Hi, it's been a while, here we go:

RELEASE NOTES:

Hi, it's been almost 8 months without an update and I never took this long!!! So there's a lot of new stuff to cover, because it's not like I've been just sleeping around

The reason for the delay is that I'm trying to pair up with the release cycles of PlugData and we're having trouble syncing up. PlugData 0.9.0 came out recently after a delay of 6 months and we couldn't really sync and pair up then... we had no luck in syncing for a new update now, so now I'm just releasing it up cause enough is enough, and hopefully in the next plugdata release we can sync and offer the same version.

As usual, the development pace is always quite busy and I'm just arbitrarily wrapping things up in the middle of adding more and more things that will just have to wait.

First, I had promised support for double precision. I made changes so we can build for it, but it's not really working yet when I uploaded to deken and tested it. So, next time?

And now for the biggest announcement: - I'm finally and officially releasing a new pack as a submodule, which is a set of abstractions inspired by EuroRack Modules, so I'm thinking of VCV like things but into the Pd paradigm. Some similar stuff has been made for Pd over the years, most notably and famously "Automatonism", but I'm really proud of what I'm offering. I'm not trying to pretend Pd is a modular rack and I'm taking advantage of being in Pd. I'm naming this submodule "Modular EuroRacks Dancing Along" (💩 M.E.R.D.A 💩) and I've been working on it for a year and a half now (amongst many other things I do). PlugData has been offering this for a while now, by the way. Not really fully in sync though.

MERDA modules are polyphonic, thanks to multichannel connections introduced in Pd 0.54! There are 20 modules so far and some are quite high level. I'm offering a PLAITS module based on the Mutable Instruments version. I have a 6-Op Phase Modulation module. A "Gendyn" module which is pretty cool. I'm also including an "extra" module that is not really quite a modular thing at all but fits well called "brane", which was a vanilla patch I first wrote like 15 years ago and is a cool granular live sampler and harmonizer. You'll also find the basics, like oscillators, filters, ADSR envelope and stuff I'm still working on. Lastly, a cool thing is that it has a nice presets system that still needs more work but is doing the job so far.

There are ideas and plans to add hundreds more MERDA modules, let's see when and if I can. People can collaborate and help me and create modules that follow the template by the way

Thanks to Tim Schoen, [play.file~] is now a compiled object instead of an abstraction and it supports MP3, FLAC, WAV, AIF, AAC, OGG & OPUS audio file extensions. A new [sfload] object can import these files into arrays (but still needs lots of more work). There are many other player objects in ELSE that can load and play samples but these don't yet support these new formats (hang in there for the next version update).

Tim also worked on new [pdlink] and [pdlink~] objects, which send control and signal data to/from Pd instances, versions and even forks of Pure Data (it's like [send]/[receive] and [send~]/[receive~], all you need is a symbol, no complicated network or OSC configuration!). And yes, it works via UDP between different computers on the same network. And hell yeah, [pdlink~] has multichannel connections support! By the way, you can also communicate to a [pd~] subprocess. This will be part of ELSE and PlugData of course, and will allow easy communication between PlugData and Pd-Vanilla for instance.

The great pd-lib-build system has been replaced for a 'cmake' build process called 'pd.build' by Pierre Guillot. This was supposed to simplify things. Also, the [sfont~] object was a nightmare to build and with several dependencies that was simply hell to manage, now we have a new and much simpler system and NO DEPENDENCIES AT ALL!!! Some very rare file formats with obscure and seldom sound file extensions may not work though... (and I don't care, most and the 'sane' ones will work). The object now also dumps all preset information with a new message and backwards compatibility broke a bit

I'm now back to offering a modified version of [pdlua] as part of ELSE, which has recently seen major upgrades by Tim to support graphics and signals! This is currently needed in ELSE to provide a new version of [circle] that needed to be rewritten in lua so it'd look the same in PlugData. Ideally I'd hope I could only offer compiled GUI objects, but... things are not ideal

The lua loader works by just loading the ELSE library, no need for anything "else". I'm not providing the actual [pdlua] and [pdluax] objects as they are not necessary, and this is basically the only modification. Since PlugData provides support for externals in lua, if you load ELSE you can make use of stuff made for PlugData with lua without the need to install [pdlua] in Pd-Vanilla.

For next, we're working on a [lua] object that will allow inline scripting and will also work for audio signals (again, wait for the next version)! Also for the next version, I'm saving Ben Wesch's nice 3d oscilloscope made in lua (it'll be called [scope3d~]). There's a lot going on with the lua development, which is very exciting.

As for more actual new objects I'm including, we have [vcf2~] and [damp.osc~]. The first is a complex one pole resonant filter that provides a damping oscillation for a ringing time you can set, the next is an oscillator based on it. There's also the new [velvet~] object, a cool and multichannel velvet noise generator that you can also adjust to morph into white noise.

I wasn't able to add multichannel capabilities to many existing objects in ELSE in this one, just a couple of them ([cosine~] and [pimp~]). Total number of objects that are multichannel aware now are: 92! This is almost a third of the number of audio objects in ELSE. I think that a bit over half might be a reasonably desired target. More multichannel support for existing objects to come in the next releases.

