Re: [PD] RIP Ed Kelly

2024-04-03 Thread Andy Farnell
Late to this very sad news. Condolences to all Ed's close friends and family. Well done all those honouring Ed by collecting and archiving his patches and music. RIP Ed. On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 02:49:26PM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: > Tehomas Bow on facebook gave us the bad news. He

Re: [PD] water model object

2023-12-19 Thread Andy Farnell
Hey Kasper if you can't find it somewhere online (aspress.co.uk likely) send me a pm and can send you files. best, andy On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 12:44:48PM +0100, Kasper Jordaens wrote: > Hi, > > a couple of years ago, I bumped into an object or an abstraction that was > able to synthesize the

Re: [PD] Relative Db measurement

2023-12-19 Thread Andy Farnell
Folllowing up on Chris's question; has anyone done much calibration for more scientific projects like audiometry? I'm quite interested in ways of measuring and, if needed, slightly rescaling to get accurate dBV (analog domain signals) assuming a decent sound DAC, good holiday wishes a. On

Re: [PD] Relative Db measurement

2023-11-04 Thread Andy Farnell
Measure rather than determine (by calculating the change in the multiplier) means resampling the signal, and I've always been a bit confused about what is the best way to do that, the choices being [samphold] and [env]. So I'd also be interested in the best (most accurate) answer. On Sat, Nov

Re: [PD] off topic: congrats Miller for the Silver Lion award from La Biennale di Venezia

2023-10-21 Thread Andy Farnell
Bloody good show, and so very well deserved. """ In the motivation for the Silver Lion Lucia Ronchetti writes: In recognising the work of Miller Puckette, the Biennale Musica pursues its path of attributing the award to figures on the contemporary music scene who, through their programming,

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Pd 0.54-0 test 1 released

2023-06-20 Thread Andy Farnell
Thanks Miller, multi-sig lines are something I've dreamed of. very best, a. On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 08:49:15PM -0700, Miller Puckette wrote: > To Pd-announce: > > Pd version 0.54-0test1 is available from http://msp.ucsd.edu/software.htm > or (source only) via github:

Re: [PD] Design / Philosophy principles behind Pd development

2022-01-04 Thread Andy Farnell
Maybe it was never official credo but Pd seems to have the least backwards-harm while still managing to keep developing. Hi list, > > I wish a f.. good year for the pd community ! > > I will teach some workshops about Pd and I would like to speak about the > design principles behind Pd

Re: [PD] infinite reverbs

2021-11-04 Thread Andy Farnell
pvoc reverb in the audio examples lets you freeze the effect rather nicely On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 12:50:38PM +, Jeppi Jeppi wrote: > Hi all, > which are your favourite pd abstractions/externals able to work as very > long/infinite reverbs, possibly with the option to freeze the reverb when

Re: [PD] sad news: RIP Martin Peach

2021-07-06 Thread Andy Farnell
Because his dev tag for the library was [mrpeach-] it took me ages to figure that it was "Martin" as I would email Dear Mr. Peach. He patiently let it slide and I imagined he always wore a dark suit and shades like Reservoir Dogs. RIP and thanks Martin. On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 06:58:25AM

[PD] [OFFTOPIC] Re: SND (Was Audacity)

2021-07-05 Thread Andy Farnell
On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 07:28:03AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > Hi Andy ! > > >... Running an old copy of CoolEdit98 under Wine or Roger > >Dannenberg's Snd reminds me what a real audio editor should feel > >like. > > You mean Bill Schottstaedt's SND ? I did mean that Dave, Kjetil also put me

[PD] [PD-announce] OFFTOPIC: Audacity]

2021-07-05 Thread Andy Farnell
On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 12:09:17PM +0200, Kjetil Matheussen wrote: > On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 11:32 AM Andy Farnell > wrote: > > Following the lamentable tale on HN, it seems audacity, a stand-alone > > What does HN stand for? Hacker-News (https://news.ycombinator.com/news)

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] OFFTOPIC: Audacity

2021-07-05 Thread Andy Farnell
I've said here and in other forums, there's much naivete around project governance in OSS. The FSF (hopefully in its refreshed configuration) really could offer some advisory guidelines. In today's predatory environment even sole developers need to think defensively around trademarks, patents,

Re: [PD] Pd FLOSS Manual, what to do with it?

