Re: [PD] nsend and nreceive released

2007-09-26 Thread Claude Heiland-Allen
Luke Iannini (pd) wrote: [nreceive $0my6sends 6] (with no number argument it will default to acting like a normal send or receive object). I already made an [nreceive] abstraction for my personal use, maybe it's different from yours? See attached. Claude -- http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.or

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote: Even the usual example of a reversed inlet-order, [timer], is reversed *because* outlets of important other objects fire right to left, namely [t b b] which gives the nice [t b b] | | [timer] idiom without crossing wires. There is a use for b

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote: Regarding [outlet]s (and inlets) being position dependent, I've always felt they should accept an argument like [outlet 0] etc to specify which they should be on the outside Chances are that I requested this in 2002. I was using that feature from

[PD] saturday

2007-09-26 Thread marius schebella
hey, hans and I were working for quite a long time on the setup for the wiki. we set up a testwiki at http://pdpedia.at.or.at/en. It is still running on hans' homeserver, so performance could be better. I uploaded a lot of files to have testdata to play with. we want to have the real wiki set up

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Stephen Sinclair wrote: Since [t] is the official work-around for this issue it's certainly no show-stopper, but I think it would be nice, imho, if there were a cleaner way of representing this. Perhaps you need to think about why you think that it is unclean. What is cle

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Derek Holzer wrote: So I am very careful when instructing newcomers about these kinds of things. Unlike Mathieu's (hopefully facetious) comment some emails back on this thread, I would rather not leave them in the dark to struggle for themselves about it, because that's exac

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Yves Degoyon wrote: in my paper "a type theory for the documentation of PureData" this is very useless to quote oneself, gosh all this blah blah just to say everyone should use triggers, i speak of this in day 1 of a workshop. yves sévy encore... rien à faire... rien à ci

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Yves Degoyon
hola, > in my paper "a type theory for the documentation of PureData" this is very useless to quote oneself, gosh all this blah blah just to say everyone should use triggers, i speak of this in day 1 of a workshop. saludos, sevy ___ PD-list@iem.at m

Re: [PD] nsend and nreceive released

2007-09-26 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:05 -0700, Luke Iannini (pd) wrote: > (hallo, tried to send this to pd-announce but was rejected, anyone > know why?) i think you need to subscribe for pd-announce separately. roman ___ Telefonat

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread tim
> If you need to have a specific execution order, then you should use a > [trigger]. It makes it explicit, which is a good thing. > > Hello, What makes this a bit tedious is that, if you insert a new argument inside [t b b b] to get [t f b b b], the connections already in place don't move

Re: [PD] Note name to frequency

2007-09-26 Thread Kyle Klipowicz
And with this method you can even do something like: [select C4 C#4 D4 ...] | | | [60( [61( [62( ... and then copy it and paste it several times and change the arguments and messages. (Saves a TON of mouse clicks!) Note, I'm note sure if midi 60 is really C4 off the top of my head! ~K

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Derek Holzer
Hi again, Stephen Sinclair wrote: > However, as seen in this thread, it > is sometimes an very confusing issue for beginners in Pd, especially > if they have any kind of previous experience with Max. Generally, the beginners I am teaching have *no* experience with PD or MAX, so it is simply a m

Re: [PD] Interrupted sound

2007-09-26 Thread Javier García
Hi again, Batuhan Bozkurt wrote: >Is that Ubuntu Studio you are using? Yes, Ubuntu Studio 7.04. Intel Core Duo. >From: Batuhan Bozkurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: pd-list@iem.at >Subject: Re: [PD] Interrupted sound >Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:23:28 +0300 > >Javier García wrote: > > Hi, > > > > whe

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Stephen Sinclair
> this is clearly a problem of your side, and i would even consider it as > a bug of the patch. use [trigger]s, whereever you can. this is MUCH > cleaner, than max' graphic representation, that can be messed up so > easily. After some thought on the subject, I realize that of course if the Pd lang

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Steffen wrote: On 26/09/2007, at 21.06, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Maybe I didn't write as much as that on that topic in the actual paper, as I was already well over the maximum "allowed" length. Id say: Spice that paper with all of that and distribute it. I'd like to read it.

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 13:12 -0400, marius schebella wrote: > Derek Holzer wrote: > > It can get especially confusing > > when sends and receives get involved. > > the pd solution is not much better, you most of the times can not tell > which receive will get a message first. > marius. also here

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:57 -0400, Stephen Sinclair wrote: > > Right now I'm pretty confused. What did I miss? In retrospect, it seems > > very odd to me that switching the lines sending velocity ad note in arp > > would have any effect. I would expect those to lines to happen > > "simultaneously"

Re: [PD] Bug in lister (zexy) ?