Total number of objects in the ELSE library is now 551!

As for the Live Electronics tutorial, as usual, there are new examples for new objects, and I made a good revision of the advanced filter section, where I added many examples to better explain how [slop~] works, with equivalent [fexpr~] implementations.

Total number of examples in the Live Electronics Tutorial is now 528!

There are more details of course, and breaking changes as usual, but these are the highlights! For a full changelog, check https://github.com/porres/pd-else/releases/tag/v.1.0-rc12 (or below at this post).

As mentioned, unfortunately, ELSE RC12 is not yet fully merged, paired up and 100% synced in PlugData. PlugData is now at version 0.9.1, reaching the 1.0 version soon. Since ELSE is currently so tightly synced to the development of PlugData, the idea is to finally offer a final 1.0 version of ELSE when PlugData 1.0 is out. Hence, it's getting closer than ever Hopefully we will have a 100% synced ELSE/PlugData release when 0.9.2 is out (with a RC 13 maybe?).

Please support me on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/porres
You can follow me on instagram as well if you like... I'm always posting Pd development stuff over there https://www.instagram.com/alexandre.torres.porres/

cheers

ps. Binaries for mac/linux/windows are available via deken. I needed help for raspberry pi

CHANGELOG:

LIBRARY:

Breaking changes:

• [oscope~] renamed to [scope~]
• [plaits~] changed inlet order of modulation inputs and some method/flags name. If a MIDI pitch of 0 or less input is given, it becomes a '0hz'.
• [gbman~] changed signal output range, it is now filtered to remove DC and rescaled to a sane -1 to 1 audio range.
• [dust~] and [dust2~] go now up to the sample rate and become white noise (removed restriction that forced actual impulses, that is, no conscutive non zero values)
• [cmul~] object removed (this was only used in the old conv~ abstraction to try and reduce a bit the terrible CPU load)
• [findfile] object removed (use vanilla's [file which] now that it has been updated in Pd 0.55-0)
• [voices] swapped retrig modes 0 and 1, 'voices' renamed to 'n', now it always changes voice number by default as in [poly] (this was already happening unintentionally as a bug when one voice was already taken). The 'split' mode was removed (just use [route], will you?)
• [voices~] was also affected by changes in [voices] of course, such as 'voices' message being renamed to 'n'.
• [sr~]/[nyquist] changed output loading time to 'init' bang
• [sample~] object was significantly redesigned and lots of stuff changed, new messages and flags, added support for 64-bit audio files (Pd 0.55 in double precision and ELSE compiled for 64 bits is required for this). Info outlet now also outputs values for lenght in ms and bit depth.
• [sfont~] uses now a simpler build system and this might not load very very rare and unusual sound formats.

Enhancements/fixes/other changes:

• builds for double precision is now supposedly supported, by the way, the build system was changed from pd-lib-builder to pd.build by Pierre Guillot.
• [play.file~] is now a compiled object instead of an abstraction thanks to Tim Schoen, and it supports MP3, FLAC, WAV, AIF, AAC, OGG & OPUS file extensions.
• Support for double precision compilation was improved and should be working for all objects (not yet providing binaries and fully tested yet by the way).
• The ELSE binary now loads a modified version of [pdlua], but no [pdlua] and [pdluax] objects are provided.
• added signal to 2nd inlet of [rm~].
• fixed 'glide' message for [mono~].
• fixed [voices] consistency check bug in rightmost outlet and other minor bugs, added flags for 'n', 'steal' and offset.
• [gain~] and [gain2~] changed learn/forget shortcut
• [knob] fixed sending messages to 'empty' when it shouldn't, ignore nan/inf, prevent a tcl/tk error if lower and upper values are the same; added "learn/forget" messages and shortcut for a midi learn mechanism.
• [mpe.in] now outputs port number and you can select which port to listen to.
• Other MIDI in objects now deal with port number encoded to channel as native Pd objects. Objects affected are [midi.learn], [midi.in], [note.in], [ctl.in], [bend.in], [pgm.in], [touch.in] and [ptouch.in].
• [pi]/[e] now takes a value name argument.
• [sr~]/[nyquist~] take clicks now and a value name argument.
• fixed phase modulation issues with [impulse~] and [pimp~].
• [cosine~] fixed sync input.
• added multichannel features to [cosine~] and [pimp~].
• [plaits~] added a new 'transp' message and a functionality to allow MIDI input to supersede signal connections (needed for the 'merda' version [see below]), fixed MIDI velocity.
• [pluck~] added a new functionality to allow MIDI input to supersede signal connections (needed for the 'merda' version [see below]).
• 26 new objects, [velvet~], [vcf2~], [damp.osc~], [sfload], [pdlink] and [pdlink~], plus abstractions from a newly included submodule called "Modular Euro Racks Dancing Along" (M.E.R.D.A)! Warning, this is all just very very experimental still, the object are: [adsr.m~], [brane.m~], [chorus.m~], [delay.m~], [drive.m~], [flanger.m~], [gendyn.m~], [lfo.m~], [phaser.m~], [plaits.m~], [plate.rev.m~], [pluck.m~], [pm6.m~], [presets.m], [rm.m~], [seq8.m~], [sig.m~], [vca.m~], [vcf.m~] and [vco.m~] (6 of these are multichannel aware).

