Hi, sorry I do know that, but it's not my question. In order to use the bitwise operators, I think I need to convert an arbitrary string of 0's and 1's, say "00010101", into an integer, in this case I think 21. Is that more clear?
Thanks, David On 3/16/07, Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 16/03/2007, at 18.44, David Powers wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Is it possible to somehow convert back and forth between integer and > > binary in PD? > > > > My idea, is to represent simple drum machine style rhythms as binary > > numbers. [101010001011]. Ok, so if this were a float, it would be > > trivial to do a common task and shift the rhythm left or right. I > > think, that other rhythmic variations would also be quite fast to > > implement using this system, you can do binary math instead of list > > operations which should be much faster, I assume. > > > I think you want to have a look at the bitwice operators &,&&,|,||,<< > and >>. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise_operation > > Hope this helps. > _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list