Re: [PD] Sigmund~ parameters

2014-03-13 Thread Benoît Fortier
Hi Miller, Here's a more detailed example. I've found that this problem is particularly obvious with minpower. The sound file I'm playing through sigmund has peaks varying mostly between 60 and 80, with occasional peaks around 90 (according to sigmund's env output). To my understanding the

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ parameters

2014-03-13 Thread Miller Puckette
Hmm..sounds like somethng's not workng rght. I'm traveling this week then booked solid next week, but I'll try to get a look at this when I can. cheers Miller On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 09:48:48AM -0700, Benoît Fortier wrote: Hi Miller, Here's a more detailed example. I've found that this

[PD] Sigmund~ parameters

2014-03-12 Thread Benoît Fortier
Dear list, I've been working on a patch for quite a few months now which involves pitch tracking. I've explored many possible solutions, considering the pros and cons of every approach, made different tests, etc. I've also done a lot of reading (help files, forums, etc), but I couldn't find

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ parameters

2014-03-12 Thread Alexandros Drymonitis
Haven't tried [sigmund~], but [fiddle~] and [helmholtz~] (the latter by Katja Vetter) and I found [both fine but [helmholtz~] a bit better for my taste. I think it's a bit more responsive. What if you combine this with [env~] for example and this way you get pitch and amplitude... On Wed, Mar

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ parameters

2014-03-12 Thread Benoît Fortier
Thanks for your reply. Yes I did some testing with fiddle and Helmholtz, If I need to I'll get to that in an other question. My question wasn't clear enough sorry about that. I would like first to clarify some aspect of the sigmund notes mode which seems very straight forward in the help file,

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ parameters

2014-03-12 Thread Benoît Fortier
Ok folks, never mind, I did some more testing with sigmund~ and I do now see that minpower and growth seems to be working. It works in a way I'm not quite sure to understand so I find it hard to use those parameters in a meaningful, predictable way, but I guess that's because of my limited

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ parameters

2014-03-12 Thread Miller Puckette
I presume you found the (very short) mention in the subppatch of the help wnidow (pd setting-parameters). Basically, if the measured signal power is less than minpower (expressed in dB) then the reported instantaneous potch is zero and no new notes will be reports (and this can give rise to

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-26 Thread Frank Barknecht
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 02:45:38PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Le 2012-02-25 à 09:34:00, Frank Barknecht a écrit : Yes, exactly. I often use data structures, well, as data structures and almost never use them for scores in a UPIC sense. What's UPIC ? I was referring to the UPIC

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-25 Thread Frank Barknecht
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:40:52AM -0800, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: - Original Message - From: Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca To: Miller Puckette m...@ucsd.edu Cc: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [PD] sigmund list sort Le 2012-02-24 à

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-25 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi, On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 01:26:54PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: I have Pd-extended 42.5 that contains Michał Seta's sort, which used to be cubic (O(n³)) and with even lower sorting limits, until I made you replace the O(n²) [list-drip] that used O(n) stack, by one that runs in O(n)

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-25 Thread Frank Barknecht
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 09:38:20AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hi, On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 01:26:54PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: I have Pd-extended 42.5 that contains Michał Seta's sort, which used to be cubic (O(n³)) and with even lower sorting limits, until I made you replace

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2012-02-25 à 09:34:00, Frank Barknecht a écrit : Yes, exactly. I often use data structures, well, as data structures and almost never use them for scores in a UPIC sense. What's UPIC ? __ | Mathieu BOUCHARD -

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-25 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2012-02-25 à 09:45:00, Frank Barknecht a écrit : On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 09:38:20AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 01:26:54PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: I don't know any more recent version of list-abs. To me the home of [list]-abs is the CVS repository, Oops,

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 01:14:22PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: Le 2012-02-18 à 09:58:00, Miller Puckette a écrit : I believe there's no good way to do this in pd vanilla. THere should be a 'list sort' but I haven't figured out what would be the best design. (and there's probably already

