[PD] Preset management for Pd Vanilla

Ico Bukvic ico at vt.edu
Mon Nov 13 20:24:26 CET 2023 

So, Pd-L2Ork does ship with SDL library but was built on a newer OSX that
does not support older OS versions. If you upgrade your OS to 11.x or
newer, it should work just fine.

Does anyone else have this issue?

Best,

Ico

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On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 8:52 AM Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu> wrote:

> Interesting. Will investigate. Thanks.
>
> Best,
>
> Ico
>
> --
> Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
> Director, Creativity + Innovation
> Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology
>
> Virginia Tech
> Creative Technologies in Music
> School of Performing Arts – 0141
> Blacksburg, VA 24061
> (540) 231-6139
> ico at vt.edu
>
> ci.icat.vt.edu
> l2ork.icat.vt.edu
> ico.bukvic.net
>
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 08:32 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> this [image: Screen Shot 2023-11-12 at 10.31.08.png]
>>
>> Em dom., 12 de nov. de 2023 às 09:40, Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu> escreveu:
>>
>>> So, what happens when you get to run Pd-L2Ork on 10.14?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Ico
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
>>> Director, Creativity + Innovation
>>> Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology
>>>
>>> Virginia Tech
>>> Creative Technologies in Music
>>> School of Performing Arts – 0141
>>> Blacksburg, VA 24061
>>> (540) 231-6139
>>> ico at vt.edu
>>>
>>> ci.icat.vt.edu
>>> l2ork.icat.vt.edu
>>> ico.bukvic.net
>>>
>>> On Sun, Nov 12, 2023, 00:29 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah, sure, thanks, it's definitely worth looking since you already
>>>> have it working and all. I'm all up for it of course. BTW, I cannot run the
>>>> latest pd-l2ork on my 10.14.6 macOS, but I'm having a look at Purr Data to
>>>> remember how it rolls... I was never able to really fully understand it.
>>>>
>>>> Let me see if I have the slightest idea correctly. It seems you have
>>>> [preset_hub] that manages (stores and recalls) presets. And you have the
>>>> [preset_node] object that connects to GUIs and things you want to store
>>>> data from. BTW, seems like a more "Vanilla like" convention would be a
>>>> single [preset] object, and you could have [preset hub] and [preset node].
>>>> Anyway, if a change to the core is needed and a whole preset system layout
>>>> is to be provided, I wonder if we could also have "preset node names" as
>>>> built in symbols in GUI objects. And it'd be great if we could also have
>>>> interpolation and morphing, with exponential curves, as in my system in
>>>> ELSE, with the [preset hub] object.
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>>
>>>> Em dom., 12 de nov. de 2023 às 01:37, Ico Bukvic <ico at vt.edu> escreveu:
>>>>
>>>>> I encourage Miller and the vanilla community to explore pd-l2ork's
>>>>> preset_hub and preset_node (see x_preset.c). It will require pd to adopt
>>>>> keeping glist consistent across various operations (cut/copy/undo/redo
>>>>> etc.). Once done, it allows for presetting of individual objects through
>>>>> various contexts that are both embeddable in the patch or can be saved into
>>>>> a file. Most importantly, this mechanism is able to distinguish between
>>>>> multiple instances of the same abstraction.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>
>>>>> Ico
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
>>>>> Director, Creativity + Innovation
>>>>> Director, Human-Centered Design iPhD
>>>>> Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology
>>>>>
>>>>> Virginia Tech
>>>>> Creative Technologies in Music
>>>>> School of Performing Arts – 0141
>>>>> Blacksburg, VA 24061
>>>>> (540) 231-6139
>>>>> ico at vt.edu
>>>>>
>>>>> ci.icat.vt.edu
>>>>> l2ork.icat.vt.edu
>>>>> ico.bukvic.net
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 7:58 PM Alexandre Torres Porres <
>>>>> porres at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Em sáb., 11 de nov. de 2023 às 16:11, Alexandre Torres Porres <
>>>>>> porres at gmail.com> escreveu:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Or yet a new functionality for [pdcontrol] if not in [send] or a
>>>>>>> whole new object
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A "retrieve" method to [value] would actually make sense.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyway, I'm giving ideas and most probably most of you don't really
>>>>>> know about my preset system in ELSE in detail. The key element is
>>>>>> [savestate], which saves the data in a patch, which are values and receive
>>>>>> destinations. So I'm not thinking of another object for preset management,
>>>>>> just using this existing one for that, as a side product. The data is saved
>>>>>> in a [text] object, which is the best plase to store such a thing and it's
>>>>>> the 2nd key element per se.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The "retrieve" function is to "grab" the data from objects connected
>>>>>> or bound to existing "receive" objects/symbols. This makes things much
