hi all,
i'm using plugdata and installing many external libraries from plugdata itself. i checked and the folders seem to be in place, and i manually added the paths in the settings window, but when i try to open some of the help files of the libraries i just installed the externals and abstractions are not loaded and i get tons of error messages. but the files are there. what am i missing??
cheers

thanks, David. I'll check it out!

i managed to open the patch with an old computer that had an old pd install and i think i solved it. i thought "|" was a vertical line symbol because of the font, but it's actually an "l" object, alias for [lister], which i see was part of zexy. replaced it with [list]. i also was able to see that [resample], on the other hand, was an abstraction which uses standard objects.

HOWEVER, i used [list] and re-made that abstraction BUT the patch is still not working.

So I guess my question, rather than trying to revive that old patch, would be: is there any documentation on how to send data to Enttec DMX USB Pro from Pd? i did a quick search in Plugdata's external installer and found nothing labelled "DMX" but there might be libraries i don't know about.

cheers!

@whale-av ok that one seems easy to replace then! thanks!
any idea about the other 2?

Hi all,

For many years I have been using a bunch of Pd patches that i got from a friend to use my Enttec DMX USB Pro box with light fixtures in live setups. I recently got a new Macbook Pro and I installed Plugdata. A bunch of externals seem to be missing from those patches. I managed to track and install some, but these are still missing, which render the patches unusable

• resample
• |
• init

Not even sure what they do in the first place, so it's hard for me to locate which library they are in, if any. Sorry if this is terribly obvious!!!!
Thanks a lot!

ye, i already removed the "-verbose" flag, but it's still printing a ton of errors including (but not limited to)

pd_helios: can't load library

...confusingly enough

thanks. i did that and then i tried something that was in the helios documentation, even though it was supposedly for El Capitan, which is not my OS.

installed homebrew from https://brew.sh/
then on a terminal i ran:

brew install libusb 

and that was it. pd now loads helios. (hooray).

however, i still get thousands of errors printed on the post window upon startup. my startup preferences are obviously wrong. is there a template for a neatly organised startup preferences file i can check out to make sure mine looks as similar as that? or at least, what’s the general idea? i mean if there is a search path to /Applications/Pd-l2ork.app/Contents/Resources/app.nw/extra
do i still need to specify other paths for individual libraries such as:

/Applications/Pd-l2ork.app/Contents/Resources/app.nw/extra/ggee
/Applications/Pd-l2ork.app/Contents/Resources/app.nw/extra/zexy
/Applications/Pd-l2ork.app/Contents/Resources/app.nw/extra/cyclone

and so on?

many many thanks!!!

THANK YOU SO MUCH, @jancsika
will try and report back if i succeed

tried instantiating it as [helios], as [pd_helios] to no avail. unless i should try with other paths as the object class...

/Applications/Pd-l2ork.app/Contents/Resources/app.nw/extra/pd_helios/libusb-1.0.0.dylib:
@rpath/libusb-1.0.0.dylib