[PD] Are there alternative means of creating patches besides the graphical editor?

2011-02-02 Thread Morgan Packard
Hello there. I'm interested in using PD. However, as someone who spends a lot of time with code, I'm actually a little afraid of the learning curve involved with the graphical programming language! I'd be much more comfortable creating my patches using, for example, a Python tool. Does such a progr

Re: [PD] Maybe I'm pushing dynamic object creation too far

2011-02-02 Thread Phil Stone
Ed, I don't know if anecdotal confirmation will help you here, or just make you more frustrated, but I've noticed that I get more dropouts using Jack as opposed to portaudio (OS X) for the exact same processor-load. This has caused me to switch back to portaudio. Does anybody have any idea wh

Re: [PD] Maybe I'm pushing dynamic object creation too far

2011-02-02 Thread Ed Kelly
> On 2011-02-02 01:00, Ed Kelly wrote: > > I get dropouts, regardless of the jack buffer size/buffers number. Is this > > because the dynamic creation of a new object interrupts the pd audio > > stream? >If > > > so, can this be alleviated - 1. is it a GUI problem (and will pd 0.43 fix > > it

Re: [PD] how can I clear [vd~]

2011-02-02 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Did you add your patch to the tracker? No, but now I did : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3170987&group_id=55736&atid=478072 ___ | Mathieu Bouchard tél: +1.514

Re: [PD] R: Re: saving relative paths in a textfile

2011-02-02 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Athos Bacchiocchi wrote: If i didn't misunderstood, your hint is to get the patch's path and compare it with the sound file's path given by openpanel, to obtain a relative path. Well, I didn't have a complete idea of how to do it ; I only stated how I'd get started. And

Re: [PD] Am I alone?

2011-02-02 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Wed, 2/2/11, patko wrote: > From: patko > Subject: Re: [PD] Am I alone? > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" > Cc: "pd-list" > Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 12:37 PM > Music is something we can have > permenantly in the mind, and this is actually hidden from > anyone point of view, > no one

Re: [PD] Am I alone?

2011-02-02 Thread Stephane Nguyen
I think music is globaly a raisonnance "buisness". Not something material, like an instrument itself even if it is also a physical phenomena , because we can hear it through the air. And it is also a communication system where several poeple can be involved in. You can remember a music like a phys

Re: [PD] Am I alone?

2011-02-02 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
There must be some explanatory context missing from that quote because as it is, it looks like a flip play on words: "There is no such thing as the Chicken Dance. The Chicken Dance is not a thing at all but an activity, something people do." -Jonathan ___

Re: [PD] Am I alone?

2011-02-02 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, J. Simon van der Walt wrote: ‘There is no such thing as music. Music is not a thing at all but an activity, something that people do.’ Christopher Small (1998) ‘Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening’ An activity is a kind of thing. It's an ontological issue.

[PD] R: Re: saving relative paths in a textfile

2011-02-02 Thread Athos Bacchiocchi
>Messaggio originale >Da: ma...@artengine.ca >[gf/find_file] searches the pd path (list of -path options or equivalent >menu in the settings). [cut] >If you don't want to have to type the name of the patch, you can use >[gf/canvas_filename] to find it : [cut] >But note that if the pd

Re: [PD] Am I alone?

2011-02-02 Thread patko
Music is something we can have permenantly in the mind, and this is actually hidden from anyone point of view, no one would be actually ridiculous by generating music with brain (Can you say that about chicken dance?). Tools have been developped to reproduce this music for sharing a projectio

[PD] [PD-announce] 3rd Pd Scots Users Meet Up, 4th February, Glasgow

2011-02-02 Thread Marco Donnarumma
(sorry for x-posting) Hi all, here a little reminder. On Friday 4th February we'll be gathering for the 3rd Pure Data Scots User MeetUp. The meeting kicks off at 15.00 at the Electron room, CCA, Glasgow. Meeting is free, public and open to all practitioners, beginners, artists, programmers, musi

Re: [PD] Maybe I'm pushing dynamic object creation too far

2011-02-02 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-02-02 01:00, Ed Kelly wrote: > I get dropouts, regardless of the jack buffer size/buffers number. Is this > because the dynamic creation of a new object interrupts the pd audio stream? > If > so, can this be alleviated - 1. is it a GUI probl