This has nothing to do with PD, but jsut wanted poeple to know I have been monkeying around with Wordpress to create a blog anyone can post to about stuff they or anyone else has done. Kind of like a reverse twitter. The technology is pretty cool, but has taken a little work, so I haven't been doing any PD stuff in a while. Anyway, just in case you want to check it out, here's a link:

http://kemptonmooney.com/did/wordpress/

It's been a while since I tinkered with any of my pd patchs, but recently went to an old one and found that some of the objects couldn't be created. Here's a list of what could not be created that I know of so far:

spigot~
wahwah~
getdir
folder_list

All of these objects worked at some point previously. I am on a mac powerbook using pd version 0.39.3-extended. I have GEM installed, but that may be the only additional library installed.

Can someone tell me how to get these objects back?

Thanks!

Last night while watching Tv I put together an 8 step sequencer to use with my monome. Thought I would share it. Works fine without a monome by clicking on screen. It sends midi out to any app, no frills, but so far seems solid.

Here's a link:

http://www.geocities.com/fkmooney/links/apps/monomeseqfordrumv2.pd

and here's where I've been posting my patches:

http://www.geocities.com/fkmooney/links

Working on putting together a GEM patch that destroys video clips into color abstraction. Here's a what the output looks like for now. The base material is a clip of a guy riding a bike.

I am new to GEM and have wirtten a video player wit hsome effects on it. I would like to record, or export, or render the video with the effects on it. I am on a G4 running OSX 10.4. I understand there is a pix_record object, but you need pidip and pdp to run it, which will not work on OSX. Is there any way to write a video file (no need for audio), or do I have to use a screen capture method and put up with fuzzy resolution?

Thanks!

Kempton

I finally got around to posting on my site a couple of patches I have created/modded. One is a mod to hardoff's magnificent 2 channel player. There are a couple of midi sequencers, and a patch for a monome that just triggers different lighting patterns. Nothing super crazy but thought I would post them in case they are useful to anyone. Here is the link:

http://www.geocities.com/fkmooney/links.html

I have found a fix:

Load library that contains missing object into line on Preferences>StartUp
Save settings
Quit PD
Reopen PD
Remove recently added library from Pref>Startup
Save settings
Quit PD

Now object will load correctly

I have now realized that PD cannot create many objects from the following libraries:

sigpack
smlib
pixeltango
unauthorized
maxlib
hcs

I can find the help info for the objects that are missing, but the objects appear with broken lines around them. ANy info would be helpful. Thanks!

That's very helpful to know. Thanks, man, I appreciate your help.

thanks for the info. I'm running PD .39 extended and can't get it the object to work. Good to know that someone has gotten it to. Does it just ouput stills, or can it output a .mov file (or something like .mov)?

Thanks, but is there any way to do this internally? I am looking for a solution or object similar to what [writesf~] does for audio.

Thanks again!

K

that's a great idea. I will say that I love having faders mapped to the two volumes, makes for lots of fun. Thanks for all your hard work on the patch, I have had a great time playing with it.

thanks for the suggestions. What I ended up doing was just adding a couple of keys that advance to the next array or the previous array. Since the arrays load the files alphabetically from the audioloops folder, I just numbered the files in the set order.

So now I use my folder window as a view of the set list, i have keys to advance through the files in order, and the last mod I made was to create a viewer that shows which array (file) is playing that I can scroll through to jump to a specific file. I'm goign to add some volume controls and perhaps another track or two.

This thing is loads of fun to play with......

Truly awesome patch. I have been messing around with it and am in absolute awe. I want to try and find a way to create a set list for this patch so in addition to having a random mode, I could create a set list and have the files come up in a specific order. I have worked with max patches that do this, but am new to pd. Have you ever tried anythign like that?

I realize the issue now. I was not using messges to feed the noteout object. NOw I feel like a moron. The above errors were just gerneated durign experimentation.

Thanks again for your help.

Thanks for your help! Now I can get the IAC bus to select in the preferences, but I am still not getting any midi output to the app I am sending to. I am jsut creating a test patch so I have some random numbers feeding into the noteout object. Midi out is going to IAC and in my other app IAC is goign into midi in. I am gettign the following messages in the parent window:

error: midiin: works under Linux only

... you might be able to track this down from the Find menu.

error: sysexin: works under Linux only

error: midiin: works under Linux only

error: sysexin: works under Linux only

chord v0.2, written by Olaf Matthes <olaf.matthes@gmx.de>

load_object: Symbol "borax_setup" not found

borax

... couldn't create

score v0.1, score follower written by Olaf Matthes <olaf.matthes@gmx.de>

score: no array "o" (error 0)

score: skipindex set to 2, skiptime set to 300 milliseconds

pitch v0.1b, written by Olaf Matthes <olaf.matthes@gmx.de>

xeq

... couldn't create

i have the same issue you reported, but have been unable to resolve it. What did you do to get fix the issue? were you able to get choices in the midi preferences dropdowns?

Thanks!
another newbie