[PD-announce] cyclone-0.1-alpha1

[Krzysztof Czaja]

hi all,

the max/msp compatibility library for Pd, cyclone, has entered an
alpha testing phase of its 0.1 version.  It is vailable at

http://suita.chopin.edu.pl/~czaja/miXed/externs/cyclone.html

Cyclone has two parts.  The 'hammer' contains max clones,
currently these:  accum, active, anal, Append, bangbang, bondo,
Borax, Bucket, buddy, capture, Clip, coll, counter, cycle, decide,
Decode, drunk, flush, forward, fromsymbol, funbuff, funnel, gate,
grab, Histo, iter, match, mean, midiflush, midiformat, midiparse,
mousefilter, MouseState, next, offer, onebang, past, prepend,
prob, pv, speedlim, spell, split, spray, sprintf, substitute,
sustain, switch, thresh, TogEdge, tosymbol, universal, urn, Uzi,
xbendin, xbendin2, xbendout, xbendout2, xnotein, and xnoteout.
With minor exceptions these are full-featured clones of max 4.0
classes.

The msp part, 'sickle', has been only barely started, and is left
for the next versions to come.  Currently, there is linedrive,
allpass~, comb~ count~, delay~, index~, lookup~, peek~, play~,
rand~, record~, and wave~.

This is very much an alpha release, to be used by fellow coders,
or the very brave of all Pdiers.  It is known to crash or behave
wildly.

Besides, as you may imagine, checking for all _actual_ features of
a max class, its misfeatures and bugs, takes so much time, and it
is so boring...  I have already made many such tests in max (they
are all logged in the source), but many more are still needed.
Help.

And, to tell the truth... since max patches are usually quite
gui-heavy, there is still a long, long way before importing them
into Pd will be an easy task...

Krzysztof

Btw, anybody willing to start making a jMax port?