So I have the saddest patch because the [>~] object is not in vanilla Pure Data (and thus not in libpd)

Can anyone suggest a replacement?

(The reason I'm doing it like this is because I can do [>~ 0.5] to get a square wave, but then [>~ 0.25] etc to get other shape pulse waves which isn't used here but is something I'd like to keep?)

Thank you~

(Also I apologise for my horrible ADSR envelope >_> I'm still just a tiny thing with Pd)

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/sad-patch.pd

Hello all!

I'm brand new to PD, but I've been creating software in various languages for awhile. My main interest is doing algorithmic music generation with MIDI instruments.

Okay, with that out of the way, I'd be super grateful if people could look at the mess I've managed to create and either point me to some concepts in the docs or help suggest ways to make it a bit more...readable?

Like, even comments don't seem to stick where I try to put them (particularly if I use line feeds in them), and so commenting patches in and of itself is @.@

I think there are a number of other things I just do... weirdly, because I don't know?

For example, if I were writing a program in a language such as C or Java, I'd create global constants for some things (such as, say, the temp), and then I could just grab it wherever I want, but in PD I have no idea how to do that? And so I end up with two places that just have a value for how long a beat is (the metro object and as a parameter for makenote)

I'm sorry for how vague this is ._.; The patch works, AFAIK, at least, and it might be at least a little amusing for people who are better composers than me

Thank you for any help or advice~

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/demo-2.pd

Ah! Okay, thank you for the comments!

I was wondering about the errors but though (mistakenly) that it was because I was using short names or something...

and [r foo] sound like they're going to be super helpful, along with [select]. Yeah, the cascade... got to be kind of ridiculous.

Thanks again for taking the time to look and provide feedback! I really appreciate it. =D