Has anyone gotten the ix library to work in Pd-extended? I see all these curious teaser filenames like kbd-demo.pd and spectrum-demo.pd but when I open them i get the red-dashed boxes of disappointment.

Looking around the help browser, I noticed examples/ix and filenames that seem to suggest visual widgets (kbd-demo, grid-demo, etc.). None of these work for me (OSX 10.5, PD-ex 0.41.4.

What are these patches?

hdez

I've been teaching a course in Interactivity with Sound and Music and have made (and am still making) a series of tutorials on Pd (26 so far, more to come):

These may be helpful for those new to Pd or needing some sort of starting point. As an endnote, If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area and you use Pd (or just do neat things with multimedia), look me up.

hdez

Anyone using Phidgets on OSX? I've not tried [hid] yet, but I must say I'm a bit miffed as they publish a Max/MSP library with externals (.mxo) but not a PD library with externals. Any easy way to convert a max external to PD?

I know I can use Font Bomb in PD to change the size of the font that is rendered in the canvas. anyone know of a way to make the change as a permanent preference? Using pd-extended on OSX.5.

hdez

This seems easy but I'm stumped or missing the obvious. How do you play longer soundfiles in PD using [soundfiler]? I see -maxsize argument but am unsure as to the syntax (with or without the <>) Here's my message box feeding into [soundfiler]

[read -resize birds_in_forest.wav birds01;
pd dsp 1;(
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[soundfiler]

(though it's obvious, there's an array called birds01)

The file in questions, birds_in_forest.wav, is 5 min long but I only get about 1:30 of it (or maybe 2:00, but I know it isn't the whole thing).

thanks as always,

hdez

Anyone out there have done (or is doing) work with traditional barcodes, magstripe readers or QR codes? I don't have a USB barcode scanner or magstripe reader but I imagine I can access data via [hid].

hdez

I was thinking the following expr would output a bang, but apparently not:

[expr if($f1 % 4 == 0, 1, 0);]

Instead, I get 1 (true) or 0 (false) (I assumed the 1 would equal a bang). This seems so simple that I must be overlooking something. What is it?! My solution so far is:

[expr if($f1 % 4 == 0, 1, 0);]
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[sel 1] (to create a bang)

Thanks,

hdez

So I,ve got a simple list comprised of three values, ID X and Y (all floats). I'm comparing distance between many ID's to one ID using [expr] but it requires unpacking all of the lists and it becomes just gigantic (tons of inlets and outlets on [expr]. What i'd like to do is access each inlet and it's list components using dot or array syntax like so:

$f1[1] + $f5[2] or $f1.1 + $f5.2

so in the above, add the 2nd item of the first inlet with the third item of the 5th inlet (remembering 0 is the first item in the list). BTW, I know this isn't a distance formula.

Any ideas?

Hdez

right now, I use multiple message boxes with a single bang and [makenote] to accomplish to make chords. surely there is a more efficient way to do this. I've tried lists but no go.

thx for any help,

hdez