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi, attached is an approach using data structures to do the sorting of peaks. Somehow I forgot how to set the sort field in a data structure and cannot find it in the docs. Wasn't there some way to specify a different field than x for sorting? (Maybe it was simply sort fielname which I didn't try

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-24 Thread Miller Puckette
It's odd, but it never occurred to me that one should be able to specify which field(s) to sort on -- it's x, then y. I should fix this... cheers Miller On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 06:46:08PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hi, attached is an approach using data structures to do the sorting of

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-24 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2012-02-24 à 09:51:00, Miller Puckette a écrit : It's odd, but it never occurred to me that one should be able to specify which field(s) to sort on -- it's x, then y. I should fix this... Nearly all the music I ever composed used a vertical time axis. Lots of people are in this

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-24 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2012-02-24 à 09:02:00, Frank Barknecht a écrit : On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 01:14:22PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: the [list-sort] abstraction uses a high-constant O(n²) algorithm that breaks once you try to sort more than 125 values. Actually [list-sort] since quite some time uses the sort

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-24 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
- Original Message - From: Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca To: Frank Barknecht f...@footils.org Cc: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [PD] sigmund list sort Le 2012-02-24 à 09:02:00, Frank Barknecht a écrit : On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 01:14

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-24 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
- Original Message - From: Mathieu Bouchard ma...@artengine.ca To: Miller Puckette m...@ucsd.edu Cc: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [PD] sigmund list sort Le 2012-02-24 à 09:51:00, Miller Puckette a écrit : It's odd, but it never occurred

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-24 Thread labyrinthuscochlearis
hi, thank you, i will look at it right away! all the best, christian Am Freitag, den 24.02.2012, 18:46 +0100 schrieb Frank Barknecht: Hi, attached is an approach using data structures to do the sorting of peaks. Somehow I forgot how to set the sort field in a data structure and cannot find

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-19 Thread labyrinthuscochlearis
Thank you! I really have to get into GridFlow. All the best, c Am Samstag, den 18.02.2012, 11:28 -0500 schrieb Mathieu Bouchard: Le 2012-02-18 à 16:19:00, labyrinthuscochlearis a écrit : what would be a good way to transform sigmund~'s peaks output so that I get a list with peak

[PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-18 Thread labyrinthuscochlearis
hi all, what would be a good way to transform sigmund~'s peaks output so that I get a list with peak amplitudes but in the ascending order of the corresponding frequencies? thanks, christian ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2012-02-18 à 16:19:00, labyrinthuscochlearis a écrit : what would be a good way to transform sigmund~'s peaks output so that I get a list with peak amplitudes but in the ascending order of the corresponding frequencies? GridFlow's [#grade] gives you a list of item numbers in the order

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-18 Thread Miller Puckette
I believe there's no good way to do this in pd vanilla. THere should be a 'list sort' but I haven't figured out what would be the best design. (and there's probably already a list sort in Pd extended :) cheers Miller On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 04:19:58PM +0100, labyrinthuscochlearis wrote: hi all,

Re: [PD] sigmund list sort

2012-02-18 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
Le 2012-02-18 à 09:58:00, Miller Puckette a écrit : I believe there's no good way to do this in pd vanilla. THere should be a 'list sort' but I haven't figured out what would be the best design. (and there's probably already a list sort in Pd extended :) the [list-sort] abstraction uses a

[PD] Sigmund~ or Bonk~ question: discerning input between two sounds

2011-11-08 Thread Sebastian Valenzuela
Hi everyone, I'll be beat-boxing (with my voice) TWO sounds into my computer microphone: a Kick drum sound and a Hi-Hat sound. I would like to use some sort of spectral analysis object to send bangs when it recognizes them. I ran these two sounds through a spectral analyser and found that the

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ or Bonk~ question: discerning input between two sounds

2011-11-08 Thread Jaime Oliver
Check out timbreID by William Brent. Best, J On Nov 8, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Sebastian Valenzuela svalenzuelamu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'll be beat-boxing (with my voice) TWO sounds into my computer microphone: a Kick drum sound and a Hi-Hat sound. I would like to use some sort