Objects count: total of 551 (307 signal objects [92 of which are MC aware] and 244 control objects)!

• 311 coded objects (203 signal objects / 108 control objects
• 240 abstractions (104 signal objects / 136 control objects)

TUTORIAL:

• New examples and revisions to add the new objects, features and breaking changes in ELSE.
• Added a couple of examples for network communication via FUDI and [pdlink]/[pdlink~]
• Section 36-Filters(Advanced) revised, added more examples and details on how [slop~] works.
• Total number of examples is now 528!

Hi,

I wanted to try Ofelia, so in Pd 0.54.0 on Ubuntu 22.04 I installed Ofelia v4.0.0 (via "Find externals").
In "Preferences" I entered the correct paths.
When I open a patch that uses Ofelia, I get these errors:

/home/a/Pd/externals/ofelia/ofelia.pd_linux:libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/a/Pd/externals/ofelia/ofelia.pd_linux:libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ofelia d -k $0-main
... couldn't create
#A: no such object 
/home/a/Pd/externals/ofelia/ofelia.pd_linux:libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/a/Pd/externals/ofelia/ofelia.pd_linux:libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ofelia d -c11 -k $0-setMatrix2
... couldn't create
array: no method for '__set'
/home/a/Pd/externals/ofelia/ofelia.pd_linux:libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/a/Pd/externals/ofelia/ofelia.pd_linux:libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ofelia d -k $0-getCopyArray
... couldn't create
array: no method for '__set'
/home/a/Pd/externals/ofelia/ofelia.pd_linux:libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/a/Pd/externals/ofelia/ofelia.pd_linux:libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ofelia d -c11 -k $0-setMatrix
... couldn't create
array: no method for '__set'
/home/a/Pd/externals/ofelia/ofelia.pd_linux:libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/a/Pd/externals/ofelia/ofelia.pd_linux:libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ofelia d -k $0-getArray
... couldn't create
array: no method for '__set'
/home/a/Pd/externals/ofelia/ofelia.pd_linux:libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/a/Pd/externals/ofelia/ofelia.pd_linux:libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ofelia d -k $0-conway
... couldn't create
array: no method for '__set'
/home/a/Pd/externals/ofelia/ofelia.pd_linux:libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/a/Pd/externals/ofelia/ofelia.pd_linux:libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ofelia d -k $0-lCells
... couldn't create
array: no method for '__set'
/home/a/Pd/externals/ofelia/ofelia.pd_linux:libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/home/a/Pd/externals/ofelia/ofelia.pd_linux:libGLEW.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
ofelia d -k $0-dCells
... couldn't create
array: no method for '__set'

It seems the problem is libglew, maybe it's a version issue.
On my computer, libglew is already installed (via Synaptic):

What can I do?
Do you have a direct link to a version of Ofelia that works on my system?
[Pd 0.54.0 on Ubuntu 22.04]

Thank you,
a.

Hi! This has gotta be the biggest update ever. geez... there's too much stuff, and I just decided to stop arbitrarily cause there's still lots of stuff to do. Ok, here goes the highlights!

This is the 1st multichannel (MC) aware release of ELSE (so it needs Pd 0.54-0 or later)! There are many many many objects were updated to become MC aware: 42 of them to be exact. There are also many many new objects, and many of them are MC capable, 20 out of 33! Som in total I have 62 objects that deal with MC... that's a good start. More to come later!

Note that 4 of these new ones were just me being lazy and creating new mc oscillators with [clone], I might delete them and just make the original objects MC aware... so basically these new MC objects bring actual new functionalities and many are tools to deal with MC in many ways, like splitting, merging, etc...

With 33 new objects, this is the first release to reach and exceed the mark of 500 externals, what a milestone! (This actually scares me). We now have 509 objects and for the first time ever I have reached the number of examples in the Tutorial, which is also 509 now! But I guess eventually the tutorial will grow larger than the number of externals again...

Since the last release, ELSE comes with an object browser plugin, I have improved it and also included a browser for Vanilla objects. I think it's silly to carry these under ELSE and I hope I can bring this to Vanilla's core. see https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/1917

A very exciting new object is [sfz~], which is a SFZ player based on 'SFIZZ'. This is more versatile than other externals out there and pretty pretty cool (thanks alex mitchell for the help)!

I have created a rather questionable object called [synth~] which wraps around [clone] and [voices]/[mono], but I think it will be quite interesting to newbies. It loads synth abstractions in a particular template and makes things a bit more convenient. It also allows you to load different abstraction patches with dynamic patching magic.

