[PD] lookup~ (was: Update cyclone maintenance)

Alexandre Torres Porres porres at gmail.com
Wed Jun 24 16:26:33 CEST 2015


great, let us know about the updates when they become available

2015-06-24 7:27 GMT-03:00 Fred Jan Kraan <fjkraan at xs4all.nl>:

> Hi Alexandre,
>
> > The help file acts as if the audio input needed to be between 0
> > and 1, but that is not true, it actually is from -1 to 1, try it
> > and you will see. That's the way it originally works in Max as
> > well, by the way.
>
> Ok, fixed.
> >
> > And now for a bug. When you specify an offset, it goes from that
> > offset point until the given boundary. But the way it is acting
> > is that it's continuing after the end of the boundary, outputing
> > silence.
>
> It isn't implemented as a boundary, but as size parameter. Pd lookup~
> tries to read from offset to offset+size. Reading past the array gets
> you zero's, as is customary in Pd.
>
> Max 5 lookup~ appears to have it implemented as an offset and a boundary
> or end-point in the array. So it reads from offset to end-point.
>
> The new version will behave like Max 5.
>
> > help also ommits you can use a set message to specify the buffer,
> > like before
>
> Ok, fixed.
>
> > one more thing: there's a first argument which is the table size, a
> > second argument which is a float for offset, and there is a THIRD
> > argument that specifies the size of the buffer and is not mentioned (if
> > it is not specified, it's 512)
>
> As I understand it, the arguments are:
> 1 - array/table name
> 2 - initial offset in array/table (default 0)
> 3 - initial end-point array/table (default 512)
>
> This is how the new help file specifies it.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Fred Jan
> >
> > 2015-06-23 20:12 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com
> > <mailto:porres at gmail.com>>:
> >
> >
> >     2015-06-23 20:07 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:porres at gmail.com>>:
> >
> >         now we need to talk about [lookup~] :)
> >
> >
> >         cheers
> >
> >         2015-06-05 3:29 GMT-03:00 Fred Jan Kraan <fjkraan at xs4all.nl
> >         <mailto:fjkraan at xs4all.nl>>:
> >
> >             Hi Alexandre,
> >
> >             Sorry, I had missed your message, most active Pd-time had
> >             gone into
> >             helping to improve the build system for cyclone and
> >             pd-externals in
> >             general.
> >
> >             The concept of hot and cold inlets appears to apply to
> >             messages, not
> >             signals. Sah~ appears to work as described in the Max5
> >             documentation.
> >             I'll improve the help-patch.
> >
> >             Consider it a good thing Pd can confuse you. It would get
> >             boring if it
> >             didn't :-).
> >
> >             Greetings,
> >
> >             Fred Jan
> >
> >
> >             On 2015-06-05 03:42 AM, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
> >             > please do not consider my previous message, I clearly had
> no idea what I
> >             > was talking about and was just really confused :) sorry
> >             >
> >             > 2015-05-26 18:12 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <
> porres at gmail.com <mailto:porres at gmail.com>
> >             > <mailto:porres at gmail.com <mailto:porres at gmail.com>>>:
> >             >
> >             >     By the way, [sah~] in Pd has the inlets switched. In
> max, the left
> >             >     one is supposed to trigger the sample and hold, unlike
> [samphold~]
> >             >     in Pd. But [sah~] is just like [samphold~]. In order
> for it to be a
> >             >     proper clone of max, that'd need to be corrected, not
> sure if it
> >             >     happened already.
> >             >
> >             >     2015-05-24 23:18 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <
> porres at gmail.com <mailto:porres at gmail.com>
> >             >     <mailto:porres at gmail.com <mailto:porres at gmail.com>>>:
> >             >
> >             >         for instance, it says "Symbol argument sets name
> of table to
> >             >         play from. Additional int argument after that sets
> sample offset
> >             >         into the table (default 0)"
> >             >
> >             >         well, I put an int argument after that, and it
> doesn't really
> >             >         work at all!
> >             >
> >             >         2015-05-24 23:05 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres
> >             >         <porres at gmail.com <mailto:porres at gmail.com>
> >             <mailto:porres at gmail.com <mailto:porres at gmail.com>>>:
> >             >
> >             >             hi fred, how's it going? I was checking
> [cycle~] and it
> >             >             seems it's not behaving much closely like in
> max, have you
> >             >             checked that? I'm saying more about its
> behaviour as a
> >             >             wavetable, where it can offsett the table and
> everything.
> >             >
> >             >             I can't find that list of bugs you were
> working on, where is
> >             >             it? How is it anyway?
> >             >
> >             >             thanks
> >             >             cheers
> >             >
> >             >             2015-01-23 14:25 GMT-02:00 Fred Jan Kraan <
> fjkraan at xs4all.nl <mailto:fjkraan at xs4all.nl>
> >             >             <mailto:fjkraan at xs4all.nl
> >             <mailto:fjkraan at xs4all.nl>>>:
> >             >
> >             >                 Hi All,
> >             >
> >             >                 At
> >             >
> http://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/digaud/puredata/cyclone/index.html
> >             >                 a new set of revised help-patches for the
> cyclone
> >             >                 library are available. Most previous
> remarks are applied.
> >             >
> >             >                 There are now previews of the Windows
> binaries and
> >             >                 MacOSX. The latter is build on MacOSX 10.5
> with XCode
> >             >                 3.14, so should have executables for PPC,
> i386 and
> >             >                 i386_64. I confirmed the last two are
> working (10.5 and
> >             >                 10.8).
> >             >
> >             >                 It remains in progress, in the task list
> are the fixed
> >             >                 and remaining issues.
> >             >
> >             >                 Fred Jan
> >             >
> >             >
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