Cont. from http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-1883-max-switch

Since we are moving out of the technical realm, I felt it wise to move the topic.

I am the only PD type at the organization. I feel that with some ramp up time the end product will be the same as long as I can write my own externals from time to time.

The question was asked what kind on company I am at. I work at a museum in Seattle creating interactive elements in the exhibits. I use PD as the control center to control MIDI hardware, video/audio, flash, director, vbscript, etc.

I am stuck with the move to Max but I think it will work out.

So, I use PD at work, but I am being forced to switch to MAX|MSP. What do I need to know to survive a switchover?

Thanks

This is really off topic but.....
My wife used to live in Sevilla and we are thinking about maybe heading back that way in a year or so. Anyway, wondering what the jazz funk band/electronic music/art installation scene is there. Most of my work is museum multimedia exhibitions/installation using flash/PD/etc. Trying to get a feel for what I might be getting into.
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I set up most of my patches with -mididevin 1 etc but would love to use the device name in case i put the patch on another computer and wanted it to always work right off the bat.

e.g -mididevin KorgM3

so that if the KorgM3 is the 1st in device on one setup and the 3rd device on another it won't matter a bit.

any ideas

So I have been using LoopBE1 on a project. Started a new project that is a little more intensive on the MIDI load. LoopBe1 bites it constantly.

Looking at MIDI Yoke and Maple Virtual MIDI Driver. Any experience with these or others.

What I am doing is getting a signal from a Beringher BCF2000 to PD. PD then send the input out on 4 channels through the virtual MIDI driver to Cubase to use as a generic remote.

There are 6 continuous controllers, 3 switches capable of send MIDI as cc's to PD. Also there are 4 other buttons that send 9 cc messages at once to PD.

Any suggestions for unbreakable (given that I do not have midi loops in the system) virtual MIDI drivers?

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I have an old laptop that is not being used. Currently a windows 2000 machine with Pentium 3 256mg ram.

I there a certain type of Linux that works best for A/V stuff. I plan to basically just run PD on it for now.

Any helpful hint on the Linux switch is also appreciated since I don't know anything about the platform.

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arrgghh.....

I wan to use [vst~] but haven't figured out how to load in the fxb effects bank file. There isn't a load bank on the vst gui.

Any ideas?
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First, does anyone have a working version of [midifile], I downloaded the .dll today and put it in the search path but PD couldn't create.

Second, even if it does eventually load will it do the following:

I need to take a standard MIDI file which plays notes on multiple channels, sends program changes, etc. and have PD read it and send the data to a MIDI hardware sound module for playback.

Is this possible with [midifile] or other object?

I thought about reading data to array's for sending, does this sound plausible?

Thanks for any ideas etc

In reference to the variable send post of earlier.....

I didn't know about send13 nor see it in the PD documentation/help etc. Is there a list of all the objects that ship in PD?

I am trying to receive info from a VBScript. If I am listening with [netreceive] on port 4000, wouldn't TCP messages sent to my computer's IP address port 4000 over the network be received by the [netreceive]? Does [netreceive] only work on the locally?

Any ideas?

I am using windows xp.

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i want pd to trigger an external file with a load bang.

what do you use instead of openpanel when you know what file yuo want to load automatically??

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how well does pd/gem/framestein do with writing video files. I would like to make a patch that takes an incoming stream from a camera and reords to file like writesf~ but for video and sound. If PD can't are there other programs that will work for this
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i have seen a few posts talking about pix_record in GEM. i can't find it, where is it?
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I have written a patch that opens 8 sound files. The sound files are tracks to a song that i want to mix live. Each track is sent to its own readsf~. then I trigger all the readsf~ simutaneously. This works pretty much but I think I am overloading PD and getting dsp errors bad file format/header the errors are spoaratic and effect diiferent tracks on different starts, sometimes no problems at all. Any Ideas on ways to better implement the live mixer?
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I downloaded flashserver which is billed as a pd add-on. It seems that it is only for Max. where can i get the PD version or how do I install correctly(i tried to link to the flashserver.mxe file)
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how is the light sensor trigger connected to the computer?

If you are using a switch to MIDI dev (like a drum trigger) you could use the [notein] object. If using a switch connected to a microprocessor with serial capabilities I am pretty sure there is a [serial] object (though I have never used it).

Also, you could break open a qwerty keyborad, wire the switch to a key press and use [key] or [keyup] etc for input.

Once you get input, you can trigger audio files. There are examples in the examples that come with PD.

@sunji
Some of the kiosks have been 8 track mixers. I start off 8 audio tracks at the same time and route the outputs to a stereo mix. Using a MIDI mixer (BCF2000) I control each audio tracks volume before it goes to the stereo mix down that the user hears in headphones.

In one kiosk I use the audio output levels to control Director based VU animations.

I also used PD in conjunction with vvvv to do a live foley interactive. Pd recorded a sound wave while vvvv showed the video, then pd trigger a synced playback of the two files.

Stuff like that.

If interested, the museum I work at is EMP|SFM in Seattle (empsfm.org)

@nestor
feel free to hit me up for flash help - I suggest going ahead and learning Actionscript 3.0, it is much faster than AS2
also, somewhere in the forums i posted some flash examples (they are as2, I am just starting AS3 myself)

yes, PD helped land a job doing the same type of work. PD works great in conjunction with Flash and Director using the FlashServer object and XML sockets for audio kiosks.

to answer the question about Flashserver - it does connect to PD, and works great.

I have an O2. In windows it just shows up as "USB Device", not as "O2". Same for you maybe?