[plaits~] has been updated to include new 8 synth engines with the latest firmware. Modular people are happy... (thanks amy for doing this)

One cool new object for MC is [voices~], which is a polyphonic voice manager that outputs the different voices in different channels. If you have MC aware oscillators and stuff this allows you to manage polyphonic patches without the need of [clone] at all. This is kinda like VCV works and it opens the door for me to start designing modular inspired abstractions, something I mentioned before and might come next and soon! So much being done, so much to do... What an exciting year for Pd with the incredibly nice MC feature!

There's lots more stuff and details, but I'l just shut up and link to the full changelog here https://github.com/porres/pd-else/releases/tag/v1.0-rc9

You can get ELSE from deken as well. It's up there for macOS, Windows 64 bits, Linux 64 bits and raspberry pi. Please test and tell me if there's something funny.

Cheers!

Chees.

@KMETE said:

when I try to type a number inside a number box it is not working. The only way for changing the numbers is by clicking the mouse and scrolling. There is no wy to type into number boxes?

OK.

If you create a button or toggle, you might notice that:

• If you are not in edit mode, clicking on the object produces the output.
• If you are in edit mode, clicking on the object selects it but does not trigger output.
• If you are in edit mode, ctrl- clicking on the object produces output.

Number boxes behave the same way. Not in edit mode, you can click and type a number. In edit mode, ctrl-click allows you to type. I just confirmed that this is true in PlugData as well as the vanilla Pd GUI.

(On Mac, cmd- instead of ctrl-.)

In both interfaces, use ctrl-E to toggle between edit and performance modes. In PlugData, the + icon in the toolbar is dimmed when not editing (AFAICS this is the only way to know which mode you're in).

Edit edit... one minor interface goof in PlugData is that: performance mode, clicking a number box turns the arrowhead blue (so you know it's typeable). In edit mode, ctrl-click does not turn it blue but it's still typeable (I tried it, no problem).

hjh

Hey, I'm trying to get purr-data to work on my fresh Manjaro XFCE install, but it does not work. Any help is greatly appreciated!

$ yay purr-data
7 aur/purrdata-faust 0.18-1 (+0 0.00) 
    Run Faust signal processors in Pd, Purr-Data version
6 aur/purrdata-pure 0.26-1 (+0 0.00) 
    Loader plugin for the Pure programming language, Purr-Data version
5 aur/purrdata-lv2plugin-git 25.e00f302-1 (+0 0.00) 
    LV2 plugin host for Pd, Purr-Data version
4 aur/purrdata-mdnsbrowser-git 8.88d2b0c-1 (+0 0.00) 
    Zeroconf service advertising and discovery for Pd, Purr-Data version
3 aur/purrdata-touchosc-git 44.443c793-1 (+0 0.00) 
    A TouchOSC MIDI bridge for Pd, Purr-Data version
2 aur/purr-data-git 2.12.0.r4366.6d94e10b-1 (+2 0.00) 
    Jonathan Wilkes' nw.js variant of Pd-L2Ork (git version)
1 aur/purr-data 2.12.0.r4346.aeb24d89-1 (+6 0.03) (Out-of-date: 2021-06-17) 
    Jonathan Wilkes' nw.js variant of Pd-L2Ork (git version)
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==> 2
:: There are 2 providers available for gconf:
:: Repository AUR
    1) gconf 2) gconf-gtk2 

Enter a number (default=1): ==> 
:: Checking for conflicts...
:: Checking for inner conflicts...
[Aur:2]  gconf-3.2.6+11+g07808097-10  purr-data-git-2.12.0.r4366.6d94e10b-1

  2 gconf                                    (Build Files Exist)
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==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> a
:: Deleting (1/1): /home/olav/.cache/yay/gconf
:: (1/2) Downloaded PKGBUILD: gconf
:: (2/2) Downloaded PKGBUILD: purr-data-git
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==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 
:: (1/2) Parsing SRCINFO: gconf
:: (2/2) Parsing SRCINFO: purr-data-git
==> Making package: gconf 3.2.6+11+g07808097-10 (Wed 09 Feb 2022 10:23:23 PM CET)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Cloning gconf git repo...
Cloning into bare repository '/home/olav/.cache/yay/gconf/gconf'...
==> Making package: purr-data-git 2.12.0.r4366.6d94e10b-1 (Wed 09 Feb 2022 10:23:23 PM CET)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Cloning purr-data-git git repo...
Cloning into bare repository '/home/olav/.cache/yay/purr-data-git/purr-data-git'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 21531, done.
remote: Enumerating objects: 63399, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (1852/1852), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (641/641), done.
remote: Total 21531 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 21531
Receiving objects: 100% (21531/21531), 10.88 MiB | 9.46 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (17681/17681), done.1 KiB | 704.00 KiB/s
  -> Found 01_xml-gettext-domain.patch388.01 KiB | 704.00 KiB/s
  -> Found gconf-reload.patch
  -> Found gconf-merge-schema
  -> Found gconfpkg
  -> Found gconf-install.hook
  -> Found gconf-remove.hook
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    gconf ... Skipped
    01_xml-gettext-domain.patch ... Passed
    gconf-reload.patch ... Passed
    gconf-merge-schema ... Passed
    gconfpkg ... Passed
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remote: Total 63399 (delta 1106), reused 1786 (delta 1052), pack-reused 61547
Receiving objects: 100% (63399/63399), 177.19 MiB | 5.71 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (33721/33721), done.
  -> Downloading nwjs-sdk-v0.24.4-linux-x64.tar.gz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
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==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    purr-data-git ... Skipped
==> Validating source_x86_64 files with md5sums...
    nwjs-sdk-v0.24.4-linux-x64.tar.gz ... Passed
==> Making package: gconf 3.2.6+11+g07808097-10 (Wed 09 Feb 2022 10:24:19 PM CET)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Updating gconf git repo...
Fetching origin
  -> Found 01_xml-gettext-domain.patch
  -> Found gconf-reload.patch
  -> Found gconf-merge-schema
  -> Found gconfpkg
  -> Found gconf-install.hook
  -> Found gconf-remove.hook
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...
    gconf ... Skipped
    01_xml-gettext-domain.patch ... Passed
    gconf-reload.patch ... Passed
    gconf-merge-schema ... Passed
    gconfpkg ... Passed
    gconf-install.hook ... Passed
    gconf-remove.hook ... Passed
==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory...
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Creating working copy of gconf git repo...
Cloning into 'gconf'...
done.
Switched to a new branch 'makepkg'
==> Starting prepare()...
/home/olav/.cache/yay/gconf/PKGBUILD: line 30: patch: command not found
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: gconf