Re: [PD] sigmund~

2011-09-30 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi, On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 06:35:51PM -0700, Benoît Fortier wrote: I'm using the sigmund~ object to get amplitude and pitch information for the loudest peaks of a signal (see the sinusoid-tracking help patch, which can be found in the sigmund~ help patch). Out of that information, I want to

[PD] sigmund~

2011-09-29 Thread Benoît Fortier
Hello all, I'm using the sigmund~ object to get amplitude and pitch information for the loudest peaks of a signal (see the sinusoid-tracking help patch, which can be found in the sigmund~ help patch). Out of that information, I want to create, let's say, 5 midi notes corresponding to the 5

Re: [PD] sigmund~

2011-09-29 Thread michael noble
For the second part of your question I guess Miller's book would be a good place to start, given that it also provides examples in pd. http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques/latest/book-html/ For a more advanced source, though not an online resource, the Musimathics books look thorough and come

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ and tracks.

2011-02-18 Thread J bz
Good stuff, ok will do. Thanks again, Julian On 17 February 2011 19:19, William Brent william.br...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, a Windows binary of [pitchEnv~] is up on my site: http://williambrent.conflations.com/pages/research.html#pitchEnv I hadn't put up Windows or the source yet because I

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ and tracks.

2011-02-17 Thread William Brent
Ok, a Windows binary of [pitchEnv~] is up on my site: http://williambrent.conflations.com/pages/research.html#pitchEnv I hadn't put up Windows or the source yet because I was still in the middle of working on it, but I think it's fine so that's all up now. Let me know off list if you have issues

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ and tracks.

2011-02-16 Thread J bz
Thanks guys, that's really helpful - got things a bit straighter. So can I say for clarification (and I noticed it came up on an earlier thread when (of the top of my head) someone was asking why the attack settings didn't work for tracks and they had to use [env~] - vibrato stabletime minpower

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ and tracks.

2011-02-16 Thread J bz
Hey William, Appreciate the involvement... Unfortunately I'm on W7 atm. My main patch uses the MSD lib and after what I thought was a trivial problem with using it in Puredyne (my regular distro), last Nov, MSD is still not working for me. Fortunately I bought a 2nd hand lappy with W7 on it

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ and tracks.

2011-02-15 Thread J bz
Hey William, Ho hum..., Cheers for having a look though. I'm not completely clear about the continuation flags? I can see from the help file that they're there but what do they mean? Perhaps this should be a new thread but why does sigmund have a frequency range of 100,000hz, and what would

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ and tracks.

2011-02-15 Thread William Brent
I'm not completely clear about the continuation flags?  I can see from the help file that they're there but what do they mean? On every analysis period, several track reports are output in a burst. These provide the frequency and amplitude of what [sigmund~] considers the most important

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ and tracks.

2011-02-15 Thread Miller Puckette
Perhaps this should be a new thread but why does sigmund have a frequency range of 100,000hz, and what would be a decent useable range from practical experience? Strange - I never read that part of the help patch carefully. It's even stranger because it actually says the default

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ and tracks.

2011-02-12 Thread William Brent
Hi Julian, I just looked at the patches and I hear what you're talking about now. The erratic changes are because it's really hard to get nice smooth tracks by analyzing this kind of signal. With violin samples I got useable results, but the rougher timbre of your viol has a lot of high

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ and tracks.

2011-02-11 Thread J bz
Hey William, Many thanks for offering to have a look at this for me. I'm currently trying to extricate the offending section out of what has now ballooned up into a very involved patch (certainly for me anyway). In the process of doing this I have realised that I am mistakenly constantly

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ and tracks.

2011-02-10 Thread William Brent
I'm doing a piece with a viola d'amore (7 string viol) Oops, that's not a violin :) I don't know the lowest note on that one offhand... ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ and tracks.

