I think this is the final release, last chance to test your patches and make sure everything is working well in this release. Also, double-check the translations. I'll do one final import of translations from Transifex before finalizing it. Download here:

http://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended/releases/0.43.4

Its been a long time coming, but its finally reached completion! This release includes the most new features of any release before, here are some highlights:

* complete help search: search all installed docs (Help->Search)
* loaders: you can now write native Pd objects in Lua (pdlua) and Tcl (tclpd)
* new libraries: log, iemguts, mediasettings, pduino, syslog
* GUI plugins: customize your editing experience
* full Unicode support, write patches in any language
* fully translatable GUI, with many languages already included
* Magic Glass to see what's going through connections as it happens

And much more: http://puredata.info/dev/NextRelease

Download it here:
http://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended/releases/0.43.4

Or if you are using Ubuntu/Mint, you can use the PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~eighthave/+archive/pd-extended/

run these commands in the Terminal to add this PPA to your system:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eighthave/pd-extended

There are some bugs that will have to wait until the next release:

* Windows command line args don't work with unicode
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3595309&group_id=55736&atid=478070

* [initbang] worked with GUI objs in 0.42 but not in 0.43
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3599058&group_id=55736&atid=478070

* Right-click menu causes CPU spike
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3525646&group_id=55736&atid=478070

* specific kinds of "GUI overload"
http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2012-12/099534.html

Pd-extended 0.43.4 beta is up, I think this is very close to done:
https://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended/releases/0.43.4

For Ubuntu you can use the PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~eighthave/+archive/pd-extended

You can find a partial list of new features here:
http://puredata.info/dev/NextRelease

Pd-extended 0.43.4 beta is up, I think this is very close to done:
https://puredata.info/downloads/pd-extended/releases/0.43.4

For Ubuntu you can use the PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~eighthave/+archive/pd-extended

You can find a partial list of new features here:
http://puredata.info/dev/NextRelease

I know this is an oldish thread but I figured I'd post how I control the LEDs as I just figured it out. The attached example turns the top left corner LED on and off.

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

Hello everyone

The day before yesterday I went to the local electronic-music- accessory-store to look after an alternative to the monome, since it is quite impossible get one from the official store. So as I got there the salesman showed me akai's apc and novation's launchpad, both without the functions of the great monome. The guy then recommended me to go online and try to find a patch which could emulate the ''monome''.

There were some patches, but the most good ones were only useable with maxforlive, and as a student I already had a hard time purchasing live. THEN all of a sudden...pd. I was expecting some crazy code language, but after an hour I nearly shat brix.I did this little patch (took me like 5h) today and am now asking you to give me a little feedback.

Thanks for reading and/or checking out the patch.

And please remember, I'm new to this.

Have a nice evening

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

[wiimote] is available from the puredyne ppa.
https://launchpad.net/~puredyne-team/+archive/ppa

Thank you very much gema!!!
Now it's time to have some fun with my Launchpad!

Spent the better part of today reverse engineering gridflow's "multiblob" example patch -- time well spent, actually, as I now have a much better idea what it's actually doing than I would if I had just cribbed the example.

The only trouble is, it's s-s-l-l-l-l-o-o-o-o-o-o-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w, chewing anywhere from 30-60% CPU according to Ubuntu system monitor. So I'm wondering how to pick up the pace. My patch is attached.

First obvious thing is, reduce the image size by another factor of two. After [#downscale_by 4 smoothly], the image is 320x256. I may not need that much resolution, but I'd prefer to keep that as a last resort.

Second thing -- I'm not sure how much efficiency I'm losing by reading the webcam using gem and then converting to gridflow. I ended up doing it that way because I simply could not get [#camera] to grab images at all. The #camera panel does identify the laptop's built-in webcam (BisonCam,_NB_Pro) but 'bang'ing a [#camera 0] only produces this error.

error: [#io.videodev in /dev/video0 0] inlet 0 method bang: alloc_image: ioctl VIDIOCGMBUF: Invalid argument

(Ubuntu Lucid (2.6.33-29-realtime), 64-bit, pd 0.42.5-extended, installed gridflow from the puredyne PPA https://launchpad.net/~puredyne-team/+archive/ppa/+files/gridflow_9.12-1%7Eppa1%7Elucid1_amd64.deb)

Beyond that, I don't know enough about what gridflow is doing under the hood to use it more efficiently. Any pointers?

Thanks,
James

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/labelling-to-osc-blur9.pd

Hi to all,

I have a patch that convert launchpad midi note to midi CC to an Yamaha RM1X all connected with jack, so i have:

Jack connection :
Launchpad Out ------> Pure Data Midi-in 1 (for the PD patch)
Pure Data midi-Out 1 ----> midisport (for the yamaha)

if i want to use the led of launchpad for visual feedback:

Pure Data midi-Out 2 ----> Launchpad IN

The problem is that the launchpad get and send midi to ch 1, if i send to the lauchpad i send also to the Yamaha, how i can separate this two things ? what object i have to use, if is possible ?

Thanks

Hi,

I didn't try yet but i think that it's good and useful for me, i'm very noob and try to learn.
I want use the launchpad for some music, i'm on linux and PD is the only way to use it in setup software and hardware.

Whem i've time i look at your patches.

Can you explain a little the many patches in the zip ?

Thanks