Hi everyone

I was just writing a very simple patch to use with my music students. All it does is print out random intervals which they have to sing above a drone, nothing spectacular in PD terms. However, at the moment I'm using the console screen for the intervals (results) to be shown via a [print] object. BUT, it suddenly dawned on me ... is there some sort of 'console' type object that I could add straight into/onto my patch .. by any chance?

Thanks in advance.

Intervals... so something like maj3rd, dim7th, min2nd?
You could use [symbol] and [messages(

To make it a bit more fancy, you can always add a canvas, give it a receive name (right click, properties and give if e.g. myCanvas as label name) and send values to it. Then you can style a bit more (color, fontsize,...) like this:

[label maj3rd(
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Thanks everybody.

alistair_blunt :
The [symbol] and [symbol\ works fine, but I can' see how the [messages( would work? Maybe you could explain? I already have something like this :

[bang]
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[shuffle]
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[sel]
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[b7 (
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[print]

Of course using a [symbol\ atom works fine via [symbol] if you only want one figure. I'm trying to also introduce 2, 3 and 4 intervals. Of course you can add a new symbol atom each time, but it's not perfect.

domien :

As for the canvas idea, yes I quite like it, but do you mean to add to alistair's idea, or is it a new idea? If so I'm not sure where we can see the figures/symbols printed out? I imagine you meant adding a sub-patch and adding a canvas into that?

In fact I had thought of adding a canvas into the patch - but again it's back to the above remark where I'd still need several/many symbol atoms. That's okay, just a little messy.

Thanks again.

I said messages because I send messages to a [symbol].
I attach an example of what I mean.

With canvas is better indeed...

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/joesh-symbol.pd

I said messages because I send messages to a [symbol].
I attach an example of what I mean.

With canvas is better indeed...

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/joesh-symbol.pd

I'm not really sure how your patch works of course, but I meant something like that attached patch.

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

haha, one more
competition...

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

Great stuff, I never thought everyone would jump in on this, thanks everybody!

I just tweaked domien's patch just to show what I meant with my diagram above. I had the same idea as you all - without the canvas of course (LOL) - but I used [shuffle] on this occasion to control the random aspect. Otherwise you can just get the same number being banged many times, as I'm sure you all know. Shuffle gets round this problem.

I'll tweak the patch again as I'll be adding the possibilities of 1, 2, 3 or 4 intervals at the same time, just for the fun.

Big thanks again to all.

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