I'm the proud new owner of an attractive Apple laptop, which is great, but I can't get zexy to compile. Is there any particular reason that basic things like a C compiler aren't included in OSX? Can someone point me in the right direction so that I can actually compile zexy and get my old Pd patches working on my new platform? Many thanks.

~J

Hey all,

I've succeeded in generating thunder using a quasilinear model and MATLAB, and hopefully will soon be able to find an algorithm that will allow me to create entire storms in realtime in Pd (right now it takes a few hours to calculate the thunder signature of a 6-km lightning stroke).

In the meantime, I thought you guys might enjoy the product of today's computations, the thunder signature of a 3km lightning stroke 100m away from the observer. The dry output is very synthetic sounding, but with the simple addition of some reverb it really comes to life!

(I apologize for the quick & dirty cooledit 'verb on the example)

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/ThunderGenerator.zip

Is anyone else going to be attending this event? It's the 21st to 26th of August in Montreal, but I haven't been able to find any more details

When I open up my windows-made patches in my fresh install of kubuntu(Feisty) all the fonts are way too big, so my GUI objects are out of whack. Anyone experienced this before?

Fake Edit: In fact, I'm having the same problem with the built-in docs! I'm using PD 0.39.2

Since this subforum doesn't get much traffic I thought I'd post up some tracks that I've made with my pd lovechild/teaching aide, the Womanipulator(TM)

It's all sample manipulation, live and controlled by the computer keyboard without any sequencing. I'm working on a much cleaner, better, modular version of the same patch that I'll be using to build up to a live performance rig, but for now... hope you enjoy!

1st track is an ambient number I did last winter

2nd track is a simple hiphop beat I threw together recently after getting my grubby paws on some new CDs

I'm trying to make an abstraction to detect arrow key presses. Problem is, [key] doesn't return a number for an arrow key press, and [keyname] only gives an on/off indicator and a name.

Is there any way to compare symbols in PD? If so I could use the right outlet of [keyname] to drive my detection object.

Many thanks

"convolve" is the operation of "convolution", which in the time domain is roughly equivalent to two signals getting into each other's face. It's pretty laborious to calculate, but in the frequency domain it is performed by a simple multiplication (as in ClaudiusMaximus' post)

Ah, didn't see the wikipedia link.

Hmm, I'm having the same problem, I read the readMe and all it really tells you to do is click the '.reg' file to update the registry.

Perhaps it's a windows issue, god knows I've been smashing my brains against that awful OS for hours and hours this week... for the last time (finally porting my desktop to Linux).

sounding good, I really like that 'bouncy' lead synth (the envelope's got a pumping effect like a compression or something, not sure what your process is), it couples well with the shuffle feel of the drums. Kind of like a less ridiculous Mr. Scruff tune.

Well I don't have any personal experience using Pd in filehandling, so someone else could probably help you a bit more at this point. You have the right idea for the method, and here are some objects that I would suggest to use. Here's the algorithm I would suggest:

1. Read a line from the input file
This can be done with [tabread] but I'm pretty sure there are better / easier objects to use. In any case, let's say you get your line from the file which has values seperated by tabs

2. Split the line into its components
Something like [unpack] can help you here, although I'm not sure what the data format is in Pd for lists. I think there might be some external object in zexy that allows you to specify which character delimits each element in a list (so you could seperate the values by commas or colons or whatever).

3. Play the parts simultaneously
Here you would want to use a [poly] object. Again I don't have a whole lot of experience here but there should be plenty of help files available on the subject. You will want to investigate how to use things like [stripnote] and other MIDI-related objects in order to ensure that your parameters are properly formatted.

I don't think your project is beyond Pd's capabilities by any means, but you may have to invest some time exploring each subject seperately in order to fit the whole thing together.

An existence is indivisible only as much as its components are infinite.