Hello lovely Community!
I am PD newbie and this is my first topic here!
So, I ask mercy in advance for my stupid questions
Prologue:
I am working with inertial sensors(Xsens, more precisely) and I'd like to convert in real time in sound the movement acquired by the sensors. As first step, I am doing some trial in offline, so I saved the processed data in a txt file.
Now the question:
How I can read the data from a txt file? I tried the example that I found in this tutorial
Tutorial link
Example Link
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But I think that is a good solution if the txt file is not so big or have only few data...
I tried to follow also the instruction reported here:
http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/10039/how-do-i-produce-audio-using-text-files/2
But, again, I don't understand very well how to do...
Someone could help me or give me some more suggestions?

Thanks in advance

P.s. Sorry, if I use the same thread for another question...Is it possible to use pure data for converting in real time data acquired by inertial sensors?
Thanks again

Anna

what kind of sound do you want to create from that data? Also, why store the data in a text file and not an array? The latter should be faster.

@AnnaDM Hello Anna.......
This will read from a text file which has frequency information as the second value of each line and the "index" as the first value............. and then uses an oscillator to play the notes at the desired speed. It might give you some clues. It is maybe a little complex if you are starting out. The "problem" is that you can do anything you wish in Pd..... if you can work out how!
read_frequency.zip
So....... what does your text file look like? (the sensor information received)
....... do you want to play "generated" notes or pitched noise?
........ or do you want to play samples?
using your sensors to give the control......
David.

@alexandros Hello!
In theory, I would like to create a musical scale, where each note correspond to determinate values of my features(such as velocity, jerk or others, I am still working on it...And I need pure data for doing some trials and understand which features using).
I acquired data with the Xsens acquisition software and I processed them with MatLab. So, right now, my data are saved in a .mat file, but it's easy to convert in a txt file. Since, I don't know very well Pure Data, I thought the txt file would be the best solution for letting to pure data to read the data!
But, If I am wrong, it's good to know

@whale-av
Thanks for the file, I will look soon!
As I told above, I chose to use the txt file because I supposed to be the best solution for transferring the data from matLab to PD, so also the txt creation it will depend by how I can transfer data....

I admit that I am in the prototype phase of my project, and I am doing a lot of trials
I am looking for tutorials or tips about the taking data from sensors and converting them in music, but I did not find some much stuff!

Thanks a lot for the help!

Anna

@AnnaDM if you have a text file you can load it in an array by doing the following:

[read /path/to/text/file.txt(
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[s array_name]

I think it's easier if you collect your data (taken that it's numbers) in an array and use it from there.