This is a silly question, probably.

Where is the list object? I've never been able to create it in a patch, so I assume it's not an internal. Is it in one of the external libraries? I'm using pd-extended 0.38-4 (the latest) on OSX. I worry that the problem is the object is only for linux, but it seems quite prevalent in patches I've downloaded from various places, so I thought I'd ask.

Hello - has anybody had any experiene getting pd to run correctly from the command line in OS X? I can get it to launch just by invoking

"/Applications/Pd-extended.app/Contents/MacOS/Pd"

but, unsuprisingly, this doesn't work with the command-line options, which is really the point as I'm trying to get pdrp to work.

This leads to the next question, which is can one still build pd in OS X using Tk/Wishshell and all that? The documentation I've been able to find (and if there's a newer doc I'd much appreciate a link) is talking about 10.2 before there was a premade application around.

Any thoughts (and experience with getting pdrp to work in Tiger) would be appreciated!

Check out example B.08.sampler.loop (in Help>Browser>Audio Examples) and the other examples provided.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'interacting' - if you just want to turn a control or audio flow on or off based on the proximity of one object to another, you won't need pmpd - just calculate the distance between your two circles and compare it to a radius which determines whether to turn the signal flow on or off.

I've attached a file that does something like that.

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

Download pd-extended ( http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html ) and check out the pmpd examples (in the 'examples' section of the help browser).

To close a patch use a message to that patch name [patchname vis 0([/quote]
Where are these special messages (i.e. things you can send to pd, <patchname>, etc.) documented?

@hardoff said:

get 0.39.2

http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers-0.39.2-extended-test4.html here for os10.3,

and here http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html for os 10.4

As easy as I'd hoped - thanks!

pow should do the trick (read the docs on it, though, as it behaves strangely for negative mantissas/bases). If it's a complicated expression, expr is also a good object to look into.

If you need to find simple arithmetic operators like this, check out the list of pd objects brought up by getting help on a blank section of the canvas.

Yep, it's pretty easy - just plug the projector into your laptop, set it up as a second monitor (as opposed to a mirror of your laptop LCD), and use the [fullscreen 2{ message to gemwin to get your graphics over there.

I've never tried it personally, and someone please correct me if I'm in error, but apparently the best way to load a sample up live is to have a subpatch with a very high sampling rate and use readsf~ and tabwrite~. This way it will only try and load some number of samples per dsp block, instead of trying to load the entire file as quickly as possible, which can overload the cpu.