Bryony

I can't seem to find any reasonable way of finding out the frequency of a signal. I've toyed with fft~ amongst other things but can't seem to get anything working, I feel like there should be some simple command that just says "tell me the frequency of this"... is there?!

frequency-of-an-input-signal

First, determining the frequency of an arbitrarily complex signal is by no means an easy or obvious thing to do.

There isn't a vanilla Max object that does this currently, but you can always check the site www.maxobjects.com if you'd like to check on the availablility of NOT ONLY the standard Max/MSP/Jitter objects, but any objects written by other people. As a nice introduction, go there and type... um... "pitch tracker" into the box.

The site is a very useful resource for this particular kind of question, to say nothing of having a quicker turnaround time than form queries.

There isn't a vanilla Max object that does this currently, but you can always check the site www.maxobjects.com if you'd like to check on the availablility of NOT ONLY the standard Max/MSP/Jitter objects, but any objects written by other people. As a nice introduction, go there and type... um... "pitch tracker" into the box.  

The site is a very useful resource for this particular kind of question, to say nothing of having a quicker turnaround time than form queries.


(same reserve about "the frequency of an input signal", that would need to be defined more precisely)

One of the most widely used objects is [fiddle~].

(same reserve about "the frequency of an input signal", that would need to be defined more precisely)
One of the most widely used objects is [fiddle~].
J-F.


I couldn't get fiddle~ working on my machine (intel Mac) but I found a pitch tracker which does just what I needed it to, thank you for your help 

http://crca.ucsd.edu/%7etapel/software.html

I advised fiddle~ because I thought it was an external susceptible to be easily converted to new formats if necessary, and easily transfered to other platforms (PC), especially since the source is available. Looks like I was wrong.

So, the universal binary on there: http://crca.ucsd.edu/%7etapel/software.html doesn't work on intel?
I advised fiddle~ because I thought it was an external susceptible to be easily converted to new formats if necessary, and easily transfered to other platforms (PC), especially since the source is available. Looks like I was wrong.
J-F.


well there may be a way of getting it to work, but I was at it for a good few hours trying to make it work - I'm not a computer genius though, and as you can tell I'm quite new with Max/MSP so it's possible I was doing something wrong, but it had an intel version that was for Max 4.6, and a Mac version for PowerPC processors, so I decided that was probably the problem!

Frequency of an input signal?