Hey guys

This is my first post! Whey. I figured I'd upload a patch I've been expanding over the last few weeks. I work mainly on a Macbook so there may be problems running it on windows/linux - I wouldn't know. Apologies if this is the case! The simplest way to understand how to operate it is to ask - If you can't work out what you're supposed to be doing just write a reply on here and I'll get back to you as soon as I can!

Oh and also - the only reason it's called the 'Beautiful version' is because I've decorated it with Canvas' etc. It's not an arrogant statement at all haha.

I hope you enjoy it

Tim

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

Any one have any thoughts about the patch? Critique would be highly appreciated

Could probably do with some explanatory comments and initial values for the hsliders etc. as it took me a while to figure out how to get some noises going.

Also, got some errors when i opened it:

error: $1: argument number out of range
error: $1: argument number out of range
error: playlist : requested location >/PureData/drumtemplates< is not a directory

wasn't sure what to do but it looks cool.

I couldn't get the sound going and when I was messing around pushing buttons and such the sequencer started to go really fast. I went up to the tempo or BPM control in the sequencer section and tried to reduce it and it crashed. Maybe if you did a little youtube video it might be easier to get started. Looks like a lot of work went into it.

Hi Tim,

First, I'm using pd 0.42.5-extended on a Windows system.

I discovered that your drum sequencer and possibly other sections of the patch are not working due to problems in "pd effectsunit" referenced by drumguts

In effectsunit:
First thing I noticed was that there were numerous [spigot~] objects. Evidently [spigot~] does not exist in the windows version, but I did find this thread with an abstraction that works: http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-1181-spigot

After adding that abstraction to my system, the drum sequencer is working properly. I observed however that the system wigs out if the bpm is set to 0 (the default), so you may want to set some non-zero default BPM.

The Vanilla Samples section is also working as expected.

However, I'm not able to get anything to happen with the left and right turntable sections. I can load a sample into it, but nothing happens.

Also, I'm not sure what is supposed to be going on in the area between the two turntables, but I'm getting an error in the console window:

playlist .text 150 100 \{Helvetica 10 bold\} white grey black red
... couldn't create

In digging deeper and attempting to implement the step sequencer I made, I discovered some issues with the controls in the drum sequencer.

The send symbols are incorrect on row 1 and row 2 after b24. In row 1 there is a typo in the send symbol and for the remainder of the row, the numbers are off by one.

I've attached my take on the step sequencer. Data is stored and played back from an array. I think this is more efficient, and also serves to make saving/loading sequences trivial.

I you disable the bang that recieves symbol "go" in drumguts, and open this patch along side yours, this patch will take over for instrument/track 1 in the sequencer.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/stepSequencer_v0.1.pd

Thanks Knapper, I like your patch very much!
Just a little remark: [t b b] after [r beat] would make it more robust.