[PD] New "fast-forward" message

Alexandre Torres Porres porres at gmail.com
Mon Aug 17 09:45:42 CEST 2020


I'm having so much fun, thanks!

working on a "batch record" abstraction now :)

I'm only now frustrated I can't batch record myself playing live, for like,
5 minutes... maybe Miller will figure out a way of doing so in 0.52 :)

Em dom., 16 de ago. de 2020 às 21:54, Christof Ressi <info at christofressi.com>
escreveu:

> Hey,
>
> but I still needed an example to see how to make this happen :)
>
> Attached you find a simple example for recording N ms of sound to disk.
>
> that's used n the help file of [samplerate~] but I agree it should also be
> included in this new documentaton section. Anyway, what else would you use
> it for?
>
> It's useful for preventing "angry vline~s": if you accidentally keep
> sending messaes to a [vline~] while DSP is off, it will eventually bring Pd
> to its knees. The solution is to use a [spigot] which is opened on
> "pd-dsp-started" and closed on "pd-dsp-stopped".
>
> Actually, the issue should be mentioned in vline~-help.pd, together with
> the possible solution.
>
> Christof
> On 17.08.2020 02:25, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
>
> On 16.08.2020 05:52, Miller Puckette via Pd-list wrote:
>> > An artificial example (for simplicity) - I want to apply a Pd effect to
>> a
>> > soundfile and write the result out to another file, without having to
>> wait
>> > for the length of the file to get the result.  This could be done from
>> the
>> > command line using a batch command, but while you're developing the
>> patch to
>> > do it it's much easier to be able to set the process off with a button
>> from
>> > inside Pd.
>>
>
> Great, kind of what I was expecting, but I still needed an example to see
> how to make this happen :)
>
> Em dom., 16 de ago. de 2020 às 08:16, Christof Ressi <
> info at christofressi.com> escreveu:
>
>> My use case was that I had a patch which either produced some generative
>> music or processed some soundfile and I wanted to record N seconds as
>> fast as possible. It's basically like the render function in a DAW
>> (usually you don't have to start the DAW from the command line to render
>> your project :-).
>>
>
> I also thought about that and I'm really excited to test both things.
> Hopefully I can have an example of this in my tutorial rght now and release
> an update. But my attempts here failed and froze Pd :)
>
> Have you already messed with it, Christof?
>
>
>> But I agree that this needs to documented. Generally, there should be a
>> section to document all (public) Pd messages, like [pd dsp(, [pd quit(,
>> etc. (What can be considered "public"?)
>>
>
> I opened an issue for that (
> https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/issues/1125 ) and can take care of
> it as I'm usually handling documentation issues.
>
>
>> Also [r pd-dsp-started] and [r pd-dsp-stopped], which most people don't
>> know about, I guess.
>>
>
> that's used n the help file of [samplerate~] but I agree it should also be
> included in this new documentaton section. Anyway, what else would you use
> it for?
>
> Porres
>
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