Hi David, many thanks for your time with this! So instead of a 10 second clip being played 68 times a second there is a 2.6 second clip being played 68 times a second - making a shorter time span 'stretch' over the same phasor rate - thus sounding slower and lower?
Best,
redstevo

I was hoping that someone can help explain a piece of code in the patch 3-5-1-4 wavestealing.pd. from the Johannes Kreidler tutorial. I am trying to work out what the code with the sig~ object to create the lower and upper thresholds in hundredths is actually doing but I can't work it out! The help file for sig~ object is not helpful to me and I can't describe what it's actually doing - is it slowing the audio playback down? How do they work in tandem (the upper and lower threshold). I'd appreciate any help with this code!
cheers, redstevo

Thank you all. My actual problem was not appreciating send broadcasts across all abstraction so I had 3 conflicting send messages which worked when I made them unique. Thanks for the clarification about line and $ variables - useful to know that it was line demanding 1, 2 and 3 because that is it's inlet capacity. Happy to post my program when I finished working on it - I've got each synth abstraction working now and working on the coding for automated mixing. The whole patch is designed to work with live input and follow sympathetically - using fiddle to generate overtones.

Every time I try and use $ variables beyond 3, they don't work. So I can feed numbers into $1 $2 $3 in a line object and they work fine - but if I try and use $4 onwards as a variable it doesnt work. Anyone know why? I'm using $1-3 in 3 synth absractions and only one will work correctly at a time
Best, Steve

Hi, I wonder if there is a fix for this - I've set up a continuous osc frequency to be sent of a quodrophonic speaker array via a counter feeding demultiplex object (driven by a metro).
After being sent from the demultiplex object the signal hits some panning to provide a continuous circular trajectory around the speakers. It works fine but every time the counter object triggers the demultiplex to switch speaker there is a loud click. Is there any fix to this? can you make Purr data switch at zero crossing on the smaple etc?
Best,
Steve

Thank you David!

Hi, newbie question about creating waves. Why does the floss manual offer 2051 after the sinesum message when creating waveforms?
http://write.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/generating-waveforms/
What does that number mean?

Sorry for the newbie way of asking but ... I am interested in buying an android tablet and was thinking how good it would be to start up PD on the tablet, write or edit a patch, and then try it out on my desktop when I get to work or in the studio as part of a wider project. I'd
S this possible at all. When I search, I get posts about embedding PD into apps - doesn't sound like the same thing ...
Steve

I'm thinking about working with a friend to make music based on input data he creates from a scenario modelling application. The out put will be numbers which I hope to use to feed an scillatr in PD as a test. As a newbie I don't know what type of numerical data sources PD will accept - can it talk to other programs that generate numerical data in real time?
Many Thanks,
Redstevo

Thanks nestor, will talk with him soon and look into the socket issue. Good news!