I wonder whether Pd works well on mid-range Nokia phones running Windows.

In particular, I'm interested to know of the latency in processing audio-in to -out, if the phone is used as say a guitar effects-box.

The Raspbery Pi mini computer-board has finally just been released: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17190918

... and, I'd be grateful to hear of folks here who might have a shot at using it with Pd over the coming days.

Dear Pd people.

This is to very warmly invite you to think of joining us as Primary-Participant/s of the 7th annual "Carnival of e-Creativity", which is to be played out through February 24-25-26, 2012, at Sattal Estate once again, just above Bhimtal, near Nainital, in the lower Kumaon of the Himalayan Indian state of Uttarakhand.

A barebones webpage is now up as an announcement at: http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec12/index.htm
The standalone CeC website will soon be updated at: http://carnival-of-ecreativity.com/

And, you can link through from the former, if you like, to far more substantive pages on earlier iterations of the incident, for lots of further information on what this is all about. You are also very welcome to ask me for any clarification or further information that you might wish to have in this regard at any time, by emailing shankarbabaa at gmail.

Keep well all ~ Shankar

Hello all,

Today, I was privileged to be a part of what I think was a wonderful interaction and performance here in Delhi, India, running Pd, a Kaossilator, a Jews Harp, and an old Boss Delay.

And, I am grateful to this forum and many of you here for having lent the shoulders for me to lean upon.

(no, we didn't bother to even think of recording)

Thank you, and keep well all ~ Shankar

.edited just for misspellings in a late night post.

Hello all,

I'd like to be in touch with folks working with Pure Data in India (especially Delhi).

Aside from personal interest, I am involved with a couple of public events I'd love love to drag you into.

Keep well all ~ Shankar

Just thought to post a link to this simple PD play, since some friends really seemed to enjoy the patch when I recently gave them a demo.

The patch, derived from JKant's "Cage.pd" quite awhile ago, is attached, and I'd obviously love to have folks carry it further.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/0.John_Cage_Sim.pd

Hello all,

I wonder what sorts of other audio software you all use in addition to Pure Data,.. and your experiences with using them in concert with, and/or in comparison to, PD.

Thanks in advance for all responses.

... and keep well all ~ Shankar

Hello All.

I'm planning to make a midi-controlled and solenoid-driven little robotic drummer (just 2 sticks to begin with) over the coming weeks, using Tom Scarff's Miduino 'Midi to 16 outputs' board, so as to demo the concept in CeC 2010 (http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec10/index.htm).

Now, I do suspect that I 'may' be able to make a basic PD patch to run this, even though I'm an pin-headed permanent newbie with this stuff.

However, being a pretty regular visitor here, I am pretty sure that there's probably a ready patch somewhere in here that would serve for this,... with perhaps just a wee bit of tweaking.

Any ideas, advice, leads?

Keep well ~ Shankar

The Miduino board: http://tomscarff.110mb.com/midi_16_out/midi_to_16_outputs.htm

Hello all,

I wanted to have a taste of Pure Data on Linux by booting into PureDyne off a memory-stick.

However, the PureDyne download is an ISO file, which I believe is a CD mirror. In my case, WinRar just unzipped it out into a few files and directories.

But, putting these onto a stick and trying to boot off that does now work.

How should I go about this correctly?

Keep well all ~ Shankar

I find that [hidin] recognizes only a few of the switches, and neither of the levers, of a cheap generic game-controller that I plugged into PD, under Win-XP.

Is this normal, or should I try a 'better' game-controller? Alternatively, is there a better way to go about this?

Thanks in advance for any guidance along these lines.

And, keep well all ~ Shankar

Hello all.

I can't create [hid] or [hid~]

Win-XP
Pd version 0.40.3-extended-20080721

Is there anything else by which I can use a game-controller with Pd?

Have I asked this question here before? I seem to remember getting at least the button values in some time ago, possibly on an earlier Pd.

Thanks, and keep well all ~ Shankar

'Lo again all,

So, what's the deal on folks using ASIO drivers other than, for example, the default "Microsoft Sound-Mapper" in Win-XP?

If it matters, which are the "best" such ASIO drivers to go with?

Keep well all ~ Shankar

Hello All,

I can't figure out how to apply the standard 'Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth' as my default midi-output device in Pd (Win-xp || Pd version 0.40.3-extended-20080721).

That means I have to set this every time I start Pd and want midi sound, which of course I forget about more often that not. And, I know that this was/is not the case with my older laptop (similar Win-xp and Pd).

Any ideas?

Apologies in advance if I am missing something obvious.

Keep well ~ Shankar

Hello all.

I finally got down to checking out the lovely grid object by unsuccessfully trying to get Lwimsett's "Sudden Motion Sensor" to work for me ~ http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-2636-apple-sudden-motion-sensor

And so, I accidentally bumbled me way down to this marvellously mad little fellow.

Stuff happens~;o)

Goes great with Obiwannabe's Jazzman drummer, once you sort of match up settings between the two.

But, I wonder whether anyone might like to lend the little guy some more versatility.

Keep well ~ Shankar

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/AutoBass-Test-March-2009.pd

Hello All,

Did a minor performance last weekend, wherein one of the things I tried was to:

a. launch a messy conglomeration of patches
and then,
b. *drop-down the Pd window*, to shift over to Midivid for awhile to play out some images *via projector*

Which is all something I have done before.

This time though, when I brought up the Pd window, everything in my "patch" was sort scrunched up towards the upper left-hand side of the screen,.. and absolutely frozen in regard to being able to bang or tweak anything, even though the whole mess kept on playing just fine.

