Aye, two things I've been looking (probably not hard enough) for. Especially after the performance I just saw in ICA by Florian Hecker!

1. to be able to choose which audio outputs and inputs to use to route through particular sections of a patch, rather than having to go to 'Audio Settings'. Does such a function exist for PD?

2. I've looked at bonk~, fiddle~ and rhythm~ but none seem to quite give the correct tempo recognition of any more complex samples or rhythms like Traktor or Live can do. Has anyone made this tempo recognition algorithm for PD, if so where please.

tremendous thanks to any goodness there. Cheers

i just googled "pure data tempo recognition" and got sent back to this thread!

1. on Linux or OS X there's JACK, which I think can easily be interfaced with Pd using the k_jack~ external (I've not tried it myself, but I heard good things about it). Otherwise you need to make your own routing matrices, which can be done with iemmatrix externals, or internals like [*~] (although this is more work, of course).

2. http://aubio.piem.org/ Just seen this posted on pd-list, apparently it has a pd external, I've not tried it yet though, and it is still at an early stage in development from the looks of things.

EDIT: When I (rarely) DJ with Pd, I feed all the tracks through bpmdj and a couple of bash scripts I wrote to filter the output into something loadable in Pd. Works a treat with readanysf~'s tempo control. Needs to analyze the tracks offline beforehand, it's quite slow (and hopefully accurate...), but here it is: http://bpmdj.sourceforge.net/

Hi illdas,
did you try rythm_estimator ?
What's the relation between bonk~, fiddle~, and live's or traktor's time stretching functions?

I've made also a sampler that is able to synchronize loops together with modifying the pitch of wave files, it's not a difficult stuff.

It would be very interesting to make something that is stretching sound instead of pitching it, tabread~ can do the job but too many artefacts are appearing through this process.

An fft analysis from pd would help to do the job of time stretching with having a sound quality a lot more interesting than ANY known payware.

Someone have to find the patch for doing it.

patco.

Cheers folks,

Meagle, I don't have rythm_estimator. Do you know where I can find it?

CM, shame I'm on Windows for now. Also a shame VAC (Virtual Audio Cable) is so crap compared to Jack, and the only audio patch bay I've found so far. I'll see if http://aubio.piem.org/pub/aubio-0.3.0.tar.gz works when I next get time with my PD baby.

Hello,

I've compiled and tried it last year on Fedora core 4 on a 32bit system, it worked fine.

I am just starting compilation on windows yet.

I will try to make a dll as soon as possible, this does not mean that I am able to do it.
If you want to try, I invite you to follow the HC's instruction for compiling with mingw.

or,

Get linux and compile it from cvs:
http://pure-data.cvs.sourceforge.net/pure-data/externals/rhythm_estimator/

oh sorry I've made a typo on this external name, it's because I didn't use it since last year, my bad.

Patco.

maybe a combination of tempo tapping and then having a bonk which adjusts the tapped tempo near where you manually `set` it ?

minikomi, you rock. i'm gonna do that.

I tried recording straifght into Live but it won't recognise the temo of what it records. Only files brought to it! I also tried saving audio in sound forge, to then retriev in Live which woudl tell teh tempo, but it takes way too long.

I guess it's tiem to get tapping and fine tuning the tempo. Cheers minikomi

Meagle, I may try that out some day . ..

Hello there everyone. I am a completely new to PD having only opened it for the first time yesterday. I am a Masters student in Interactive Media in University of Limerick, Ireland. I was wondering if you could direct me to a suitable forum. My questions at this stage are very basic.
For example, I have plugged a drum pad into my mic/line in and I am trying to work out its threshold levels so that when I hit the drum, a certain wav sample will play. Would anybody be able to give me simple directions as to how to achieve this? Also, I was wondering if it would be okay to post up my final year project proposal to see if any of you guys might have some suggestions?
Thanks - Ailbhe

i think [fiddle~] will be the best object for you, aibhe

it actually outputs the pitch of the note played, but since every drum sound probably has a different pitch, you can use that to trigger your samples.

the thing you request is definately possible, and is not too hard to make. it would be a good starting project to learn pd. there are probably half a dozen or more basic ways in which you could do it.

as for suggestions... please post. when you learn something, generally everyone else does too.

also, make sure you register for the pd mailing list. it's the best 'forum' and you're always welcome to ask / answer questions there.

http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Thats for that hardoff. I managed to get a test patch up and working. As I said, I am not normally on forums so I don't know what is acceptable or not but I am doing half my final year project in pd so I thought I could post the url of a webpage detailing the project and if anyone is interested they might want to have a look and perhaps send on some suggestions.

http://193.1.99.6/%7Ekeogana/forum.htm

Thanks lads,
Ailbhe