And

yay purr-data
7 aur/purrdata-faust 0.18-1 (+0 0.00) 
    Run Faust signal processors in Pd, Purr-Data version
6 aur/purrdata-pure 0.26-1 (+0 0.00) 
    Loader plugin for the Pure programming language, Purr-Data version
5 aur/purrdata-lv2plugin-git 25.e00f302-1 (+0 0.00) 
    LV2 plugin host for Pd, Purr-Data version
4 aur/purrdata-mdnsbrowser-git 8.88d2b0c-1 (+0 0.00) 
    Zeroconf service advertising and discovery for Pd, Purr-Data version
3 aur/purrdata-touchosc-git 44.443c793-1 (+0 0.00) 
    A TouchOSC MIDI bridge for Pd, Purr-Data version
2 aur/purr-data-git 2.12.0.r4366.6d94e10b-1 (+2 0.00) 
    Jonathan Wilkes' nw.js variant of Pd-L2Ork (git version)
1 aur/purr-data 2.12.0.r4346.aeb24d89-1 (+6 0.03) (Out-of-date: 2021-06-17) 
    Jonathan Wilkes' nw.js variant of Pd-L2Ork (git version)
==> Packages to install (eg: 1 2 3, 1-3 or ^4)
==> 2
:: There are 2 providers available for gconf:
:: Repository AUR
    1) gconf 2) gconf-gtk2 

Enter a number (default=1): ==> 
:: Checking for conflicts...
:: Checking for inner conflicts...
[Aur:2]  gconf-3.2.6+11+g07808097-10  purr-data-git-2.12.0.r4366.6d94e10b-1

  2 gconf                                    (Build Files Exist)
  1 purr-data-git                           
==> Packages to cleanBuild?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> a
:: Deleting (1/1): /home/olav/.cache/yay/gconf
:: (1/2) Downloaded PKGBUILD: gconf
:: (2/2) Downloaded PKGBUILD: purr-data-git
  2 gconf                                    (Build Files Exist)
  1 purr-data-git                            (Build Files Exist)
==> Diffs to show?
==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4)
==> 
:: (1/2) Parsing SRCINFO: gconf
:: (2/2) Parsing SRCINFO: purr-data-git
==> Making package: gconf 3.2.6+11+g07808097-10 (Wed 09 Feb 2022 10:23:23 PM CET)
==> Retrieving sources...
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7 aur/purrdata-faust 0.18-1 (+0 0.00) 
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@ddw_music said:

I still think Tcl/Tk has failed to keep up with modern standards, and I have my doubts that it will ever catch up. So, I still think that Pd hampers its own progress by hitching itself to the Tcl/Tk wagon.

I think most people agree with you, myself included. Tk is clunky but it's in the current code base and has been kept so far since it works, although admittedly barely in many cases.

The last couple of posts here are encouraging.

I know development is slow, but it's really working against inertia. Momentum has been growing the last years and that's mostly due to more effective collaboration to tackle some of these issues. I think finding a sustainable approach to the GUI is one of the largest ones, so is taking a while to grow.

IMO a fair comparison is: normal screen size in Linux vs normal screen size in Mac.

Nope. See above.

Developer vs user perspective. The user sees clean diagonals on Mac, and jagged diagonals on Linux or Windows, and I think it's perfectly legitimate for the user not really to care that it's the OS rather than the drawing engine that makes it so in Mac. (It's correct, of course, to point out that the diagonals on a retina display will look smoother than antialiased diagonals without retina.)

Yup, you are totally right. I didn't mean to imply the Linux screenshot looked good since "that's the way it is" just more that it looks so much better on macOS since the screenshot is likely double the resolution as well.

