[PD] Real Time Composition Library

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Wed Aug 9 16:06:22 CEST 2006


Hallo,

I have mailed Karlheinz about this now and he did reply. He thinks
it's a great idea and we should keep him informed on the progress of
porting RTC-lib to Pd, so that he can put a link to it on his website
as well. 

Ciao
-- 
Frank

David Powers hat gesagt: // David Powers wrote:

> Hmmm, well to be honest, I use PD-extended on WinXP, and cyclone has always
> been broken. Nobody ever seemed to respond with any idea why it doesn't
> work. However, I'm going to do some new tests because things may be fixed
> since I checked last. I'll test your ojects also.
> 
> What is the legal status of a program that mimics another programs
> functions, but does not copy any of the actual source code or guts? I
> suppose in this case, asking permission would be a simple courtesy? Some of
> the objects are (c) Essl, but I was thinking more along the lines of a
> clone.
> 
> However, even so, it would be nice to get Essl's permission/interest because
> perhaps he would put a link on his site. He makes some great music.
> 
> I see you were going to use the actual max patches, I've never tried to load
> a max patch in PD. That wasn't my plan, but if we can do that, even better I
> guess. I'm sure then we WOULD definitely want permission.
> 
> ~David
> 
> On 8/8/06, Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:
> >
> >Hallo,
> >David Powers hat gesagt: // David Powers wrote:
> >
> >> I recently came across RTC-lib for Max here:
> >> http://www.essl.at/works/rtc.html
> >>
> >> I thought that it would be great to make a similar library for PD,
> >perhaps
> >> even mimicing some of the functionality of those objects, only using PD
> >> objects.
> >
> >I started porting RTC to Pd already, but lost track of it after one
> >afternoon. It's actually not hard to do:
> >
> >You use [cyclone] to import the Max patches by starting "pd -lib
> >cyclone", creating a [cyclone] object and clicking on it.
> >
> >Thein you clone the missing objects, several of which are already done
> >in [list]-abs, so you can just create wrapper abstractions using the
> >names they have in RTC-lib. The missing objects then need to be
> >patched by hand, some are also available as externals.
> >
> >Attached is the small handful of patches I already did (prepent.pd is
> >missing, it's just [list prepend $1]---[list trim])
> >
> >I think, one should also ask Karlheinz Essl for permission to do this
> >in the end, though I guess he won't mind.
> >
> >Ciao
> >--
> >Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
> >
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