I really don't know where to post, but at the end I have to admit this is a technical issue.
I'm currently running PD under OSX with an Edirol FA66, and I have two questions for you, wise men!
-- Does PD use all resources of my mac?
-- That's true that the maximum sample rate is, in PD, 48 kHz?

I've noticed that setting the audio interface on 96 kHz I hear tons of clicks coming out, even changing latency duration; do you know why?
Probably will help changing some flags at the startup, but in this my ignorance is abyssal.

Thanks wise men, have a good day

made out with my puredata suite "cuckoo 3.1"

http://www.ciansynthesis.net/sounds/session%2B23-06-19h50m.mp3

hi, i'm a totally newby to gem and pixel#world, but i have to do this exhibit with a friend of mine in which i'll play with pd and he's drawing on his mac with a graphic tablet (actually this is only one of the ideas).

Since i'm the only one who uses PD in the duo, i ask you:

• if it's possible to draw in pd as (or quite as...) in photoshop or similar?
• or better if there is a way to connect any osX drawing program to pd?
• there's a way to draw on a live cam-capture?
• and if there is a way to communicate (like netsend/netreceive) among the laptops?

thank's a lot for any advices

I play, as the electronic guy, in "Les Tambours de Topolò", a percussion ensemble (they play only oil drums of 225 liters). Since the sound/noise is really dry and metallic, i've made this patch (which remain in the background) in order to obtain a more wet and long one. It is also created in order to play short sequences starting with the impulse coming from microphone. It is nothing more than a bonk~ (which is required), anyway i found it very useful playing with LTdT.

... some instructions are included...

have fun!

some LTdT links:
http://www.myspace.com/myltdt
http://www.ltdt.it/pagine/it/index.htm

now it's a self-containing patch (sill needs bonk~)

see next post for attached file

session+28/04-23h51m.mp3

I know you will think this is another installation junk, but is what i like, and it's totaly made in PD.

http://www.ciansynthesis.net/sounds/session%2B28_04-23h51m.mp3

Here is my latest drum machine: it's poly-rhythmic and poly-metric. Hints and tips are welcome for debug (for example: did i properly used spigot? (it's a new entry in my knowledge)).
Anyway, i hope you'll enjoy this little patch!

http://www.ciansynthesis.net

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

i'm sorry to post another help request about this, anyway i really can't solve my problem. I've tried out everything i could read on this forum and obviously i debugged all my patch.
I want to save some presets on .txt file so i create a subpatch in witch parameters are receive-d and writed in a table. every number has his location on the table. then:

[bang (
|
[r array1]
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[savepanel]
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[symbol]
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[write $1.txt (
|

and 'till here all works fine (i.e. the .txt is written well)

then i use openpanel:

[bang (
|
[r array1]
|
[savepanel]
|
[t b b s]
| | |
| [symbol]
| |
[write $1.txt (
| |
|
|
[subpatch in where all parameters are rerouted to their destination (in the same order of the previuos subpatch)]

This seems to work fine, but somewhere the parameters are correctly received somewhere only some, somewhere else not at all (i've noticed it behaves following a routine: what works will continue working and viceversa) and it's strange: i've used copy and paste.
please help me, i'm driving crazy!

great work
how do you used more wacoms? i'm so interested in...

if you move the mouse the cursor will change

probably in one of the two subpatches you use objects that are heavier than in the other (maybe like fft).
you can outlet two bangs (one per subpatch) and compare them with [timer]

it's something i'm asking myself from long time

easy man, here some ideas:
start form [adc~]s, put in some vertical_logarithmic_slider, use [freeverb~] or some delay lines, and for pan just look in forum. Probably you will need a balance on the stereo track. Then finish with a [dac~]s.

to send through usb you certainly need an analog to digital hardware converter

sorry, i said it sounded awful.
what i mean is:

• you make a simply patch in pd, and the same patch in max
• you record the result of both
• then you compare the two recordings inverting the phase of one of the two recordings

this way we can see if the audio quality is the same or not.

i'm a too proud pd-user to download the trial of max!!!
... joking, i'm only too lazy...

@snowball said:

Talking about sound quality, i have tried just to compare basic patches with basic oscillators, i have to say that quality is equal..

have you tried to record and invert the phase of output of one of the patches?

... sorry for the awful sounding of the question

It's a pleasure to agree with the others, Max "is not $800 better than Pd"!
The only thing I regret is the neatest gui: in Pd is not possible hiding ropes
(isn't it? please tell me it's possible..!); but this not worth 250¤!

Again, as maelstrom said:
"I would at least say play with Pd for a while and decide"

To conclude, I still have some doubts for sound quality among two, but probably the true question is: how could be possible that co-exist two so-much-similar-pieces of sofware one free and the other commercial?

i've havent't opened the patch yet, only watch the viedo
probably it is just a little bit too chaotic to pretend to be a "verosimile" jazz drum

I think this is the way.
I'm in doubt with dynamic microphones, condensers usually have a frequency and transient response more accurate, so the room is picked up in a better way,
but you can try (tell me how is working...)

or you can use a simply delay line with no feedback, just a delay.
the time is your pre-daleay or early reflections

yep, convolution reverb are really the copy of an ambience in frequency, decay time T60, and pre-delay or early reflections.
if you want to calculate it you ned a gun (better a fake one) and a mike, then shoot and record. take a deep look at the waveform and look how many msecs pass among the direct sound and the start of the reverb.
This is impuse response (only for E.R.).

Obi, are you sure? I thought this was a rule to build rooms with good acoustic properties, but early reflections depend on where the sound source is in the room: how far from walls is (that can be totally random, or depending on the ensemble, or the stereo image you want to create)

anyway, theese are only academic problems. the only point is:
are your hearing satisfied?

ciao