HOT!

Congratulations! I’m excited to listen later!

@kyro This is incredibly helpful. Thank you!

Thank you.

The only reason is that I'm trying to avoid a tangle of wires in order to keep my head straight! I saw it worked at message rate and was wondering if I was missing something.

I'd like to join a large number of oscillator outputs into a single bus with [join] and then disaggregate them at the other end. Is there an object that sends each item in an intput list to a separate output?

I’m looking to do some Fourier analysis, finding the amplitude of an arbitrary, relatively small number of dominant frequencies and phases. My intention is then to reassemble the sounds using different waveforms to find interesting artifacts.

I guess it’s possible that someone has already built such a patch, and I’d love to see it. But I’m having a hard time understanding how to use the FFT objects in general, and I’d love some help building the first, analytical phase of this project.

@gn Fantastic. I’m going to have to mess with this patch.

Thanks! Looking at it, I understand it far better than the description. I might need this at some point!

@seb-harmonik.ar Irrespective of whether it's more efficient in terms of processor overhead or whatever, the important thing is that it's more efficient conceptually for a large number of beginners. And, unlike, say, Scratch, it's really worth becoming an expert in it. There's a LOT you can do, and for certain creative directions, it's far closer to optimal.

I mean, maybe you’d have gotten two people into SuperCollider and the other six would have abandoned the entire avenue of inquiry.

Have you shared the patch you built? It’s not something I understand, but I’m curious to see your yarn ball.

@MikeMorenoDSP

I'm now curious about what software you could use to build this macro keyboard, let me know

I've built keyboards in the past with an Arduino Pro Micro, a multiplexed array of switches, and Arduino code.

Next time I'll probably just do a diode array instead of the multiplexers. I don't much like C so I might also take a shot at doing it with a Raspberry Pi Pico and CircuitPython because I dislike Python less than C and I suspect it's a better introductory language for my students.

If it's at all possible to do it with Pd I will, though. I see toolsets that compile it for certain microcontrollers (Teensy, Daisy) but I don't know how broadly true that is, and a $4 microcontroller is far more valuable to me than a $30 one. Because if you screw up a $4 microcontroller you have an $8 microcontroller budget on the project, but if you screw up the $30 one you have a $60 microcontroller budget and probably have to wait to get it because you didn't get a pile of them in tape packaging to use with kids who are just learning to solder.