2021-05-31 Thread Andy Farnell
The option I feel safest with is (3). Why do I mention safety? I'm not saying there is anything wrong with Flossmanuals - *really, but in the last few years, as my focus has shifted to cybersecurity and digital rights. I've become dismayed with governance issues in free software, from the

Re: [PD] Adding up a thicket of oscillators

2021-03-14 Thread Andy Farnell
Hi Michael, I think the magic number you are after is 0.013888 (that's 1/72), to multiply the sum by _before_ your fader. cheers, Andy On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 03:31:23AM +0100, Michael Karr wrote: > Hello! > > I am working on a multichannel sound piece, with 72 oscillators, receiving > data

Re: [PD] Anyone interested in to do “translations” of old patchs?

2020-12-31 Thread Andy Farnell
If there's a lot of them likely that a script could do a global search and replace. Probably lost now, but Chris McCormick or Hans once helped me with a Pd parser for replacing all instances of [ead~] with a vanilla substitute. IIRC it was all bash + awk + grep a. On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at

Re: [PD] Happy birthday, Miller!

2020-12-07 Thread Andy Farnell
FB account is in my dog's name and > list his birthday, not mine). But any day is a 1/365.25thpyear birthday > (approximately). > > cheers > Miller > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 10:21:28PM +, Andy Farnell wrote: > > > PD has allowed my soul to sing. > > &

Re: [PD] Happy birthday, Miller!

2020-12-07 Thread Andy Farnell
> PD has allowed my soul to sing. Thats so cool. Yeah Pd was a doorway that opened a whole new world in my life. Raise a glass to that. On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 02:24:04PM -0500, William Huston wrote: > Dear Miller, > > Patrick Pagano says on FB that it's you birthday. > > Hope you have a

Re: [PD] ISO works combining PD and sculpture

2020-10-29 Thread Andy Farnell
Sometimes I lend a hand to my neighbor Guy, he's big into Pd, installation and interactive sculpture, but I don't think he's on this list. http://guydowsett.com/ andy > > Am 26.10.2020 um 20:54 schrieb bbob : > > > > for my students, I'm looking for examples of work that combines PD and >

Re: [PD] Checking for interest: Scheme interpreter external for PD

2020-10-23 Thread Andy Farnell
, 2020 at 11:31:48AM +0200, Kjetil Matheussen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 10:26 AM Andy Farnell > wrote: > > > > Would love to see Scheme come to Pd. > > > There's also k_guile from 2004, that still compiles: > https://github.com/kmatheussen/k_guile > Do

Re: [PD] Checking for interest: Scheme interpreter external for PD

2020-10-22 Thread Andy Farnell
Would love to see Scheme come to Pd. Thanks for that Iain. Andy On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 08:14:26PM -0700, Iain Duncan wrote: > Hello, I'm the author of Scheme for Max, a relatively new open source > external for Max/MSP that hosts an embedded Scheme Lisp interpreter using signature.asc

Re: [PD] udpsend: unsure about raw data

2020-05-24 Thread Andy Farnell
If it's a question of efficiency, to be really really sure, maybe read the UDP packets off the wire/port with tcpdump, which despite its name is quite happy to capture and show UDP too. tcpdump -i lo udp port 9000 -vv -X You'll see any byte order munging or padding due to some NIC/network

[PD] camomile+ardour=nomidiin

2020-03-29 Thread Andy Farnell
Hi all, Maybe someone else is using Ardour 5 and building LV2 plugs in Linux64 and getting no midi inputs in the plugins? Not sure where to ask this, so hoping some pd'ers will know. keep well, andy signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___

Re: [PD] Pd on Tiny Core Linux on Raspberry Pi

2018-02-03 Thread Andy Farnell
Good to know that works Chris. The immutability is a double edged sword. Did you get anywhere with the Core documentation on making a more standard read-write install? I kinda gave yp last time I tried. (immutable) Core is great on RPi zero boards cheers, Andy On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at

Re: [PD] IP address of local machine

2017-12-17 Thread Andy Farnell
Hi Roman, If the server is brokering the traffic then you never need to know the private network addresses as NAT will map them to public port numbers and the router will map the returned packets back to local addresses. But I guess you want to use the server to do peer discovery and then

[PD] Acoustics lecturer. Southampton UK.

