Hi

I'm still new to Pd so please bear with me... I'm using the timecode abstraction from here http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-3402-timecode-generator to generate some rate of timecode, like a PPQN tick in a sequencer. At the moment I'm doing something like this with a resolution of 96:

[timecode]
|
[sel 0 48 96 192 288 384]
| \ \ \ etc

So the note is triggered on some timecode value. What I'd like to be able to do is reload the select. I'm stuck here. Can it be in a table or some other place? So, I'm basically trying to say: if note_on[ppqn] = true then bang.

Secondly, I'd like to extend that so the bang is a value which represents 0-127 as velocity, e.g

[timecode]
|
[sel 0 48 96...]
|
[100(
|
[ s to-some-drum-synth]

i.e. (I'm a more traditional programmer...)

if notes[ppqn].note_on == true then send note_on[ppqn].velocity

and likewise:

if notes[ppqn].note_off == true then send 0

Is that makes sense... Any help greatly appreciated!

Edit: err sorry the subject head is wrong... - what I also wanted to do was add swing to the timecode abstraction.

Maybe you can use [route] to separate the various notes and then use [spigot] to "open or close" the note.

For the velocity you can user [f] to store the value, when it gets a bang it will send the value it last received on the right inlet.

Hope this helps.

Thanks that [f] and [spigot] helps a lot. Now I just need to add swing to the [timecode]

Here is how I use the timecode, which is definetly not a quick and easy way to build a sequencer in pd. The clock is running, the timecode is sent to "note units":

[r timecode]
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[sel position]
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[pitch velocity duration( <-- note on/off are treated later with [makenote]
|

There is one unit for every note in the sequence. The only way I found to add and update note units (and to allow changes in sequences) is to use dynamic patching.

With dynamic patching you can tell pd to create any objects you need in a given patch, like create a select, connect it to a message and connect the message to a send and so on. For this see help browser/Manuals/pd-msg/

I use data structures (help browser/Pure Data/4.data.structures) to store and display scores and a dynamic script translates the data to series of note units that "listen" to the timecode and "play" on time.

From this point, to add swing and groove you have two options:

• modulate the speed of the timecode, i.e. the tempo: it looked so complicated I didn't even try
• move notes: easy, adding delay to notes according to their position in each step can by done by dynamic patching.

Thanks for the interrest in my abstraction, you use it exactly for its purpose