2007-09-26 Thread Cyrille . Damez
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 22:45:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ie if the left inlet of the lister has changed in between err, oops, I meant the right (cold) inlet :( ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lis

[PD] Bug in lister (zexy) ?

2007-09-26 Thread Cyrille . Damez
I think I ran into a bug in zexy's lister, or at least a surprising behavior that should perhaps be documented. It seems that its output is reevaluated for each inlet it is connected to (ie if the left inlet of the lister has changed in between because of the depth-first traversal, its output wi

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Luke Iannini (pd)
Sorry I can't quote correctly, I'm typing from a mobile. Regarding [outlet]s (and inlets) being position dependent, I've always felt they should accept an argument like [outlet 0] etc to specify which they should be on the outside, and perhaps revert to the current behavior with no argument. Also

Re: [PD] Note name to frequency

2007-09-26 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Sam Clayton hat gesagt: // Sam Clayton wrote: > Is there an external or abstraction that can take a symbol from a > message such as "Ab4" and output a frequency message, such as > "207.65234879"? It would be something like mtof, but for text rather > than midi note numbers. > > Are there a

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Steffen hat gesagt: // Steffen wrote: > On 26/09/2007, at 17.57, Stephen Sinclair wrote: > > > looking at an outlet with several lines > > coming out of it, to determine what order they will trigger. > > I think the question, from Atte, was about the order in case of > multiple outlets

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Stephen Sinclair wrote: I didn't mean to push people's buttons by making the faux pas of a comparison with Max, but in this respect I do find that at least Max has a deterministic way of showing what messages are going to send in what order. I consider this an improvement

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Atte André Jensen
Steffen wrote: > I think the question, from Atte, was about the order in case of > multiple outlets of an object. That is not about multiple lines/ > connections out of a single outlet. I've been working a lot on the external since then. And after a complete rewrite 2 times, it works very rob

Re: [PD] Interrupted sound

2007-09-26 Thread Batuhan Bozkurt
Javier García wrote: > Hi, > > when i go to "Test Audio", i hear the noise and the tone but interrupted. > > These are my steps: > > - Open qjackctl > - Open pd > - On pd, choose Media>jack > > I have attached an image of the connections. > > > br. > GARFF > > __

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Steffen
On 26/09/2007, at 21.06, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > Maybe I didn't write as much as that on that topic in the actual > paper, as I was already well over the maximum "allowed" length. Id say: Spice that paper with all of that and distribute it. I'd like to read it. Lenght should not be a probl

Re: [PD] Manual conversion of a Pure Data file in Max/MSP

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: personally i think that the "feature" of max to respect the left-to-right order is really a bug, but that is just me... The feature of respecting right-to-left order of wires could make sense if patches remained simple, as it makes the diagrams

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Stephen Sinclair
> Why do you consider this a "fundamental problem" exactly? Because there is information about the data-flow of the program that is simply not represented by what you are seeing. I consider that pretty fundamental. However, as I said, there is the [trigger] work-around, and that's fine. I don't

Re: [PD] Note name to frequency

2007-09-26 Thread Steffen
On 26/09/2007, at 20.19, Sam Clayton wrote: > Is there an external or abstraction that can take a symbol from a > message such as "Ab4" and output a frequency message, such as > "207.65234879"? n2m from mjlib does almost. Connect it in serial with mtof and your there -- except that that: [Ab4

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Steffen wrote: On 26/09/2007, at 20.33, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Currently, documentation does not systematically say when it is that the order is right-to-left and when it is not. Risking to repeat your point(?): Since it's possible to make it not right-to-left, shouldn't t

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Steffen
On 26/09/2007, at 20.33, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > Currently, documentation does not systematically say when it is > that the order is right-to-left and when it is not. Risking to repeat your point(?): Since it's possible to make it not right-to-left, shouldn't that be considered a flaw (in

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, marius schebella wrote: Derek Holzer wrote: It can get especially confusing when sends and receives get involved. the pd solution is not much better, you most of the times can not tell which receive will get a message first. This depends on creation order of objects, tha

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Steffen
On 26/09/2007, at 17.57, Stephen Sinclair wrote: > looking at an outlet with several lines > coming out of it, to determine what order they will trigger. I think the question, from Atte, was about the order in case of multiple outlets of an object. That is not about multiple lines/ connection

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Jamie Bullock
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:57 -0400, Stephen Sinclair wrote: > > > It would be nice to fix it, but unfortunately doing so would probably > affect backwards-compatibility with people's patches. > Anyways, if you have something which absolutely depends on the order > in which a message is sent out mult

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Derek Holzer wrote: Actually, the fact that on-screen position affects order of operations at all is very illogical if you ask me. If it is so, then please figure out what to do with [inlet]s and [outlet]s because those objects change behaviour according to position in th