2017-11-23 Thread Andy Farnell
Acoustics and audio engineering lecturer (senior) F/T Southampton Solent University Apologies for x-posting A colleague has mentioned that they are looking for someone to teach on the audio engineering and acoustics programme at Southampton Solent. Ideally someone with great physics, a sound

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] pd 0.48-0test1 released

2017-07-21 Thread Andy Farnell
Yes! Readability at a distance is really important in class. I vote for the heaviest dejavu typeface that will work. Also it only just occured to me to say this, so a feature request for some future release; It would be great to make a slightly stronger visual distinction between objects and

Re: [PD] Deken install path & permissions on Debian

2017-04-07 Thread Andy Farnell
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 11:57:25PM +0200, zmoel...@iem.at wrote: > (but of course you need supercow powers to use them) > > gfasdmr > IOhannes Brighten up a common annoying typo by adding this to your .bashrc apt-vache() { apt-cache $@ | cowsay; } $ apt-vache search xclock

[PD] AES UK 2017 UP Event

2017-02-09 Thread Andy Farnell
and Acoustica and books from Focal Press. Find out more at http://upyouroutput.com all best wishes, Andy Farnell signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Pd-list@lists.iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> ht

Re: [PD] PdParty official release

2016-11-01 Thread Andy Farnell
Hip Hip Hooray and massive props to all involved. This opens up the joys of Pd to a whole new generation. Andy On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 10:06:10AM -0600, Dan Wilcox wrote: > Howdy all, > > After years of on and off work, I’m pleased to announce PdParty 1.0.2 is > available for download on the

Re: [PD] [pdconv16_r] Expanding abstractions & Compiling Vanilla Patches As Objects (Gen~?)

2016-11-01 Thread Andy Farnell
Its an idea I've long supported, for perhaps 10 years. But there are some subtle dangers to openness. Given the very small size of Pd patch code in relation to even the simplest compiled external we might agree a principle, a standard, an unwritten law if you like that any pd abstraction

Re: [PD] legal issues with reverse engineering proprietary software (such as Max)

2016-08-27 Thread Andy Farnell
zicar...@cycling74.com a. On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 05:49:39PM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: > and exactly just a couple of minutes over a week I sent an email to > info@cyclone: no answers :) > > 2016-08-20 16:52 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres : > > > 2016-08-20

Re: [PD] freeverb~ known Bug

2016-07-29 Thread Andy Farnell
Havent looked at the code but from the description 1) Algorithm adds a silent but tiny anount of noise 2) Problem happens after many seconds "idle" its a denormals problem and will depend on architecture cheers Andy On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 01:39:15PM +0200, Fred Jan Kraan wrote: > Hi José, >

Re: [PD] Machine learning and sound ?

2016-07-24 Thread Andy Farnell
We use a combo of modified mfcc and k-means at Mogees to get over 95% accuracy of percussion sounds. To add a few words to what Jamie says, on what I've learned about working in this domain; 1) It really helps to understand your problem and the possible ways it can be assisted by ML. Is

Re: [PD] Morse Code Translator / Decoder

2016-06-15 Thread Andy Farnell
Yes did that once, but I lost it years ago (the patch I mean) IIRC its not that hard. Use a [timer] and onset/tone detector, and an array that looks up the next state. You need a way to navigate a tree - a state machine with 26 terminal nodes (36 if you want numbers) and there are four symbols

Re: [PD] high-frequency birdsong

2016-06-06 Thread Andy Farnell
On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 04:03:28PM +, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > > of a signal we could not possibly sample under Nyquist restrictions. > But a public-facing server would regularly be "tweeting", no? Or posting on Facebook? :) a. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [PD] Does Pd have a "sound"?

2016-02-15 Thread Andy Farnell
Good list of technical peculiarities Claude. For me, the "sound" is those quirks combined with how Chris describes a "cultural" or "contextual" use. I used to be great at knowing the sound of software or hardware sources and could spot Reaktor, or a Roland analogue in moments. But emulations got

Re: [PD] closebang and initbang in Vanilla

2016-01-19 Thread Andy Farnell
+ 1 Some behaviour congruent with POSIX signals has always been on my wishlist. Those (admittedly rare) occasions when some unrecoverable IO blockage happens it would be nice to rescue the patch. cheers, Andy On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 08:22:13AM -0800, Miller Puckette wrote: > Good, thanks.