[PD-dev] recording the overall state of a patch

Forwinder forward at forwind.net
Mon Aug 18 14:09:27 CEST 2008


Cheers Guys for the suggestions.
Will do some investigation.

Conor


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>Message: 1
>Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:16:13 +0100
>From: forwind <forward at forwind.net>
>Subject: [PD-dev] recording the overall state of a patch
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>Hello Everybody,
>
>Apologies if this is not the correct place to post this but could
>someone point me towards ways to record/save the overall state of a
>patch. What solutions do people generally use ? I was considering
>writing something in python which would save/recall a patch's state via
>OSC. Each patch would have to define an 'API' to facilitate this but
>would work well considering hooking up python and pd via OSC is pretty
>straight forward using something like pickle to serialize/deserialize a
>patches state.
>
>Best regards
>Conor
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>Message: 2
>Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:04:12 +0100
>From: Claude Heiland-Allen <claudiusmaximus at goto10.org>
>Subject: Re: [PD-dev] recording the overall state of a patch
>To: forward at forwind.net
>Cc: pd-dev at iem.at
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>forwind wrote:
>> Hello Everybody,
>>
>> Apologies if this is not the correct place to post this but could
>> someone point me towards ways to record/save the overall state of a
>> patch.
>
>http://lists.puredata.info/search/PD-list?query=state+saving
>
> > What solutions do people generally use ?
>
>sssad appears to be popular
>memento/rradical was also popular, not sure what the current status is
>netpd has a distributed state saving/propagation system
>
> > I was considering
>> writing something in python which would save/recall a patch's state via
>> OSC.
>
>seems over complicated and rather tricky to synchronise (lots of
>possible race conditions i can imagine..)
>
> > Each patch would have to define an 'API' to facilitate this but
>> would work well considering hooking up python and pd via OSC is pretty
>> straight forward using something like pickle to serialize/deserialize a
>> patches state.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Conor
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>Message: 3
>Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:42:27 -0400
>From: patrick <puredata at 11h11.com>
>Subject: Re: [PD-dev] recording the overall state of a patch
>To: PD-List <pd-list at iem.at>
>Cc: pd-dev at iem.at
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>hi,
>
>pdmtl abstractions have a solution for state-saving, auto-gui creation,
>midi mapping, osc mapping. you need to install pdmtl abstractions, add
>it to your path and open 1.browser.pd
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>http://www.workinprogress.ca/pd/pdmtl/browser.ogg (theora video (vlc))
>http://wikifarm.koumbit.net/dataflow/PdMtlAbstractions
>
>
>pat
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>forwind wrote:
>> Hello Everybody,
>>
>> Apologies if this is not the correct place to post this but could
>> someone point me towards ways to record/save the overall state of a
>> patch. What solutions do people generally use ? I was considering
>> writing something in python which would save/recall a patch's state via
>> OSC. Each patch would have to define an 'API' to facilitate this but
>> would work well considering hooking up python and pd via OSC is pretty
>> straight forward using something like pickle to serialize/deserialize a
>> patches state.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Conor
>>
>>
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>Message: 4
>Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:28:49 +0200
>From: Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org>
>Subject: Re: [PD-dev] recording the overall state of a patch
>To: pd-dev at iem.at
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>Hallo,
>Claude Heiland-Allen hat gesagt: // Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:
>
>> forwind wrote:
>> >
>> > Apologies if this is not the correct place to post this but could
>> > someone point me towards ways to record/save the overall state of a
>> > patch.
>>
>> http://lists.puredata.info/search/PD-list?query=state+saving
>>
>>  > What solutions do people generally use ?
>>
>> sssad appears to be popular
>> memento/rradical was also popular, not sure what the current status is
>
>I still use Memento, as I'm used to it, but for new users I would rather
>recommend sssad, as it's much easier to install, has most of
>Memento's features now, doesn't require any externals, has a clean
>patching style etc.
>
>Yesterday I posted a complete example that shows how easy it can be to
>convert a patch to use sssad:
>http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2008-08/064547.html
>
>Ciao
>--
>Frank
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