2011-02-10 Thread William Brent
Could you make a simple example patch that demonstrates the rhythmicized/pulsed result that you don't like? Without knowing exactly what's going on in your patch, my first question would be whether or not you're smoothing the frequencies and amplitudes with a [line~] or something else. Maybe

Re: [PD] Sigmund~ and tracks.

2011-02-10 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, William Brent wrote: I'm doing a piece with a viola d'amore (7 string viol) Oops, that's not a violin :) I don't know the lowest note on that one offhand... Is everybody only ever using the default tuning on those things ?

[PD] Sigmund~ and tracks.

2011-02-09 Thread J bz
Hi all, I'm doing a piece with a viola d'amore (7 string viol) where [sigmund~] is analysing the live input and feeding 48 tracks/partials to a bank of 48 [osc~] for resynthesis and a bit of jiggery-pokery, mainly reversing the amplitudes so the quietest partials are the loudest and vice versa.

[PD] sigmund~ constant noise problem

2011-01-09 Thread Shaul Tzemach
hi, I'm using sigmund~ to get sound input from microphone(with adc~), the data is controling the movement of gem objects. But it seems that the sigmund~ respond to silence as well and react in a constant change of the data. Is there a way to control this noise? Thanks, shaul

Re: [PD] sigmund~ constant noise problem

2011-01-09 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Shaul Tzemach wrote: hi, I'm using sigmund~ to get sound input from microphone(with adc~), the data is controling the movement of gem objects. But it seems that the sigmund~ respond to silence as well and react in a constant change of the data. Is there a way to control this noise? Depends on

Re: [PD] sigmund~ constant noise problem

2011-01-09 Thread Pierre Massat
Hi, I always put a [env] to gate the sigmund data ouput. Whenever [env] gets below a certains level (basically that of your noise), you use a [ X] to output a binary number (0 when it goes below X), which then controls a [spigot], which blocks the data flowing from sigmund. The only tricky part

Re: [PD] sigmund~ Vs fiddle~

2010-04-10 Thread Frank Barknecht
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 05:50:22PM -0400, Alexandre Porres wrote: simple basic question: Any special considerations of how they differ? I'm willing to do pitch tracking and also getting lists of partials and frequency in realtime. Check

Re: [PD] [sigmund~] and [fiddle~]

2009-12-08 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Jonathan Wilkes hat gesagt: // Jonathan Wilkes wrote: --- On Mon, 12/7/09, Frank Barknecht f...@footils.org wrote: Jonathan Wilkes hat gesagt: // Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Can [sigmund~] do everything [fiddle~] can do (or do it better)? I leave the first part of the question

Re: [PD] [sigmund~] and [fiddle~]

2009-12-08 Thread ypatios
But under the hood I think it uses a better algorithm. In my experiments it reports pitch faster and more reliable and stable than fiddle~. So if you can use sigmund~ I would recommend it over fiddle~ as a replacement. Back in the LAC 2008 in Cologne, I asked Miller that very question: what

Re: [PD] [sigmund~] and [fiddle~]

2009-12-08 Thread jurgen
I only have little experience, but from what I've seen so far is that pitch detection with sigmund~ is faster than fiddle~. On the other hand I found the level setting 'minpower' not working or at least nor responsive to changes that I tried out. I do not have experimented with the

Re: [PD] [sigmund~] and [fiddle~]

2009-12-07 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Jonathan Wilkes hat gesagt: // Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Can [sigmund~] do everything [fiddle~] can do (or do it better)? I leave the first part of the question as a task to the reader of both help files. About the second part: In my tests, [sigmund~] indeed did it better. Ciao --

Re: [PD] [sigmund~] and [fiddle~]

2009-12-07 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
--- On Mon, 12/7/09, Frank Barknecht f...@footils.org wrote: From: Frank Barknecht f...@footils.org Subject: Re: [PD] [sigmund~] and [fiddle~] To: pd-list@iem.at Date: Monday, December 7, 2009, 10:04 AM Hallo, Jonathan Wilkes hat gesagt: // Jonathan Wilkes wrote: Can [sigmund~] do