I started using Pd on Windows circa 2006 then jumped to Linux for many years, then to macOS. My feeling was that Pd worked best on Linux but a lot of that has caught up as the underlying systems have developed but in some ways the Linux desktop has not (for many reasons, good and bad).

1. Your point (c) already happened... you can use Purr Data (or the new Pd-L2ork etc). The GUI is implemented in Node/Electron/JS (I'm not sure of the details). Is it tracking Pd vanilla releases?... well that's a different issue.

I did try Purr Data, but abandoned it because (at the time, two years ago), Purr Data on Mac didn't support Gem and there were no concrete plans to address that. This might have changed in the last couple of years (has it? -- I've looked at https://agraef.github.io/purr-data/ and https://github.com/agraef/purr-data but it seems not quite straightforward to determine whether Gem+Mac has been added or not).

That's a result of many of the forks adopting the "kitchen sink" monolithic distribution model inherited from Pd-extended. The user gets the environment and many external libraries all together in one download, but the developers have to integrate changes from upstream themselves and build for the various platforms. It's less overheard for the user but more for the developers, which is why integrating a frankly large and complicated external like GEM is harder.

I'm happy to download the deken GEM package because I know the IEM people have done all the craziness to build it (it's a small nightmare of autotools/makefiles due to the amount of plugins and configuration options). I am also very happy to not have to build it and provide it to other users but in exchange we ask people to do that extra step and use deken. I recognize that the whole usage of [declare] is still not as easy or straightforward for many beginners. There are some thoughts of improving it and feedback for people in the teaching environment has also pushed certain solutions (ie. Pd Documents folder, etc).

Tracking vanilla releases was the other issue. A couple of years ago, [soundfiler] in Purr Data was older and didn't provide the full set of sound file stats. That issue had been logged and I'm sure it's been updated since then. "Tracking" seemed to be manual, case-by-case.

By "tracking" I am referring to a fork following the new developments in Pd-vanilla and integrating the changes. This becomes harder if/when the forks deviate with internal changes to the source code, so merging some changes then has to be done "by hand" which slows things down and is one reason why a fork may release a new version but be perhaps 1 or two versions behind Pd vanilla's internal objects, ie. new [soundfiler] right outlet, [clone] object, new [file] object, etc.

2. As for updating Tk, it's probably not likely to happen as advanced graphics are not their focus. I could be wrong about this.

I agree that updating the GUI itself is the better solution for the long run. I also agree that it's a big undertaking when the current implementation is essentially still working fine after over 20 years...

Well, I mean, OK up to a point. There are things like the Tcl/Tk open/save file dialog, which is truly abhorrent in Linux.

Hah yeah, I totally understand. My first contribution to Pd(-extended) was to find out how to disable showing hidden files in the open/save panels on Linux. You would open a dialog, it defaulted to $HOME, then you had to wade through 100 dot folders. Terrible! Who did this and why? Well it wasn't on purpose, it was just the default setting for panels on Tk, and I added a little but of Tcl to turn it off and show a "Show hidden files/folders" button below.

OTOH I have a colleague at work who's internal toolkit still uses Motif. Why? Well it still works and he's the only user so he's ok with it. I'd say that Tk also still uses Motif... but there are many users and they have much different expectations. ;P

Some puzzling decisions here and there -- for example, when you use the mouse to drag an object to another location, why does it then switch to edit the text in the object box? To me, this is a disruptive workflow -- you're moving an object, not editing the object, but suddenly (without warning) you're forcibly switched into editing the object, and it takes a clumsy action of clicking outside the object and dragging the mouse into the object to get back to positioning mode. I feel so strongly about it that I even put in a PR to change that behavior (https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/922), which has been open for a year and a half without being either merged or rejected (only argued against initially, and then stalled).

Ah yes, I forgot about this one. It wasn't rejected, just came at a time when there were lots of other things shouting much louder, ie. if this isn't fixed Pd is broken on $PLATFORM. I would say that, personally, your initial posting style turned me off but I recognize where the frustration came from. I also appreciate making the point AND providing a solution, so the ball is in our court for sure. I will take a look at this soon and try it out.

"Still working for 20 years" but you could also say, still clunky for 20 years, with inertia when somebody does actually try to fix something.

Another approach would be to try to bring improvements to Tcl/Tk itself but the dev community is a little opaque, more so than Pd. However I admit to not having put a ton of time into it, other than flagging our custom patches to the TK macOS guy on Github.

WRT to the rest, any architectural improvements (e.g. drawing abstractions so that the Pd core isn't so tightly coupled to Tcl/Tk) that make it more feasible to move forward are great, would love to see it.

As would I... we are preparing for a major exhibition opening in December, but I will have some time off after and I may take a stab at a technical demo for this (among other things) then pull in some other perspectives / testers. It has been an itch I have wanted to scratch since, at least Pd Con 2016 in NYC.

