Re: [PD] better tabread4~

2008-06-23 Thread Matt Barber
Hans-Christoph Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes that'right, hmm I guess I knew that but said it in a woolly way >> >> Amend that to >> >> [tabread~] - "play back at exactly" the original rate >> [tabread4~] - "play back a

Re: [PD] better tabread4~

2008-06-23 Thread Matt Barber
Hello, The speed of this conversation makes me a little uncomfortable. Perhaps [tabread4~] is not so weird after all: if I'm not mistaken, this is algebraically identical to the interpolation used in csound's opcodes (e.g. oscil3)... I'm pretty sure both are piecewise Lagrange polynomial interpol

[PD] read a pixel value

2008-06-23 Thread Ricardo Dueñas Parada
Hi list, I need to use a bmp file as a score, and I need to read a pixel value from a bmp file. I've been looking for an object that can do that, but I haven't found it yet, do you know a way to do that?, maybe with gem? _Ricardo ___ Pd-list@iem.at mai

Re: [PD] better tabread4~

2008-06-23 Thread Charles Henry
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:23 AM, cyrille henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > well, tabread4c~ is far from perfect, it has the same aliasing problem than > tabread4~ and > it create more distortion than tabread4~. (but in lower frequency). Strictly speaking, these interpolations don't create distor

Re: [PD] GEM pix_buffer question

2008-06-23 Thread rainer _
Hi Chris, pix_film & movie dont want the ram message - error: pix_filmNEW: no method for 'ram' . I have tried it with GEM 0.90 & tigital - ??? cheers, Rainer Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:35:10 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PD] GEM pix_buffer question CC: pd-li

[PD] Pd-Extended user prefs locations

2008-06-23 Thread Derek Holzer
Hi HC or somebody else that knows this offhand, I know this has been a big subject of debate on the list this month, so I'll keep this short and simple: Where are the current user preferences files on each platform for Pd-Extended? I have only OS X in front of me now, so I see ~/Library/Prefer

[PD] convolution tutorials?

2008-06-23 Thread David Schaffer
Hi there, I'd like to learn fft/convolution methods (especially to build reverbs or amp. simulation patches), does anyone know of good tutorials around? Thanks a lot! D.S http://www.flickr.com/photos/schafferdavid/ http://audioblog.arteradio.com/David_Schaffer/_

Re: [PD] better tabread4~

2008-06-23 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: This compactness only really helps speed up the typing of code. It hinders the reading of code and the learning of code. Plus it means that us mere mortals, who cannot remember what "c" in [tabread4c~] means, it means we have to constantly r

[PD] Installing Extended on Ubuntu/Debian [WAS: Re: [PD-announce] Proof Me! PD FLOSS Manual]

2008-06-23 Thread Derek Holzer
Hi IOhannes, just getting back around to these edits.. IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > Installing: > > i find it highly confusing that the "Installing Pure Data on Debian" > (and ubuntu) does not mention in a single word that you could just run > "aptitude install puredata" Does this install P

Re: [PD] wiimote and guitarHero Wii

2008-06-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
There is a GNU/Linux Pd object for the wii remote floating around. The Mac OS X version doesn't work (yet), you'll need to use OSCulator for now: http://www.osculator.net/wiki/ .hc On Jun 23, 2008, at 6:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello, > > i want to use the guitar hero wii guitar

Re: [PD] GEM pix_buffer question

2008-06-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Hmm, it seems that the "ram" message never made it into the pix_film/ movie help patches. Are there any details that should be added? .hc On Jun 23, 2008, at 6:35 PM, chris clepper wrote: pix_buffer store the frames uncompressed which is many times larger than DV. You may try the 'ram' m

Re: [PD] wiimote and guitarHero Wii

2008-06-23 Thread Derek Holzer
There was a lot of discussion on this topic a few months ago. Check the archives: http://lists.puredata.info/search/Pd-list?query=guitar+hero&max=20&result=normal&sort=score best! d. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi list, > > i want to use the guitarhero wii guitar with pd. > > it´s actually a

