Nope... there needs to be a string-to-binary-list-and-back function somewhere but I can't figure out what to name it :)
M On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 01:26:21AM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: > now, some files come in ratios as one symbol like this > > 5/4 > 3/2 > 7/4 > > I'd need to break them into different characters, then treat as numbers to > get interval in cents. How do I do that? I believe I can't do it in any way > with vanilla objects, right? > > thanks > Alex > > > > 2011/8/3 Alexandre Torres Porres <por...@gmail.com> > > > yeah, it works :) > > > > I knew there had to be an easier way other than the mess I did. > > > > Perfect, Thanks > > > > This is a very cool addon feature to my stuff I'm showing at PdCon, see you > > all there. > > > > See you all there soon! > > > > > > > > > > 2011/8/3 Miller Puckette <m...@ucsd.edu> > > > >> HI Alex -- > >> > >> Have you tried sending textfile an "open [my-filename] cr" message? The > >> "cr" flag asks to interpret newlines as end-of-list. > >> > >> cheers > >> Miller > >> > >> On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 11:51:17PM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: > >> > Hi folks > >> > > >> > Back in the end of my masters, I did make something that allows you to > >> load > >> > scales from the Scala software into Pd, which has a database of over > >> 4000 > >> > scales. > >> > > >> > Check the software and data bank here > >> http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/ > >> > > >> > It's an extremely powerful tool for microtonality, but you may not care > >> for > >> > that and just want to use the scale data bank in Pd. > >> > > >> > Anyway, I have a way that exports the from the Scala software into a > >> text > >> > file that opens in this specific subpatch of mine. > >> > > >> > But I was trying to do something easier, and that is just load these > >> *.scl > >> > files into [textfile] or [msgfile] for example, and extracting the list > >> of > >> > these scale intervals in cents. > >> > > >> > Here's what one of these files look like > >> > > >> > > >> > ============== > >> > > >> > ! 08-11.scl > >> > ! > >> > 8 out of 11-tET > >> > 8 > >> > ! > >> > 218.18182 > >> > 327.27273 > >> > 436.36364 > >> > 654.54545 > >> > 763.63636 > >> > 872.72727 > >> > 1090.90909 > >> > 2/1 > >> > > >> > > >> > =============== > >> > > >> > So I assumed it'd be easy to extract each cents value and make a list > >> out of > >> > it, but I was wrong. Don't know why but it doesn't load this in separate > >> > lines, maybe because it is not a *.txt file at all. > >> > > >> > And anyway, I'm getting in Pd just a list, so the above file, for > >> example, > >> > file becomes > >> > > >> > > >> > list ! 08-11.scl ! 8 out of 11-tET 8 ! 218.182 327.273 436.364 654.545 > >> > 763.636 872.727 1090.91 2/1 > >> > > >> > > >> > I seem to have found a messy way to get the list out of it, but maybe > >> you > >> > people know of something really simple and elegant with some extended > >> > objects. > >> > > >> > > >> > Thanks > >> > Alex > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > >> > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list