@bocanegra, addperc works nicely (and sounds great) in Pd-l2ork but not in vanilla. In the latter I get the following errors:

0-sqt: no such object
0-range: no such object
0-vcof: no such object
0-vcor: no such object
0-vcoa: no such object
0-mixg: no such object
0-mixr: no such object
0-mixa: no such object
0-shape: no such object
0-bpf: no such object
0-bpq: no such object
0-hpf: no such object
0-lpf: no such object
0-ega: no such object
0-egr: no such object

hello!

the video is amazing and I can't wait to try the patch, but for some reason it is not opening up in my computer... I'm using Windows 10 on a Dell Inspiron 15, the processor is Intel i5. Couldn't open it on Pd vanilla, Pd-extended or Purr-Data.

I get several lines of an error message saying it can't open objects in funny characters, like this:

error: ¸¯"
: no such object
error: \%
: no such object
error: P
"
: no such object
error: ]%
: no such object
error: È\%
: no such object
error: Ð]%
: no such object
error: "
: no such object
error: ° "
: no such object
error: 0 "
: no such object
error: ^%
: no such object
error: "
: no such object
error: èX&
: no such object
error: "
: no such object
error: Y&
: no such object
error: "
: no such object
error: Àa%
: no such object
error: "
: no such object
(it goes on forever)

I'd appreciate it if somebody knew what could be the problem... anyways, congrats for the work and thanks for sharing!

For a topic on matrix mixers by @lacuna I created a patch with audio paths that included a s~/r~ hop as well as a throw~/catch~ hop, fully expecting each hop to contribute a 1 block delay. To my surprise, there was no delay. It reminded me of another topic where @seb-harmonik.ar had investigated how object creation order affects the tilde object sort order, which in turn determines whether there is a 1 block delay or not. Object creation order even appears to affect the minimum delay you can get with a delay line. So I decided to do a deep dive into a small example to try to understand it.

Here's my test patch: s~r~NoLatency.pd
The s~/r~ hop produces either a 64 sample delay, or none at all, depending on the order that the objects are created. Here's an example that combines both: s~r~DifferingLatencies.pd
That's pretty kooky! On the one hand, it's probably good practice to avoid invisible properties like object creation order to get a particular delay, just as one should avoid using control connection creation order to get a particular execution order and use triggers instead. On the other hand, if you're not considering object creation order, you can't know what delay you will get without measuring it because there's no explicit sort order control. Well...technically there is one and it's described in G05.execution.order, but it defeats the purpose of having a non-local signal connection because it requires a local signal connection. Freeze dried water: just add water.

To reduce the number of cases I had to test, I grouped the objects into 4 subsets and permuted their creation orders:
The order labeled in the diagram has no latency and is one that I just stumbled on, but I wanted to know what part of it is significant, so I tested all 24 permuations. (Methodology note: you can see the object creation order if you open the .pd file in a text editor. The lines that begin with "#X obj" list the objects in the order they were created.)

It appears that any time the phasor group is created before the r~, there is latency. Nothing else matters. Why would that be? To test if it's the whole audio chain feeding s~ that has to be created before, or only certain objects in that group, I took the first permutation with latency and cut/pasted [phasor~ 1] and [*~ 44100] in turn to push the object's creation order to the end. Only pushing [phasor~ 1] creation to the end made the delay go away, so maybe it's because that object is the head of the audio chain?

I also tested a few of these permutations using throw~/catch~ and got the same results. And I looked to see if connection creation order mattered but I couldn't find one that did and gave up after a while because there were too many cases to test.

So here's what I think is going on. Both [r~ next] and [phasor~ 1] are the heads of their respective locally connected audio chains which join at [-~]. Pd has to decide which chain to process first, and I assume that it has to choose the [phasor~ 1] chain in order for the data buffered by [s~ next] to be immediately available to [r~ next]. But why it should choose the [phasor~ 1] chain to go first if it's head is created later seems arbitrary to me. Can anyone confirm these observations and conjectures? Is this behavior documented anywhere? Can I count on this behavior moving forward? If so, what does good coding practice look like, when we want the delay and also when we don't?

Just Another (Drum) Sequencer...SortOf, codename: Virgo

virgo.zip

REQUIRES: zexy, moonlib, tof (as of Pd 0.50.2, all of which are in deken) and hcs (which comes by default with Pd 0.50.2 and is in deken (for extended))

Special Features

• Unique playhead per row; each with their own metro (beat)
• Up to 8 Volume states-per-beat (by clicking multiple times on the bang; where an rms=1 is divide among the states (2 states:0=rms=0(black), 1=rms=1(red); 3 states:rms=[0|0.5|1])
• Design approach: using creation arguments to alias abstractions, so subsequently they are referred to by their creation arguments, ex. in [KITS sample] sample is referred to as [$1]; which is how they are listed below)

(notes: what I learned experimenting with this design approach, I will share as a separate post. Currently, it does not include cut-copy-paste (of regions of the pattern)). I good way to start trying it out is clicking the "R" to get a random kit and a random pattern).

virgo:[virgo/PROJECT KITS PATTERNS]