Re: [PD] GEM counter, alternate and friends

2008-06-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
They are in the "markex" lib, where they always have been. It is just that "markex" is no longer included in Gem. It is included in Pd-extended, and is easy enough to build. .hc On Jun 23, 2008, at 6:23 PM, rainer _ wrote: ...where are they gone in GEM ver: 0.91.1 'tigital' ??? This

[PD] wiimote and guitarHero Wii

2008-06-23 Thread l
hello, i want to use the guitar hero wii guitar with Pd. Actually is a wiimote inside a guitar hero axe,and the connection between the computer is via bluetooth with the wiimote. Seems like the wiimote + nunchuck. Have any of you test it yet? Can i use the same wii library to pd or darwinmote

Re: [PD] GEM pix_buffer question

2008-06-23 Thread chris clepper
pix_buffer store the frames uncompressed which is many times larger than DV. You may try the 'ram' message for pix_film/movie which will load the compressed QT mov into RAM. On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:18 AM, rainer _ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > just have rebuilt one of my patches to fetc

Re: [PD] GEM pix_buffer question

2008-06-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
My guess is because pix_buffer stores uncompressed frames, which are much bigger. But I could be wrong. .hc On Jun 23, 2008, at 6:18 PM, rainer _ wrote: Hi, just have rebuilt one of my patches to fetch single videoframes not from harddisc but from RAM with the pix_buffer objects. It wor

[PD] GEM counter, alternate and friends

2008-06-23 Thread rainer _
...where are they gone in GEM ver: 0.91.1 'tigital' ??? This breaks approx. 99,% of my patches. best regards, Rainer _ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http:/

[PD] GEM pix_buffer question

2008-06-23 Thread rainer _
Hi, just have rebuilt one of my patches to fetch single videoframes not from harddisc but from RAM with the pix_buffer objects. It works great, about 20 times faster - the problem is I can`t load more than 960 frames of Quicktime DV PAL in RAM and the 2 GB of RAM are full this is strange be

[PD] seeking graphics for PD FLOSS Manual

2008-06-23 Thread Derek Holzer
Dear PDeople, I'm looking for a volunteer to do some simple graphics and icons for the Pure Data FLOSS Manual. The general description of the images needed follows. Please get in touch with me so we can discuss them a bit more in depth if you are interested to help. PD FLOSS Manual: http://flossm

Re: [PD] better tabread4~

2008-06-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Jun 23, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 14:35 +0200, Steffen Juul wrote: >> On Mon, June 23, 2008 2:17 pm, Roman Haefeli wrote: >> >>> the only good reason to keep [tabread4~] in pd is to keep backwards >>> compatibility with patches that exploit [tabread4~]'s wi

Re: [PD] still the long load time - pd ext

2008-06-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Other people are reporting this too. It doesn't happen with my patches, I ran an installation a couple of weeks ago with the latest version and it worked fine. Could you create a bug report and include a patch or collection of patches that has this problem? .hc On Jun 23, 2008, at 3:12 P

Re: [PD] better tabread4~

2008-06-23 Thread cyrille henry
well, tabread4c~ is far from perfect, it has the same aliasing problem than tabread4~ and it create more distortion than tabread4~. (but in lower frequency). one told me that modern commercial audio software can use 32 points shannon interpolation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker–Shannon_

Re: [PD] still the long load time - pd ext

2008-06-23 Thread João Pais
Hi, just installed the last XP build. The program loads quite fast (but maybe that's because I did it on my new desktop). But the problem with the loading the patch still persists. Is there any relevant information that can be collected from somewhere? João > There is a bug in the prefs l

[PD] [PD-announce] piksel08 - code dreams :: open call

2008-06-23 Thread 220hex
**Piksel08: code dreams december 4-7 2008 Bergen, Norway How does code dream? What are the dreams of code? Piksel08 examines the other side of code, an alternative side to a hard-coded reality of work and play. Open hardware and free software project a utopic vision, ye