>>>>>> easier and I hope things are clearer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [value] seems now like a good candidate for this functionality. It
>>>>>> would require the injection of a lot of code for this, but maybe that's ok,
>>>>>> not sure if this is a good reason to create a whole new object. And it fits
>>>>>> into the idea of [value], which can already send a value to another object,
>>>>>> so why can't it also 'grab'/'retrieve'?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And also, the external abstraction that I mentioned could also be
>>>>>> part of the 'extra' library that comes with the Pd distribution, which
>>>>>> already has some abstractions anyway. While we're at it, I was already
>>>>>> hoping to include yet another abstraction there, a biquad coefficient
>>>>>> calculator for the [biquad~] object.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cheers
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 at 16:08 Alexandre Torres Porres <
>>>>>>> porres at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Else’s has morphing, interpolation, etc and is an abstraction that
>>>>>>>> uses [savestate] and [text] mainly.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It also relies on an external, [retrieve], similar to [grab] from
>>>>>>>> MAX. This one gets data from objects connected to named [receive] objects.
>>>>>>>> One could make a vanilla version without it, but it’d be much more
>>>>>>>> complicated. Or we could have a new [grab] / [retrieve] like object in
>>>>>>>> Vanilla, and I could build a Vanilla external abstraction and bring my
>>>>>>>> system to vanilla like that.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We maybe don’t even need a new object and could have something like
>>>>>>>> an extra functionality in [send] where it can get things back. I think some
>>>>>>>> net objects work like that and it would hopefully not be too weird or
>>>>>>>> crazy, and maybe people would likewise abuse this for other use cases.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Seems like a very not much intrusive addition that opens the door
>>>>>>>> for this. What do you people think?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sat, 11 Nov 2023 at 08:39 KHM t.hartmann <t.hartmann at khm.de>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> +1 as well, for a native preset system.
>>>>>>>>> Best would be the possibility for interpolation between values in
>>>>>>>>> various ways, from jump to customisable interpolation curves.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> __________________________________________
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Am 11.11.2023 um 12:02 schrieb hans w. koch <hansw.koch at gmail.com
>>>>>>>>> >:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> +1 for a native preset system. thats the one thing i miss
>>>>>>>>> thinking back of the times i used max/msp (particularily the morphing
>>>>>>>>> feature).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> advantage over else: it can then be used in PdParty e.g. :-)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> cheers
>>>>>>>>> hans
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Am 11.11.2023 um 06:47 schrieb Alexandre Torres Porres <
>>>>>>>>> porres at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm revisiting this. I'm proud of my presets system in ELSE but I
>>>>>>>>> think Pd needs something natively. What do you people think and say?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> cheers
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Em sex., 22 de jan. de 2021 às 14:27, Alexandre Torres Porres <
>>>>>>>>> porres at gmail.com> escreveu:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Em sex., 22 de jan. de 2021 às 01:35, Alexandre Torres Porres <
>>>>>>>>> porres at gmail.com> escreveu:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> There's the "morphing" or "interpolation" thing that I may be
>>>>>>>>> still neglecting and thinking that using things "line" objects is just as
>>>>>>>>> fine, but let's see. I'll also look into how max does interpolation,
>>>>>>>>> someone already told me that, I think I have an idea for that too.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I neglected the fact that [line] doesn't work with lists :) so I
>>>>>>>>> created an object that does it called [morph]. Hence, this takes care of
>>>>>>>>> preset transitions. I don't think it's necessary to put this feature inside
>>>>>>>>> the preset object as it makes it more complicated and in the end it's good
>>>>>>>>> this is a separate object as it's also useful outside the preset system and
>>>>>>>>> can be used on its own to morph into different arrays and stuff.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm doing something similar for interpolation, with another object
>>>>>>>>> to allow one to manually interpolate between values and lists of values,
>>>>>>>>> also incorporating that feature from Max. This should all be up in my
>>>>>>>>> repository this weeked.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> cheers
>>>>>>>>>
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