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. >
just to chime in: pd internally uses 32bit floats, which will make your idea troublesome to implement as soon as you want patterns longer than (...cannot rembmer right now). you could always use zexy's [symbol2list] to convert a symbol [+-+-+---+-++] into a list of symbols + - + - + - - - + - + + which can then easily be passed with a kind of [drip] (or [list/drip] into a [select] in order to trigger stuff. mfg.asdr IOhannes _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list