Re: [PD] better tabread4~

2008-06-23 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 14:35 +0200, Steffen Juul wrote: > On Mon, June 23, 2008 2:17 pm, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > > the only good reason to keep [tabread4~] in pd is to keep backwards > > compatibility with patches that exploit [tabread4~]'s wierd behaviour, > > imo. > > Witch is a good enough rea

Re: [PD] better tabread4~

2008-06-23 Thread Steffen Juul
On Mon, June 23, 2008 2:17 pm, Roman Haefeli wrote: > the only good reason to keep [tabread4~] in pd is to keep backwards > compatibility with patches that exploit [tabread4~]'s wierd behaviour, > imo. Witch is a good enough reason to keep it, imho. I much prefer Frank's suggestion. I.e. using t

Re: [PD] better tabread4~

2008-06-23 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 06:52 +0100, Andy Farnell wrote: > > Yes that'right, hmm I guess I knew that but said it in a woolly way > > Amend that to > > [tabread~] - "play back at exactly" the original rate > [tabread4~] - "play back at close to the orginal rate" > [tabread4c~] - "play back with wi

Re: [PD] better tabread4~

2008-06-23 Thread Andy Farnell
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:18:11 +0200 Hans-Christoph Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This compactness only really helps speed up the typing of code. It > hinders the reading of code and the learning of code. Plus it means > that us mere mortals, who cannot remember what "c" in [tabread4c~

Re: [PD] better tabread4~

2008-06-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Jun 23, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Andy Farnell wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:38:27 +0200 > Hans-Christoph Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >> Perhaps these could have more descriptive names, especially if there >> was a "tabread", etc. library. Some quick ideas: >> >> [tabread_tweak~] >> [

Re: [PD] better tabread4~

2008-06-23 Thread Andy Farnell
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:38:27 +0200 Hans-Christoph Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps these could have more descriptive names, especially if there > was a "tabread", etc. library. Some quick ideas: > > [tabread_tweak~] > [tabread_transpose~] Hard to argue against, but I'm such a

Re: [PD] autosaving incluing GOP subpatches Autosaver

2008-06-23 Thread Georg Werner
Hi Luigi, my abstraction is just sending a save message to Pd. The same way as if you clicked File>Save. As i understand Pd it should save all subpatches if the mainpatch is saved. So if you put the empty [pd $0-subpatch] (see autosaver-help.pd) as receiver in your mainpatch it should do the same.

Re: [PD] better tabread4~

2008-06-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Jun 23, 2008, at 7:52 AM, Andy Farnell wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:50:44 -0400 (EDT) > Mathieu Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Andy Farnell wrote: >> >>> with [tabread4~] being good enough for playing back files at >>> their original rate, >> >> If you are goi

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Pd-0.40.3-extended-rc2 released

2008-06-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I see now. My guess is that this issue is related to the very large search path caused by having the hexloader and all of the libraries loaded by default. Could you guys try a couple things: - take "hexloader" out of the start up libs and try opening - take all of the libs out of the star

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Pd-0.40.3-extended-rc2 released

2008-06-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Jun 23, 2008, at 5:58 AM, Max Neupert wrote: > Hans, thank you for doing that. > I have some remarks though: > > Am 2008-06-23 um 06:58 schrieb Hans-Christoph Steiner: >> - default locations for user-installed externals, helpfiles, etc. >> Mac OS X: /Library/Pd and ~/Library/Pd > > i still t

Re: [PD] Size of a table

2008-06-23 Thread João Pais
Ok, then in a few days might be ready. > Edit the existing help patch and add this stuff, then add it to the > patch tracker, and it should be included. At least, I'd include it in > Pd-extended. > > .hc > > On Jun 22, 2008, at 12:06 PM, João Pais wrote: > >> who is responsible for this objec

Re: [PD] Fwd: Play a soundfile reverse

2008-06-23 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
Check the help patch for -maxsize, you can override the max with that. .hc On Jun 23, 2008, at 4:58 AM, Ricardo Dueñas Parada wrote: I realized that soundfiler truncate the file to 400 elements. Is there a way to load a file into an array, withuot this restriction? What I'm trying to do