Hi its me again with more noobish questions, im reading the johannes kreidler book and im in the granular synthesis chapter.
Im a little stuck because the book mentions a few times a hanning window but i dont see anywhere in the book how to build one, im guessing its pretty easy or the author assumes you already know how to do this, maybe i missed that page... i see its just an array but i have no idea how to approach this but to draw it manually...yeah...i know...so could anyone tell me pls?

thanks in advance

Hi, its been a while since ive been here.
Im trying to send random floats to an array on the y axis between -1 and 1, my idea for this is to use waveshaping and i want the waveform to be changing constantly while i change other parameters.
Ive used [randomF] but it only goes from 0 to 1... is there a way to make it count between -1 and 1? is there another object that does what i want? id apreciatte your help very much.

Hi everyone

Im trying to build "complex" waveforms (squarewaves, triangle and sawtooth) using only [osc~],(im obviously avoiding trigonometry here...), i already have the relationship between frequencies for each waveform but id like to know the amplitude difference between each partial because im not getting the shapes when i look at them in an array.

if anyone can give me a table or a simple arithmetic explanation would be great.
Ill be looking for a math teacher as soon as i can afford one, i promise...

Thanks in advance.

hello

im trying to connect Pd to Ableton so i can modulate different parameters in the midi instruments in Live without using a control surface (since i dont have one).

so far i can only send midi note on messages through IAC Driver but i cant modulate, for example, the envelopes or the time knob in the Operator.
I tried to look for some sort of midi implementation chart like in Reason but didnt find it anywhere in the manual.
I also tried using [ctlout] but couldnt make it work, so now i dont know what to do.

Im using Pd extended on a mac OSX 10.5.8 , ableton live 8.1.5

Thanks in advance and sorry if im making too much questions recently, im using pd a lot these days.

here is my first attempt to make something useful and musical in PD.
Been working on it for about 2 weeks or so... i wanted to add more features but i still need to learn more and for now i think it does a good job.
Its a sequencer based on FM synthesis, nothing fancy here except maybe for the random frequency on the carrier and modulator each step. I tried to do it with a simple gui but failed miserably so youll have to connect and disconnect to enable and disable that feature.

Also, you have to input the values before you start the patch otherwise youll get noise or the patch just wont work (didnt want to use loadbang because i couldnt find a way to hide it)

Id apreciatte if you leave some comments, ideas, if you want to improve the patch id like to see what youve done with it.
Please dont be mean or rude ive been only using pd a few months.
Thanks to Dr. Hernandez for his video tutorials on youtube i couldnt have made this without them.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/fm_ticker.pd

here is my first attempt to make something useful and musical in PD.
Been working on it for about 2 weeks or so... i wanted to add more features but i still need to learn more and for now i think it does a good job.
Its a sequencer based on FM synthesis, nothing fancy here except maybe for the random frequency on the carrier and modulator each step. I tried to do it with a simple gui but failed miserably so youll have to connect and disconnect to enable and disable that feature.

Also, you have to input the values before you start the patch otherwise youll get noise or the patch just wont work (didnt want to use loadbang because i couldnt find a way to hide it)

Id apreciatte if you leave some comments, ideas, if you want to improve the patch id like to see what youve done with it.
Please dont be mean or rude ive been only using pd a few months.
Thanks to Dr. Hernandez for his video tutorials on youtube i couldnt have made this without them.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/fm_ticker.pd

im reading charles dodge computer music book and ive come across a mathematical expression to calculate the basic equal tempered division
the book says

"(i is equal to the interval I raised to the 1/N power). For the 12-tone equal tempered system, the basic division of the octave is the semitone (I = 2), and so i is equal to 2 raised to the 1/12 power. Thus two adjacent tones in this system tuned a semitone apart have a frequency ratio of 1:2 raised to the 1/12 power or 1:1.05946..."

id like to know exactly what is the procedure to get the number 1.05946

ive attached a patch in PD that multiplies this number to a given frequency and the result is a frequency a semitone apart

help please!

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/math_expr_for_semitones.pd

Hi

im currently working on a patch that will eventually become a beat machine based on FM synthesis and im trying to include knobs and faders but they dont seem to select numbers so smoothly, like if i want to select the frequency of the carrier it goes 623,657,690... etc

is there a way to smooth the knobs and sliders so it goes 600,601,602?
i tried to use [line] but that didnt seem to work either... i guess i was using it wrong, any help will be greatly apreciatted.

Hello im reading about arrays and how it can read to .txt files...

im wondering where those txt files are saved when you send a message to an array and what do i have to type in a .txt file to make an array read a .txt file, do i need to create the .txt file with a some syntax or is it just numbers...

i know its a reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally simple borderline stupid question, id just like to know.

Hello everyone!

Ever since i started using pure data and discovered csound, reaktor 5, max msp, arduinos and supercollider, ive been flirting with the idea of pursuing a career in Systems Engineering to develop my own software but im not sure if its the right career choice since i want to program software for audio purposes, so ive considered something like electroacoustic music since all the schools that teach this, teach Csound or Max/Msp but i dont want to deal with the music theory im only interested in the technology-programming-acoustic-audio part so im a bit confused.

ive been doing all the research for myself for acoustics, digital audio and visual programming languages like pure data, max/msp or reaktor and id love to tackle Csound as well but i feel but i feel it will take me forever to fully understand and even more to build what i want.

so my question is

how much would a career in systems engineering would help me to program audio effects or audio software??

i really need help here....