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: Atte André Jensen wrote: If someone could enlighten me, I'd be most happy :-) generally i often find it easier to use a list instead of separate outlets. this way elements that belong together are also grouped together. (if you need the separate

Re: [PD] Note name to frequency

2007-09-26 Thread Derek Holzer
There are some music analysis objects in Maxlib. Open the maxlib-help.pd file that comes with it for an overview of the music analysis objects. Maybe best if you install PD Extended if you're new to this. I think most of the Maxlib objects go the other way around from what you describe... they

[PD] Note name to frequency

2007-09-26 Thread Sam Clayton
Is there an external or abstraction that can take a symbol from a message such as "Ab4" and output a frequency message, such as "207.65234879"? It would be something like mtof, but for text rather than midi note numbers. Are there any externals dealing with turning text representations of chords s

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Derek Holzer wrote: > Howdy all, > > David Powers wrote: > >> Actually, once you get used to PD, max patches typically look far >> less >> 'logical', in my opinion. > > Actually, the fact that on-screen position affects order of operations > at all is very illogical

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, David Powers hat gesagt: // David Powers wrote: > Actually, once you get used to PD, max patches typically look far less > 'logical', in my opinion. Actually I believe that even among Max users, using the trigger is considered good practice (at least the Max users in my area tell me this.)

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread marius schebella
Derek Holzer wrote: > It can get especially confusing > when sends and receives get involved. the pd solution is not much better, you most of the times can not tell which receive will get a message first. marius. ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBS

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Sep 26, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Stephen Sinclair wrote: >> Right now I'm pretty confused. What did I miss? In retrospect, it >> seems >> very odd to me that switching the lines sending velocity ad note >> in arp >> would have any effect. I would expect those to lines to happen >> "simultaneousl

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Derek Holzer
Howdy all, David Powers wrote: > Actually, once you get used to PD, max patches typically look far less > 'logical', in my opinion. Actually, the fact that on-screen position affects order of operations at all is very illogical if you ask me. It can get especially confusing when sends and rece

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread David Powers
On 9/26/07, Stephen Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right now I'm pretty confused. What did I miss? In retrospect, it seems > > very odd to me that switching the lines sending velocity ad note in arp > > would have any effect. I would expect those to lines to happen ... > > My patches are j

Re: [PD] Opening a PD patch on Startup in OSX

2007-09-26 Thread Yves Degoyon
ola, Energy saving ratings never take this into account, afaik. what is more energy saving is no to have any heating systems ( live in the south ) and no conditionned air ( that always makes you sick ) sevy isn't that a bit [OT]? ___ PD-l

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Stephen Sinclair
> Right now I'm pretty confused. What did I miss? In retrospect, it seems > very odd to me that switching the lines sending velocity ad note in arp > would have any effect. I would expect those to lines to happen > "simultaneously" at least from interconnected pd-objects point of view. Personally

Re: [PD] Opening a PD patch on Startup in OSX

2007-09-26 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Sep 26, 2007, at 6:20 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Max Neupert wrote: > >> Am 23.09.2007 um 18:35 schrieb Greg Pond: >>> I havent encountered the problem that you have but I dont >>> shutdown my >>> machines at night. Is there some reason you need to? >> what about savi

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Atte André Jensen hat gesagt: // Atte André Jensen wrote: > Right now I'm pretty confused. What did I miss? In retrospect, it seems > very odd to me that switching the lines sending velocity ad note in arp > would have any effect. I would expect those to lines to happen > "simultaneously

Re: [PD] Opening a PD patch on Startup in OSX

2007-09-26 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Max Neupert wrote: Am 23.09.2007 um 18:35 schrieb Greg Pond: I havent encountered the problem that you have but I dont shutdown my machines at night. Is there some reason you need to? what about saving some energy and our earth ;) or is that a no reason? As soon as you s

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] pdlua-0.2 released

2007-09-26 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Claude Heiland-Allen hat gesagt: // Claude Heiland-Allen wrote: > pdlua is a library for extending Pd with Lua ( http://www.lua.org ) Additional note for Debian/Ubuntu-users: Install "liblua5.1-dev" (and lua5.1 lua5.1-doc if you like). Debian keeps the version numbers in the lua library

Re: [PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Atte André Jensen wrote: > > If someone could enlighten me, I'd be most happy :-) > generally i often find it easier to use a list instead of separate outlets. this way elements that belong together are also grouped together. (if you need the separate values, you can always use [pack]) mfga.dr

[PD] fundamental hot/cold midi question

2007-09-26 Thread Atte André Jensen
Hi So I made to externals, [arp] (arpeggiator) and [legato] (legato monophonic midi module). My idea for both of them to be insertable "in a midi stream" for instance just after [notein], so they both have (amongst other things) a note inlet (leftmost, hot) and velocity (second to the left, co