a shame. I got my hopes all up. I'm going to be out of town friday evening through Sunday morning, but hopefully I'll see some of you at the CMC

Re: [PD] meet at NIME?

2007-06-06 Thread Spencer Russell
The dorkbot site says that dorkbot is off for the summer. Do you guys know something I don't? -spencer On 6/6/07, Alexandre Quessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI all ! I'll be there too, but I will probably not make it for Dorkbot tonight. Friday would sound better. a

Re: [PD] meet at NIME?

2007-06-05 Thread Spencer Russell
If anyone's going to be at the Columbia Computer Music Center open house on Sunday look for a shortish guy with a short beard and yellow glasses. I'm an electrical engineering undergrad, but I'm doing some work in the CMC designing some distance sensors and a sensor-to-OSC interface, so I'll be

Re: [PD] PeRcolate?

2007-03-05 Thread Spencer Russell
It seems that you can download RPMs of percolate at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/pdworld.html#SECTION00063700 spencer On 3/5/07, Stephen Sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there is still a Pd version of PeRcolate available? It seems it hasn't

[PD] [hid] - hid_get_events

2007-01-24 Thread Spencer Russell
Hey there List, When I try to use hid, I get a flood of hid_get_events messages in the PD console. It seems like the object is still working, but it makes it difficult to use the console for any debugging. Something in a patch that I haven't used in a while is crashing my system, so I'm trying to