I posted it in the wrong place, now I moved here.

Hi there,

I've made this little rhythm recorder. It's very simple and it's not supposed to make grooves or repeated patterns. It's just a recorder that takes input from a bang or the microphone, and stores the tempo map into an array, so you can reproduce it later. I'm interested in reproduce the subtle tempo changes from conventional instruments performance's, that's why it has no quantization. You can drag a slider to choose where you want to start the playback.

It has a augmentation/diminution feature, and if you doubled the player, you could generate rhythmic canons by augmentation, etc.

If you guys know any interesting patches about rhythmic procedures, I would love to know.

Regards,
PeterAndTheWolf

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

Hi there. This is my first post here, that's why it's a little big. I want to thank everybody in this incredible forum. I've learned much about Pure Data here, and it's unbelievable that such competent people like you guys actually spend time thinking about minor issues from newcomers like me. You even write elegant code for people, it's amazing.

I have a very important question, yet it's very simple I guess.

I've been studying Pure data for about a month and I'm enjoying very much. I'm a composer, mostly chamber music, but now interested in using this software to control live electronics parts in future compositions, play pre-recorded sound files, analyse aspects from standard instruments performances and reflect it in the begavior of the electronics parts, etc. (My first "serious" patch was one that hears the rhythm of a conventional instrument (via [bonk~]) and notates it on a table. Later the original rhytmic patterns can be reproduced, with controls for speed etc. I don't know if the solutions are the best ones, but it worked fine for claps or chord atacks captured by the mic.)

Well, to play in a concerto it's a big deal of responsability. And my worries are about the stability of the software. I use a Windows XP SP2 and an ASIO4all driver pluged in my onboard sound card. "Most" of times everything goes ok, but sometimes pure data freezes, or interrupt sound briefly, etc. Would it all disapear on a Mac? I really need an answer, because a Mac is very expensive here (Brazil) and it would be a huge $tep for me to buy one. Yet, even if I bought one, it would be a Macbook, wich I is not the stronger setup, I guess. I was studying super collider and quit, because many functions don't run well in windows. Too bad.

Also, I was experimenting with fiducials detection from aktivision and pure data. PD really suffers, with glitches, stuttering, etc because of the stream of OSC information from the camera, i guess. Strangely, Max 4.6 worked smoothier. But I don't want to buy a max. I really love this art freedom pure data allows, but ...

Oh I forgot this: I saved arrays contents with the patches (about 15Mb from 6 .wav files in 6 arrays), and whenever I load the patch pure data takes very much to respond (about a minute to respond to any mouse click). I don't need a solution right now, I'll find in the forum better ways to load samples than saving arrays contents. It's just to you to konw the problems I'm having. After that minute the program becomes responsible again.

I apprecciate any help in this matter: Is Mac the salvation??? I never touched one

My PC is a Intel, Core 2 Duo E4400 2Gz with 2 Gb RAM.

Best regards
PeterAndTheWolf
ps: sorry for any problems in my English.

Thanks. It was my first "useful" patch ever. But it's so embaracing when I open some patches of you guys ... They are so complex, that I wonder if some day will I understand them completely. But that's the idea, knowledge flow from denser minds to fresher ones. Man, this place is very exciting.

thanks for the notes about naming files saturno. I don't have many patches now, but it would be a problem rename stuff in a lot of patches in the future.

The problems gone away with domien's idea. I'm loading samples on startup now.

Thx guys

Oh god, thank you very much guys. That's exactely what I wanted, opinions based on experience. I'm going to stick to PC for a while then, and learn as much as I can about PD, since all of you find that the OS is not such a huge matter.

I tried UBUNTU about two years ago, and used it for 6 months, but I really need a few softwares that have no linux version, like finale. I'm gonna give UbuntuStudio a try, maybe in a dual system.

In the future I'll try to buy a MAC for the "non-crashability" aspect, that would be useful for other things too.

Thanks. I appreciated your opinions,
much more confident now.
P&TW