[PD] [sigmund~] and [fiddle~]

2009-12-06 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello, Can [sigmund~] do everything [fiddle~] can do (or do it better)? BTW: I'm finding that to use [sigmund~] with tables, the -t flag is unnecessary-- just remove it in the example in the subpatch and you get the same results. Not sure if that's a bug or not, but it makes me wonder:

Re: [PD] sigmund~ env output

2009-03-21 Thread Oded Ben-Tal
Hmm - there shouldn't be any difference between sigmund~'s env output and that of env~. What latform are you on? Perhaps I should check this out. This is on the winXP version. thanks Oded ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and

Re: [PD] sigmund~ env output

2009-03-20 Thread Miller Puckette
Hmm - there shouldn't be any difference between sigmund~'s env output and that of env~. What latform are you on? Perhaps I should check this out. cheers Miller On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:51:44AM -0700, Oded Ben-Tal wrote: should the output of: [sigmund~ env] be the same (or very

[PD] sigmund~ env output

2009-03-19 Thread Oded Ben-Tal
should the output of: [sigmund~ env] be the same (or very similar) to the output of [env~] I think there is a typo in the help file (where env == notes). but I get pretty wild output from sigmund that bears no relation (that I can hear) to the input sound envelope. I'm using pd-extended

Re: [PD] Sigmund and Sort (Was Real-time frequency filtering and analysis) (robbert van hulzen)

2007-04-04 Thread Jaime Oliver
, 03 Apr 2007 11:38:26 +0200 From: robbert van hulzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PD] Sigmund and Sort (Was Real-time frequency filtering and analysis) To: David Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED], pd-list@iem.at pd-list@iem.at Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain

Re: [PD] Sigmund and Sort (Was Real-time frequency filtering and analysis)

2007-04-03 Thread robbert van hulzen
hmmm... maybe i did... what would good old sigmund f himself have to say about this little slip? On 4/2/07 9:50 PM, David Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/2/07, robbert van hulzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alternatively, if you don't want to compile yourself: the 0.40.2 autobuilds on

Re: [PD] Sigmund and Sort (Was Real-time frequency filtering and analysis)

2007-04-02 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
Jared wrote: robbert van hulzen wrote: a dotted line indicates that the object can't be created, i think it gets the status of a comment. you also see it in the pd window: sigmund~ ... couldn't create. [sort] is part of zexy, works for me also in 0.39.2-ext-test7. do other zexy objects get

Re: [PD] Sigmund and Sort (Was Real-time frequency filtering and analysis)

2007-04-02 Thread robbert van hulzen
alternatively, if you don't want to compile yourself: the 0.40.2 autobuilds on puredate.info have recent versions (i assume you want = 0.40.2 because of [sigmund~]). On 4/2/07 12:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for 0.40.2, where would I get that? From

Re: [PD] Sigmund and Sort (Was Real-time frequency filtering and analysis)

2007-04-02 Thread David Powers
On 4/2/07, robbert van hulzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alternatively, if you don't want to compile yourself: the 0.40.2 autobuilds on puredate.info have recent versions (i assume you want = 0.40.2 because of [sigmund~]). Hi, I think you mean: puredata.info NOT pureDATE.info ;-) ~David

Re: [PD] Sigmund and Sort (Was Real-time frequency filtering and analysis)

2007-04-01 Thread Jared
robbert van hulzen wrote: a dotted line indicates that the object can't be created, i think it gets the status of a comment. you also see it in the pd window: sigmund~ ... couldn't create. [sort] is part of zexy, works for me also in 0.39.2-ext-test7. do other zexy objects get created?

[PD] Sigmund and Sort (Was Real-time frequency filtering and analysis)

2007-03-30 Thread Jared
Jaime Oliver wrote: you could also check sigmund~ it will give you a list of frequencies and amplitudes in order of amplitude. J I think this is a result of my lack of experience with PD, but when I create an object and put sigmund~ in it the border stays dotted. The same thing was