[PD] relative paths with mrpeach [midifile] in abstraction

2014-01-25 Thread Dan Wilcox
Is there some way to modify mrpeach [midifile] so that it will correctly handle relative paths while it's in an abstraction? I notice that soundfiler does this. Bascially, I have a wrapper around midifile but it assumes given relative paths are relative to the wrapper patch and not the parent

Re: [PD] comments with trailing | ?

2014-01-25 Thread IOhannes m zmölnig
On 01/24/2014 11:23 PM, Peter P. wrote: Dear IOhannes, dear Jonathan, dear list, I feel ashamed (and old-fashioned) as I have not seen this new feature of Pd as a feature I am afraid. Thanks for pointing it out to me. I think it is a nice addon, but also wonder if there is a nice way to

Re: [PD] non linear distortion

2014-01-25 Thread William Brent
Hi Xiao, check out [overdrive~] and [saturate~] from the cyclone and sigpack libraries in extended. On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:38 PM, xiaoping lyu xiaoping@gmail.comwrote: Hi , i been reading that the richness of the sound in tube amplifiers is due natural non-linearities inherent in tube

Re: [PD] declare and abstraction (cont.)

2014-01-25 Thread rolfm
using [declare -path .] works when the main patch is started up through the .pd extension; NOT when the patch is opened through the Pd menu. at least that's what i experience in Windows rolf ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and

[PD] read first bytes of a file with [binfile]

2014-01-25 Thread Jack
It looks like that is not possible. Would it be doable to add that feature to [binfile] because I need to read the first bytes of files 3 Gigabytes ? Thanx. ++ Jack ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -

Re: [PD] read first bytes of a file with [binfile]

2014-01-25 Thread Martin Peach
On 2014-01-25 12:03, Jack wrote: It looks like that is not possible. Would it be doable to add that feature to [binfile] because I need to read the first bytes of files 3 Gigabytes ? For example a message like [read file.ext 200{ | [binfile] would read only the first 200 bytes? That should

Re: [PD] non linear distortion

2014-01-25 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Fre, 2014-01-24 at 15:38 -0800, xiaoping lyu wrote: [...] tube amplifiers [...] are there any nonlinear distortions in pd? or do anybody have tried implementing something like this? signal strength | | [expr~ tanh($v1*$f2)] | Roman

Re: [PD] declare and abstraction (cont.)

2014-01-25 Thread rolfm
sorry, i should be more precise about what i experience. i'm using ../folder to load soundfiles in my patch. while having a [declare -path .] in the main patch. like i said in the first mail: this works when the patch is started up 'directly'. when i first start Pd and then open the patch

[PD] Comma in Textfile Vanilla Solution

2014-01-25 Thread me.grimm
I didnt realize this was a problem until i tried to read a textfile with a comma in it (yes escaped with a \) so hello\,world; gives me: hello\\,world now what? the archive was not helpful because all suggested solutions use extended objects. is there no way to have a coma in textfile in

Re: [PD] declare and abstraction (cont.)

2014-01-25 Thread Miller Puckette
Are you using readsf~ to read th soundfile? Unfortunately, readsf~ doesn't search along the canvas's path (for complicated reasons) and so needs to be sent an explicit path, like ../folder/a.wav, to find files outside the patch's directory. Alternatively you can set Pd's global path in