What's the favored method these days to get Pure Data to communicate with Propellerhead Reason?

The immediate goal: I have a home-made reactable that talks to pd through OSC. I'd like to use the reactable to control Reson.

More broadly: it would be great to be able to use pd patches to feed into and run Reason instruments.

Thanks!

Sorry to repost about this, but there is something I'm not getting.

In Csound and SuperCollider (as in any VST instrument, etc.), there are standard, built-in mechanisms for MIDI-activated envelopes -- meaning playing synths from a keyboard.
In Csound, it's the 'r' family of line and envelope opcodes. In SuperCollider, it's the 'gate' parameter of the EnvGen UGen.
What these do is:

• start the envelope when you press a keyboard key,
• keep the sustain level as long as you hold the key,
• engage the release segment of the envelope when you release the key (ie Note Off MIDI message).

When I posted about this ealier, someone kindly pointed me to the [c_adsr] object in RjLib. But RjLib is part of neither Pd vanilla nor Pd extended.

Leading me to ask:

1. Is playing synths from a keyboard something that Pd people just do not do? Those who need this use Csound or SC?

2. Or do all Pd users immediately install the RjLib after installing Pd, and use RjLib all the time?

3. Or does Pd have another mechanism for MIDI-driven envelopes that I'm unaware of and that everybody uses?

Thanks very much.
I'd be very curious to know if other Pd users have asked themselves the same question.

Is there a standard method in Pd to make real-time ADSR envelopes, meaning envelopes where the release segment will be triggered by a note off MIDI event?

Many thanks for your help.

@alistair_blunt said:

You can use a virtual midi port ... depending on your OS.

What would that look like under Windows?

Is that something that I would select from within Reason?

(Note: I'm normally a Linux user, and so not quite familiar with finding my way into MIDI issues on Windows.)

Thanks!

Mod, thanks so much for implementing the suggestion.
Cheers
Samuel

Just an idea: I really like the way this forum is structured: patch, abstraction, etc. Makes it easy to search.

Another great section to have would be: tutorials.
With time, a nice collection could be built.

Most useful to newcomers.

There are not many questions that remain unanswered, through.

All those things in life we take for granted
Since I started playing synths in the early 1990s, a release segment triggered by a MIDI note off event (ie gradual ending after releasing a key) was found in every synth I played, whether hardware or software synth, free or commercial.
So... I'm wondering how people do this when they create (keyboard-operated) synths with Pd.
There would have to be a standard method.
But then maybe I'm making assumptions

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Jwif, thanks very much for the fast answer.

RjLib doesn't seem to be part of my pedextended (Pd version 0.42-5extended on Ubuntu).

And I wasn't successful when googling RjLib.

Where do I get RjLib?

Hey Wildo

Now that the patch works, could you attach it please?

Thanks

People, wouldn't a free, all-platform, open-source, Pd-based replacement for synthedit and reaktor be a killer app?

It could attract some very serious developers to Pd.

Sinewave, have you considered installing Ubuntu (with a dual boot, so you can keep your XT) on your machine?

The whole problem could then be resolved in an hour.

One of the best intros to Pd available. It's great. A BIG contribution.
Thanks so much.

Hey Deb,

If you are not familiar with Pd, trying to create a synth (FM, physical modeling, etc) that realistically sounds like sitar is going to be a major endeavor. Not exactly a piece of cake, for a first Pd project.

Your best bet might be to find sitar samples used in some a sampler program, and find a way to use them in Pd.

Cheers
Samuel