hi guys- so I'm trying to wrap my head around how bonk~ really works and as usual the Pd help documentation leaves me with more questions than answers.

In particular, I am interested in bonk~'s template recognition functionality. I've looked at Obiwannabe's example

I've searched this site pretty thoroughly but didn't find any posts specific to how to use bonk. I'm interested in how to train bonk with 'learn' (if it's even still in the patch), store the generated template, and then load it back into bonk later so it doesn't have to be re-trained each time.

Anyone used bonk~ enough to provide a real overview on how to use it?

[EDIT] I just realized that the 'learn' stuff in the help doc is slightly hidden in the pd templates abstraction in case anyone else misses that on first look like me. Still, any advice on using bonk is welcomed.

I've now worked with bonk some and just by trial and error am getting decent results training it to discriminate various tapped items like a coffee cup, a small box, etc. items around the house. I can save the generated spectral templates to a txt file but trying to load the file with the 'read' message crashes Pd. I tried to use an absolute path instead but that doesn't work either. Anyone know if this is a bug in bonk?

you might be in some reasonably uncharted territory. There has never been much discussion about the training of bonk~ (as far as i know)

Would be awesome if you could share your findings with us! Sounds cool that you can recognize coffee cups, etc!

I realize I am resurrecting an ancient thread here, but one of my students asked me about how to distinguish between different sounds in bonk~, and this was the only discussion I could find about it! It's really quite simple, so I thought I'd make a tutorial video about it as part of the series I am making to help my class with their final projects. I thought it might be of interest to others, so here you go...

@yannseznec thanks for the tutorial. Are there strategies for training (or configuring) bonk~ to recognize events that can't be isolated, e.g. sounds within a mix?

@yannseznec Thank you for your bonk~ tutorial!
I would like to use it for create this

learning_bonk.pd