[PD] triggering a linear ramp with a signal

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Micha Thies hat gesagt: // Micha Thies wrote:

> thanks   for  the  answer  which is quite helpful. i already thought about
> using  vline~, but didn't had a closer look at it. one reason is that i
> wanted  to  avoid  the  message  level  at  any cost, because all this
> message  timing  and  pre-microsequencing  makes  granular  synthesis
> (and basically almost everything) unnecessary complicated.
> 
> and   you're  right, rampsmooth~ is message based, this is why i wrote
> some  java external which triggers a defined ramp upon a click, all on
> the  signal level, with some extended modes. this made my life so much
> easier,  i  can't understand why such a thing isn't implemented in max
> or why there is no external doing that kind of stuff.

(Maybe we can port it to C later...)

There is a set of externals by Eric Lyon which does something similar.
He presented it at the Linux Audio Conference this year, paper and
slides are here: http://lac.zkm.de/2006/proceedings.shtml#eric_lyon

Unfortunately I think, he didn't yet find the time to properly package
and publish the code. Eric, do you copy? Is the source available
already? But you may contact Eric at eric.lyon at manchester.ac.uk

The t3-objects in Iemlib are similar, but they get their triggers from
messages, so they aren't too different from what [vline~] offers as
builtin object. 

Still personally I think, that [vline~] if used somehow like in my
example patch can be quite powerful for granular stuff, and actually I
don't think it's that complicated to use. But of course this also is a
matter of taste and of how someone is used to work. I also have a
phasor~ based granular patch I did somewhere here on this disk, which
is much more difficult to read than the [vline~] solution in my view.
At least it took me much longer to put together than the [vgrain~]
which I just quickly hacked together yesterday evening. ;)

Ciao
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