sam kf

I'm about to try and port a Pd patch made by my flatmate in pure data into MaxMSP.

Anyone got any advice on the best way to go about this?

Should I go through the patch and try to copy all of it's workings, or would it be better just to copy the functionality of the patch?

Hi.
I'm about to try and port a Pd patch made by my flatmate in pure data into MaxMSP.
Anyone got any advice on the best way to go about this?
Should I go through the patch and try to copy all of it's workings, or would it be better just to copy the functionality of the patch?
Cheers.
K


porting-a-pd-patch

when i did that, i saved the pd file as a .pat, which made the textfile have a max header at the top. in incomplete one, so you might want to open your file as text in max and copy the generic lines off the top of another max file (it's something with the screenposition of the window, i think). alternatively, you could select & copy all into a new patch.

a lot of objects will translate fine, and a lot won't. things like [gate] being the other way around and [spigot] not existing are easy to fix, as soon as you're working with [array]s versus [buffer]s i think it gets a bit more complicated.

Quote: mister k wrote on Mon, 07 April 2008 18:10

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> I'm about to try and port a Pd patch made by my flatmate in pure data into MaxMSP.

> Anyone got any advice on the best way to go about this?

> Should I go through the patch and try to copy all of it's workings, or would it be better just to copy the functionality of the patch?

when i did that, i saved the pd file as a .pat, which made the textfile have a max header at the top. in incomplete one, so you might want to open your file as text in max and copy the generic lines off the top of another max file (it's something with the screenposition of the window, i think). alternatively, you could select & copy all into a new patch.
a lot of objects will translate fine, and a lot won't. things like [gate] being the other way around and [spigot] not existing are easy to fix, as soon as you're working with [array]s versus [buffer]s i think it gets a bit more complicated.
good luck, 
robbert

Quote: mister k wrote on Mon, 07 April 2008 18:10
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> Hi.
> I'm about to try and port a Pd patch made by my flatmate in pure data into MaxMSP.
> Anyone got any advice on the best way to go about this?
> Should I go through the patch and try to copy all of it's workings, or would it be better just to copy the functionality of the patch?
> Cheers.
> K 
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> Should I go through the patch and try to copy all of it's workings,

> or would it be better just to copy the functionality of the patch?

This depends on two things, the complexity of the whole patch, and the 

code quality of the patch. When I go through my own ancient max patches 

I often decide to do them again from scratch for two reasons: The old 

ones had been done badly for lack of experience, or the possibilities of 

Max today would allow to do things in a much simpler and more elegant 

way. The latter will certainly apply if you port a Pd patch to Max...

In general debugging takes longer than patching. And a direct port will 

be pretty buggy as a lot of objects behave slitely different.

Have a look at my abhaXions, I have some replacements for Pd objects in 

there. Find it on the share pages of c74...

mister k schrieb:
> Should I go through the patch and try to copy all of it's workings,
> or would it be better just to copy the functionality of the patch?

This depends on two things, the complexity of the whole patch, and the 
code quality of the patch. When I go through my own ancient max patches 
I often decide to do them again from scratch for two reasons: The old 
ones had been done badly for lack of experience, or the possibilities of 
Max today would allow to do things in a much simpler and more elegant 
way. The latter will certainly apply if you port a Pd patch to Max...

In general debugging takes longer than patching. And a direct port will 
be pretty buggy as a lot of objects behave slitely different.

Have a look at my abhaXions, I have some replacements for Pd objects in 
there. Find it on the share pages of c74...

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I think it might be easiest just recreate it.

It's all in separate sub patches. I tried making them into .pat files but only one of them will open. Probably because the patch is quite complex. It's a sample based patch so I think MaxMSP doesn't like the arrays.

I'm sure I'll learn more recreating way as well!

I can upload a copy if anyone wants look...

I think it might be easiest just recreate it.
It's all in separate sub patches. I tried making them into .pat files but only one of them will open. Probably because the patch is quite complex. It's a sample based patch so I think MaxMSP doesn't like the arrays.
I'm sure I'll learn more recreating way as well!
I can upload a copy if anyone wants  look...
Cheers.


Porting a Pd patch