• PROJECT[KITS PATTERNS]
  • $1:[KITS sample]
    • GUI
      • K: openpanel to load a previously saved *.txt (text object) kit of samples; on loadbang the default.txt kit is loaded
      • S: save the current set of samples to the most recently opened *.txt (kit) preset
      • SA: saveas a *.txt of the current set of samples
      • D: foldererpanel a sample directory to load the first (alphabetically) 16 samples into the 16 slots
      • RD: load a random kit from the [text samples] object where the samples where previously loaded via the "SAMPLES" bang on the right
      • U: undo; return to the previously opened or saved *.txt kit, so not the previously randomized
      • MASTER: master gain
      • (recorder~: of the total audio~ out)
        • record
        • ||: pause; either recording or play;
        • play: output is combined with the sequencer output just before MASTER out to [dac~]
      • SAMPLES: folderpanel to load a (recursive) directory of samples for generating random kits
    • ABSTRACTIONS
      • $1: sample
        • bang: openpanel to locate and load a sample for a track
        • canvas: filename of the opened sample; filenames are indexed in alignment with track indices in the PATTERNS section
  • $2:[PATTERNS row]
    • GUI
      • P: openpanel to load a previously saved *.txt (pattern) preset file; on loadbang the default.txt pattern is loaded; the preset file includes the beat, pattern, and effect settings for the row
      • S: save the current pattern to the most recently opened pattern .txt
      • SA: save as (self-explanatory)
      • states: the number of possible states [2..8] of each beat;
      • %: weight; chance of a beat being randomized; not chance of what it will result in; ex. 100% implies all beats are randomized ; random beats result in a value)gain) between 1 and states-1
      • PLAY(reset): play the pattern from "start" or on stop reset all playheads to start
      • start: which beat to start the playheads on
      • length: how many beats to play [+/-32]; if negative the playheads will play in reverse/from right to left
      • bpm: beats-per-minute
      • rate: to change the rate of play (ie metro times) by the listed factor for all playheads
      • R: randomize the total pattern (incl period and beats, but not the effect settings; beats of 1/32 are not included in the possibilities)
      • CL: clear, set all beats to "0", i.e. off
      • U: undo random; return to the previously opened or saved preset, ie. not the previous random one
      • M: mute all tracks; the playheads continue moving but audio does not come out of any track
      • ||:pause all playheads; play will resume from that location when un-paused
      • per: period; if 0=randomizes the period, >0 sets the period to be used for all beats
      • Edit Mode
        • Check the [E] to enter edit mode (to cut, copy, or paste selected regions of the pattern)
          • Entering edit mode will pause the playing of the pattern
          • Play, if doing so beforehand, will resume on leavng edit mode
          • The top-left most beat of the pattern grid will be selected when first entering edit mode
        • Single-click a beat to select the top-left corner of the region you wish to cut or copy
        • Double-click a beat to select the bottom-right corner
          • You may not double-click a beat "less than" the single-clicked (top-left) beat and vice-versa
        • Click [CL] to clear your selection (i.e. start over)
        • The selected region will turn to dark colors
        • If only one beat is selected it will be the only one darkened
        • Click the operation (bang) you wish to perform, either cut [CU] or copy [CP]
          • Then, hold down the CTRL key and click the top-left corner of where you want to paste the region
          • The clicked cell will turn white
          • And click [P] to paste the region
        • Cut and copied regions may both be pasted multiple times
          • The difference being, cutting sets the values (gains) for the originating region to "0"
        • Click [UN] to undo either the cut, copy, or paste operation
          • Undoing cut will return the gains from 0s to their original value
      • (effect settings applied to all tracks)
        • co: vcf-cutoff
        • Q: vcf-q
        • del: delay-time
        • fb: delay-feedback
        • dist: distortion
        • reverb
        • gn: gain
    • ABSTRACTIONS
      • $1: [row (idx) b8] (()=a property not an abstraction)
        • GUI
          • (index): aligns with the track number in the KITS section
          • R: randomize the row; same as above, but for the row
          • C: clear the row, i.e. set all beats to 0
          • U: undo the randomize; return to the originally opened one, ie. not the previous random one
          • M: mute the row, so no audio plays, but the playhead continues to play
          • S: solo the row
          • (beat): unit of the beat(period); implying metro length (as calculated with the various other parameters);1/32,1/16,1/8, etc.
          • (pattern): the pattern for the row; single-click on a beat from 0 to 8 times to increment the gain of that beat as a fraction of 1 rms, where resulting rms=value/states; black is rms=0; if all beats for a row =0 (are black) then the switch for that track is turned off; double-click it to decrement it
          • (effects-per-row): same as above, but per-row, ex. first column is vcf-cutoff, second is vcf-q, etc.
        • ABSTRACTIONS
          • $1: b8 (properties:row column)
            • 8-state bang: black, red, orange, yellow, green, light-blue, blue, purple; representing a fraction of rms(gain) for the beat

Credits: The included drum samples are from: https://www.musicradar.com/news/sampleradar-494-free-essential-drum-kit-samples

p.s. Though I began working on cut-copy-paste, it began to pose a Huge challenge, so backed off, in order to query the community as to 1) its utility in the current state (w/o that) and 2) just how important including it really is.

p.p.s. Please, report any inconsistencies (between the instructions as listed and what it does) and/or bugs you may find, and I will try to get an update posted as soon as enough of those have collect.

Love and Peace through sharing,
Scott