This is my try at a no-sample drummachine. It's a rather complex machine, so i'll try to explain it as clear as i can, but still probably very unclear

To just make sound, you should (normally) do this :

• select a preset (bottom left)
• press the run button (top left)

Some more functions:

• there are four instruments (2 bassdrums, 1 snare, 1 hihat/cymbal thing), you can control their levels in the mix section
• each instrument follows one of the tables at the right (not the fifth one)
• to access each instrument's controls click the [pd controls] object. I won't explain each control, just try them. However, each instrument has a pink radio-strip, this selects which table the instrument currently uses. The brown radio skips notes.
• to ad grit, use the woodfire section (beware of your ears, although it will diminish the output level). This is my go at a constant-output-level thing (is this some form of compression?).
• there's a (vst) reverb section for which i normally use the free PSP pianoverb (its controls are mapped in the verb section parameters). The input to the plugin can follow the fifth table, by using the [folw] toggle. This might be a rather confusing section
• there's an FM section which can follow the snare and/or hihat (blue toggles in the mix section). The five sliders in the main section control the fm amount/depth/filter
• the green slider in the main section is the main level
• the organe [hp] slider is the main highpass-level

Something about the tables. Each table has a set of controls:

• Dark red clears the current pattern
• Dark blue randomizes the entire pattern
• Switch the green toggle on the record notes with the spacebar
• Light red button clears all notes except the recorded ones
• Light blue button randomizes all notes except the recorded ones
• The buttons marked < and > shift the pattern left/right
• The radiostrips selects an other pattern
• Patterns can be loaded/saved by the green/red buttons bellow the radio strip
• The very small green toggles enables/disables the auto-load-pattern function
• The randomization depth is controlled by the yellow slider bellow
• The orange slider / grey radio controls the number of steps played

Enjoy it.

Domien

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/CompDR.StandAlone.pd

i guess you don't have pd-extended on your mac.

link 4 download: http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers-0.39.3-extended-rc5.html

Nah,
I have Pd-extended,
tiz throwing up errors,
the likes of...

tanh~
... couldn't create
compressor~
... couldn't create
tanh~
... couldn't create
arraycopy
... couldn't create
arraycopy $0-1
... couldn't create
arraycopy
... couldn't create
arraycopy $0-2
... couldn't create
arraycopy
... couldn't create
arraycopy $0-3
... couldn't create
arraycopy
... couldn't create
arraycopy $0-4
... couldn't create
abs~
... couldn't create
tanh~
... couldn't create
vst~ 2 2
... couldn't create
tanh~
... couldn't create
tanh~
... couldn't create
error: inlet: expected '' but got 'symbol'
... you might be able to track this down from the Find menu.
error: inlet: expected '' but got 'symbol'
error: inlet: expected '' but got 'symbol'
error: inlet: expected '' but got 'symbol'
error: inlet: expected '' but got 'plug'
error: inlet: expected '' but got 'param'

looks like your pd-extended does not have paths installed properly.

did you read the readme file that came with the install?

Hmm, I'm having the same problem, I read the readMe and all it really tells you to do is click the '.reg' file to update the registry.

Perhaps it's a windows issue, god knows I've been smashing my brains against that awful OS for hours and hours this week... for the last time (finally porting my desktop to Linux).

What i usually do when pd can't load a library is locate it on my disk and copy it to the extra folder (in its root that is). So e.g. a dll that is located in the /unauthorized folder goes one "level" up. Like this i've ended up with a bloated extra folder, but at least everything always works.

Yeh I know several months later,
but thanks it was problems with paths,
something to do with my transferance of it from windows to mac,
got it working in the end,
thankies

Hi Domien,

really beautiful. Thank you.
Hello from Prague. Tom

thank you, i hope you're enjoying it...

this one's been a while, in the meantime i've made another much simpler but also effective drum synth. i'll try to strip all balast out of it and post it one of these days.

Im a newbie here..is it possible to run the patches synced at the same time? Like tweaking them live? on a live performance..thanks

I just found this thread and I am really curious about testing the patch. Unfortunately, I can't get it working cause vst~ is not working (using Linux pd-extended 0.42.5). Is there a way to get it working anyway ? or is there a new version of the original patch somewhere ?
thanks in advance

It should work without [vst~] because you can choose to send the signal through the plugin or not (it's the small green toggle in the reverb section).

Trying..