[PD] pd newbie: csound gen subroutines in pd?

ssC _ alicedee25 at hotmail.com
Tue May 27 11:15:01 CEST 2003


>From: Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org>
>
>>ssC _ hat gesagt: // ssC _ wrote:
>
> > i am quite new to PD...this is my first post to the pd-list.
> >
> > question for anyone who knows CSound as well as PD:
> >
> > i am wondering if someone could explain the equivalent in PD to the
> > f-tables and GEN subroutines in CSound.
> > from what i understand, an f-table is an array of floating point values
> > generated by the various GEN routines and then subsequently accessed by 
>a
> > variety of opcodes in the .orc file.
>
>f-tables are just "table" or "array" objects in Pd. You get a whole
>bunch of tabwrite, tabread and so on opcodes in Pd, as well.
>
>The only gen-routine, that is built into Pd is called "(co)sinesum". See
>the example in doc/2.control.examples/15.array.pd
>
>For more of the classic Gen-functions you need to look into external
>collections. PeRColate has several of them, and I think, vasp as well.
>
>It also might be a good exercise to try to recreate them as pure
>abstractions. ;)
>
>ciao
>--
>  Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__
>
>
>>From: Krzysztof Czaja <czaja at chopin.edu.pl>
>
>hi,
>
>there is an old vex external, too.  This one computes any gen of
>the saol set:  harm, harm_phase, periodic, buzz, step, lineseg,
>expseg, spline, cubicseg, sample, empty, data, polynomial, concat,
>random, window.  It has options for guard points to be observed,
>operations to be restricted to an array's subrange, resizing,
>normalizing, etc.
>
>Krzysztof
>


ok

thank you very much for your answers. this should help me alot.
hope i can figure it all out:)

cheers...ssC

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