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

Jonathan Wilkes jancsika at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 3 23:26:01 CET 2014


On 03/03/2014 01:32 PM, Pierre Massat wrote:
> I've looked seriously at data structures for the first time, and saw 
> what Chris McCormick did with them, and I believe this is the way to go !

But you can't get notifications for mouseover or right-click events.  
You also cannot get transparency or control the z-order among multiple 
scalars.  Nor scale or zoom without creating another complex and slow 
wrapper on top of data structures.

Don't get me wrong-- you can do interesting things with scalars, and you 
can build a wave-editor that looks quite advanced compared to what a GUI 
in Pd typically looks like.  But you cannot get anything that looks 
remotely like a modern or even decade-old commercial wave-editor.

So I'd rather the documentation didn't send people searching around the 
corners of the software for features that don't exist.

-Jonathan

>
> Cheers,
>
> Pierre.
>
>
> 2014-03-03 8:44 GMT+01:00 Billy Stiltner <billy.stiltner at gmail.com 
> <mailto:billy.stiltner at gmail.com>>:
>
>     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.
>
>     https://archive.org/search.php?query=uploader%3A%22billy.stiltner%40gmail.com%22&sort=-publicdate
>
>
>
>     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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