[PD] PD panner

[Pagano, Patrick]

Thanks again frank, I have used a mutated version of this patch for the Quad pans that will fire off when the mocap people share an event
Thanks for the suggestion

pp

-----Original Message-----
From: pd-list-bounces at iem.at [mailto:pd-list-bounces at iem.at] On Behalf Of Frank Barknecht
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [PD] PD panner

Hi Pat,

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 06:32:39PM -0400, Pagano, Patrick wrote:
> I was wondering if someone has a multi channel sound panner that I can 
> test with pd. I want to have 4 separate sounds [MONO] be panned to 
> differing channels in pd from channel 1->2 2->3 3->1 etc on a simple envelope line.

Attached is a little abstraction that I sometimes use to simply pan over multiple speakers. It's an extension to the usual cosine-based panning for stereo, but made for more than two speakers. Sorry for the help file that's not up to my usual standards. :)

Anyway the [cospan] object has to be created with two arguments: The second one gives the number of panning steps or segments (i.e. the total number of speakers minus 1), the first one indexes the speaker. 

So for four speakers, create these objects:

[cospan 0 3]
[cospan 1 3]
[cospan 2 3]
[cospan 3 3]

then send the position as a number between 0 and 360. You can also change the width or spikiness by sending to the global receiver [s COSPAN-WIDTH]. Its value is used a a [pow] exponent. The output of [cospan] at the first outlet is between 0 and 1. The second outlet generates messages suitable for [mtx_mul~].

Ciao
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