[PD] Pd as sound editor (issue with "scrolling" a table) ??

[Jonathan Wilkes]

On 03/03/2014 02:44 AM, Billy Stiltner wrote:
> seems like there was something about the way i made the wave editor 
> that worked,i  never tried overflowing the the things and my method is 
> a hack of the pd file @xensynth and the lfo editor, otherwise holler 
> at Mike Booth ala mmb.

You can make a wave editor.  You just cannot make a wave editor that has 
the tools typically found in commercial wave editors, unless you 
systematically ignore the modern/sophisticated GUI systems which make 
commercial wave editors efficient to use.

-Jonahan

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> https://archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3A%22billy.stiltner%40gmail.com%22&sort=-publicdate 
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> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Pierre Massat <pimassat at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pimassat at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Jonathan,
>
>     I found it following this path : help for [tabwrite] --> More_Info
>     --> all_about_arrays --> Common uses for arrays in Pd
>     Bummer, I thought somebody would come up with a secret table
>     manipulation technique that would make this statement true...
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Pierre.
>
>
>     2014-03-02 19:33 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com
>     <mailto:jancsika at yahoo.com>>:
>
>         From that help patch:
>         #X text 12 115 HELP_PATCH_AUTHORS Updated for Pd 0.38-2.
>         Jonathan Wilkes
>         revised the patch to conform to the PDDP template for Pd
>         version 0.42.
>
>         I did the refactoring of that patch, but I'm not sure who
>         wrote what you're quoting.
>
>         I'd say that statement is false and should be removed.
>
>         -Jonathan
>
>
>         On Sunday, March 2, 2014 10:47 AM, Pierre Massat
>         <pimassat at gmail.com <mailto:pimassat at gmail.com>> wrote:
>         Dear list,
>
>         I am working on a small patch which stores simple events in a
>         table to trigger sounds later on.
>         I would like to be able to edit the content of my table
>         easily, which requires scrolling it, zooming in, and
>         eventually editing the content.
>
>         I have found away of scrolling the content, but it is very
>         slow with relatively big tables (hem, even with a table with
>         20 000 samples...). Please see the example attached.
>
>         I have 2 questions :
>         1) Is there a more efficient way of doing this ? Copying only
>         part of the content is worse (i've tried).
>         2) Can I prevent the content of the table from spilling over
>         the table to right of the left ? I get the same behaviour in a
>         GOP, and putting a canvas next to the table to cover it
>         doesn't work because the table content gets redrawn on top of it.
>
>         This leads me to a more general question about something i've
>         found in the help :
>         "5 Wave editing: with proper manipulation of array data, Pd
>         can be fully functional wave editor, complete with
>         mouse-clickable cut-n-paste, pitch-shift, time expansion,
>         down/upsampling, and other tools typically found in commercial
>         wave editors."
>         This has always sounded very appealing to me, but i wonder how
>         realistic this statement is... unless i'm ignoring 80 % of
>         what can be done with tables in Pd.
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Pierre.
>
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