hi there,

I'm a newbie in puredata but I good with Maxmsp. So simple questions first,
how do I add externals to Puredata? I would like to buiid a simple patch with a scale or range object. I'm using the Vanilla version of Puredata because I would like to work with MobMuPlat as a controller. I can't seem to find this object but only on older extended versions of puredata but I cna't do the netreceive with MobMuPlat. Hope I'm not too confusing.

Basically I need to use range or scale object. where can i get it and how do i get these working in Puredata?

thanks

You can install externals with the deken-plugin, which is built-in Pd-0.47.0. I don't think though that you can use externals with the MobMuPlat editor.
Making a scaling abstraction is pretty easy. All you need is [* ] for the scaling and [+ ] for the offset.
Check my [map] abstraction here https://github.com/alexdrymonitis/miscellaneous_abstractions
It does what you want, probably.

Other than the "built-in" vanilla externals (fiddle~, etc), you won't be able to add other pd objects (unless you recompile MobMuPlat from source).

BTW [netreceive] actually does work within a MobMuPlat patch, but it's not recommended as it is not as robust as using the built-in networking (via [send toNetwork] and [receive fromNetwork]), since it can cause a crash that leaves a port open (I should try to fix that...).

ok thanks for the reply.

Thanks alexandros for the tip. Got it working now.

I understand that the maxmsp object gate is called spigot in pd. Am i seeing right that spigot only gets a 1 or 0 for the gate values? How do I make like in maxmsp gate 2 or gate 3?

Thanks for the info on Mobmuplat. I didn't know about this or missed it on the website. It's a pity but well I guess almost everything is possible with a little bit of maths or logic.

Hmm now after fiddling around with pd-extended and with the vanila version, pd can't seem to load bonk and fiddle extensions. I've already deleted and reinstall the newest pd version and it still doesn't seem to work. Any ideas?

@dzees

Demux is a gate on specific values if that's what you're after. It's part of Extended, so an external on vanilla.

You'll need to make a subpatch or abstraction if you want [spigot] to behave they way you say..

@dzees Like this.......
spigotted.zip
.....but if you give the incoming messages a tag....... making each one a list like 1 0.345 and 2 woof7 etc. (by using [prepend] then you can just use [route 1 2 3.........] ....... look inside [spigotted] for clues.....
You can even use recognisable symbols to tag the incoming messages...... like dog 0.345..... cat woof7 and then [route dog cat] ......... so basically the message arriving tells the [route] object to which output it should be sent........
David.