How do I select an item from a list (of filenames). I'd like to give the argument as a line number, i.e. sending it 45 would return the filename on line 45 of the txt file.

I just stumbled upon this in my latest browsing of the interweb and I am pleased to see that it's already installed in my default UbuntuStudio installation. However I can't seem to find any accompanying documentation, even after some pointed google searching. Can anyone give either an example patch, or some context for this object? I'm fairly well versed in csound language and would like to join these two languages together. Thanks.

Hi, so as far as I can research there are a couple different ways of getting a wii to send data to PD in Linux. Most involve external apps sending data to PD in various formats (yuck). The easiest would be this: http://youngmusic.org/wiki/index.php/Wiilib if its makefile actually made all of the required code (but it doesn't). Can anyone familiar with writing externals take a look at this (I'm pretty sure the code is all fine, it just needs makefiles built).

Edit: Well Mike Wozniewski just updated his wiimote external to work with libcwiid 0.6.00 (the current version in the ubuntu hardy repos), so all is looking up (and down, and roll, and pitch, and X, and ....).

So I've gotten the pd xwax library extension installed and working fine, but now I need to understand PD's tabread4~ a bit better - can you guys help?

Essentially I'm looking to complete the following task: record a sample of unknown length (for troubleshooting, so far I've only been using pre-recorded), use my "timecoded" vinyl to control the playback of said sample. I'm okay with there being a start/stop trigger to the recording (if it's needed, I could even live with a pre-detirmined length) rather than having a constant live feed writing to memory (seems wasteful).

The vinylcontroler~ object gives three outlets 1) start/stop decoding bang (signals the object recognition/loss of the timecode signal) 2) pitch of the record (1.0 = 33/rpm) 3) position (increasing from 0 on the outside of the record to 1 on the inside of the record, at a rate which seems to be 0.002 per second at 33rpm)

So I'm wondering what the most elegant way of going about this is, while still achieving a realistic sounding "scratch" manipulation of the soundfile.

Thanks for any suggestions.

If I want to load a random soundfile (mp3 or ogg) from a given folder what's the easiest way of doing this? Are there wildcards that can be used in the filename path, or will I need to catalog the contents of the folder into a list or array and select a random element from that?

Also, on a related note, if I have Lame codecs installed in UbuntuStudio will PD be able to read mp3 files?

Thanks Maelstorm, I couldn't find that anywhere in my CSound install when I looked. That explains a lot. It's exactly what I was looking for.

It's in the Ubuntu Hardy repositories as pd-csound.deb; no compiling needed.

I create it and this message comes out on the PD window: csoundapi~ 1.01
A PD csound class using the Csound 5.08.2 API
(c) V Lazzarini, 2005-2007

But there's no associated help file & I'm wondering what the one inlet and three outlets give/take. I assume some previously created CSound code file names, maybe a message with CSound code, as input, sound & midi as output maybe?

bump.

I'd take a look at Per Noergaard's work on melodies derrived from his Infinity Series work. That may turn out to be very useful in the context, and much more pleasing to the ear than the second viennese school/serialist/12-tone stuff.

@AlbertoZ said:

Hi, I looked at fatmoo and this makes me think (for the 10000th time) that
honestly, something we are missing in PD is the possibility of having such
brilliant user interfaces above the patching stuff...

Seeing my classmates working with Max/MSP5 has renewed my thoughts on this subject too. PD is open source, it's possible for a few renegades to implement some brilliant eyecandy, have any such projects been started?

Sorry for the off topic post.

Does anyone know of any open-source frontends/audio synthesis projects for the reactable's fiducal tracking software? I'd like to get one built and it seems silly to re-invent the wheel if there are some floating around.

Well that only utilizes pre-recorded soundfile playback, but it does get things to a more acceptable level that I was at before. Thanks. I'll attempt to mod that patch to my liking.

Ok, so a bit of my newbie is showing: Is the extended version pre-compiled for Ubuntu in the repos? Is that the version that comes installed by default in UbuntuStudio?

The help for PD gives me this version number: 0.40.-2 but dpkg -l puredata gives me 0.40.2-2

If memory serves correct there are some other PD packages in the repos, but apt-cache isn't showing much right now. Where can I find these externals you guys speak of? Are there binaries? If I need to build them, should I build the whole package or just those that I need (any performance/stability issues with the whole thing)?

I don't know about the CDJ idea, there are some soft dj apps around, such as MIXXX, that might be suitable if you hooked up a controller to them.

But on the original topic, there has recently been some headway! The XWAX libraries have been wrapped into a PD external: http://karhumusic.sesser.at/vinylcontrol/vinylcontrol.html

This will allow PD to read Serato and Traktor "timecoded" (yeah I know it's not actually timecode, but they're marked as such - call it auditory timecode) vinyls.

I don't know the answer just yet, but I'm in the process of trying to get my Final Scratch v1.0 to work in my Ubuntu Dapper OS. I was going to try to port the Final Scratch software but if that's unsuccessful the next thought I had was piping the record output through a better soundcard (the given "scratchamp" has REALLY bad soundcard chips), recording the timecode and trying to write something myself in PD. My guess is that getting propper audio emulation of turntablist sounds might take some work but simple playback tracking shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

If you were looking to get a set of vinyl, any music store that carries stanton products should be able to order a couple for you. They are sold separately from the entire software/soundcard/vinyl package.