I'm pretty sure that this had to do with the projector, probably in combination with my dropping-down the Pd window.

But of course, if possible, I'd love to know precisely what the problem might have been.

Any ideas / guidance?

Windows XP + Pd version 0.40.3-extended-20080721

For the record: the rest of the performance went off great, including a wee bit of jiggery-pokery with Marco Donnarumma's lovely C::NTR::L, which worked like a charm.

Keep well all ~ Shankar

The attachment below is an example file to go with the discussion thread at http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-2372-strip-controller-ideas-anyone

Basically, it is me sort of "playing" a homemade interface that I have outlined in that thread,.... with a bit of hardware & software signal-processing.

Haven't worked with the finished device for more than a total of perhaps 1-2 hours so far, so please do excuse the ineptness,..

... and keep well all ~ Shankar

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/MuSeekh-Dec16-2008-02000c.mp3

Hello all,

I want to use 8 *unusually long* touch controllers with Pd, via a simple midi-board that I made a couple years ago, and am fishing here for ideas and advice in regard to such controllers/potentiometers.

This is simply about trying to build a more visually-performative/theatrical element into an "instrument", so as to visually sort of amplify the otherwise nearly-invisible-to-the-audience twiddlings of standard linear and rotary pots in a performance. And, the greater potential for "precision" over the greater length would of course be a nice extra.

The catch is that the longest touch pots that I can find online are "membrane pots", up to a maximum length of just 500mm, which is no significant breakthrough length for my purpose (http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8681). And, in any case, these cost about $27 apiece, which should be outrageous by any standards anywhere in the world, and is certainly very much so for me here in India, where a standard pot costs just about 10 cents,.. and $27 could hire me a strong-arm-lad for as long as a week or more!

And so, I wonder whether anyone can guide me on how to simply devise long pots for myself, each say about a meter long.

From an earlier thread that I read on this forum quite sometime ago, I do remember that a length of some sorts of video-tape can serve as the resistance material for a long pot. BUT, that is too fragile a material/coating for me to really bother trying for an instrument that would be meant to be actually playable for a long time, rather than just tried/demonstrated a few times.

I'd be grateful to have any thoughts and guidance on this.

Thanks, and keep well all ~ Shankar

Hello all,

(still a nooob as always and forever, as you see~:o)

I wonder how one triggers radio buttons and bars with an external controller, or keyboard, given that there's never any inlet via which to bang 'em.

And, why's there no inlet anyway?

Thank you in advance for any help in this regard, and also for all of the ongoing education that I manage to pick up on my visits.

Keep well all ~ Shankar

Dear Friends in the Pd Forum,

We are delighted to report that The 4th annual Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC

2009. is scheduled to be held February 27 to March 1, 2009 (a
      Friday-Saturday-Sunday in springtime/late-winter, as usual) , in the sylvan
      spaces of Sattal Estate, just above Bhimtal, near Nainital, in the Lower
      Kumaon of the new Himalayan Indian state of Uttarakhand.

A basic webpage on this has now been posted up at
http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec09/index.htm, with just a few images and
overviews of location, venue(s), and also some participant-accommodation,
for planning and general information. Links are provided to the iterations
of 2006-07-08, but the 2009 site itself will be fully updated only just
before, and then just after, the actual incident.

As you'd expect, this migration of The Carnival of e-Creativity has come
about as a result of given circumstances and several months of consultations
with advisors, trustees, past-participants, partners and others, all over
the world.

Sattal was eventually deemed to be the best option out of the 4 outstanding
alternatives that were before us from around India, including Delhi itself,
on account of its immediate promise and also its longer term potential.

As CeC looks to progress into the future, it cannot constructively do so on
an ad hoc year-to-year basis. And, the potential to actually connect with a
lively local community on an ongoing basis, as opposed to featuring once a
year in the unending lists of entertainments and diversions of a
market-driven metropolis, goes a long way towards achieving our broad
general intent that the incident should be *meaningful* to society at large,
rather than to just the participants and some small random coteries.

However, participants will find that the opportunity for networking and
working amongst themselves as well as with select local practitioners, which
emerged to be one of the most beautiful aspects of this incident in the
past, is something that will be stronger in the new situation.

It therefore gives us immense pleasure and satisfaction that the Sattal
Estate was in fact the very first venue we had thought of, and even explored
as a possibility, 3-4 years ago.

Nonetheless, we are very specially grateful to India International Centre
and our past participants in Delhi, for having unstintingly and
enthusiastically given us the three years of robust momentum and credibility
upon which we can now so confidently build this huge, and possibly-risky,
move.

Yes, there are "downsides" ~ for example, it will be cold, and living
conditions inside the cottages are very austere; some potential participants
and partners will prefer city options, for various reasons; others will just
not have the extra time for the extra travel; and so on.

On the upside ~ we can have bonfires, even crowd up in the better cottages
to get cozy; no one will feel alone amongst millions; there are all sorts of
good reasons and lovely nearby places that could make one want to actually
spend more time here; and so on.

What do you think?

We look forward to having your goodwill, association, support, participant
and content, in CeC 2009 and onwards.

Keep well ~ Shankar

Shankar Barua
Managing Trustee ~ The Academy of e-Arts
.... presently at:
The 2nd Last Resort, on The Chill Street
near Nal Damyanti Tal / Sattal
Bhimtal (Uttarakhand) - 236136
INDIA

tel: (91-5942) 247598, mobile: (91) 9868732876, or 9837667355

Hello All,

My "Pd version 0.39.2-extended-test7" seems not to have the [hid] object.

Do I need to upgrade, or is there a workaround?

(edit) I'm on Win XP

Thanks and keep well all ~ Shankar