Cycling 74 » Topic: Scaling a float? http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/feed Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:22:01 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=2.2.4 http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-64791 <![CDATA[Scaling a float?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-64791 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:28:21 +0000 Oli Mason Am I missing something easy, maybe……. as maths isn’t my strong suit!

what i want to do is take an incoming amplitude and scale the lowest and highest amplitude value to give me a number between 0-127.

Im guessing my problem is due to taking a float to an int?

I have tried the scale objects but I am getting + and – numbers which is no good!

Any help or input is appreciated.

Thanks!

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]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-233659 <![CDATA[Re: Scaling a float?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-233659 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:20:45 +0000 mzed Also, check this out as an aid for sharing patches on the forum:

How do I post Max 5 or 6 patches in the condensed format?
Watch this video for instructions: http://youtu.be/34cxCjPU_Ts

• Select the part of the patch you wish to copy
• Choose Copy Compressed from the Edit menu to copy the selected objects to the clipboard.
• Switch to your browser and paste the contents of the clipboard into your post window.

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-233660 <![CDATA[Re: Scaling a float?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-233660 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:11:34 +0000 Oli Mason Hi Guys,

Thanks for the replays,

I have tried to use the scale~ object but it gives me negative numbers an positive numbers.

any ideas whys?

– Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. –

I dont know why it didn’t post in the copy compressed format last time?!

Thanks!

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-233661 <![CDATA[Re: Scaling a float?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-233661 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:15:03 +0000 leafcutter You get a negative minimum from minmax~ because it’s measuring an audio signal which usually gives positive and negative values. Stick a scope~ on it and investigate.

What are you trying to do btw?

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-233662 <![CDATA[Re: Scaling a float?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-233662 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:28:35 +0000 n00b_meister Yes, it’s not at all clear from your patch what you’re trying to achieve or why; below is a patch using either [abs~] or [meter~] to scale amplitude to 0-127, although [meter~] is just a GUI representation of amplitude. The rightmost outlet of live.gain gives a float representing dB, which you can convert using [dbtoa] – this will give you a float between 0. and 1. Amplitude maths isn’t my strong suit either, but can you tell us where this value will then go and what it will do?

– Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. –

Brendan

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-233663 <![CDATA[Re: Scaling a float?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-233663 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:18:24 +0000 n00b_meister Are you trying perhaps to extract or determine what the min and max amplitude values of a sample are? You can view sample data in the [waveform~] object; if you need to do this in real time, then it also be posseeblay also.

Brendan

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-233664 <![CDATA[Re: Scaling a float?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-233664 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:07:25 +0000 Oli Mason Hi Brendan,

Yes you’ve got it!

I then i want to try and read thought the buffer and give each different amplitude at set intervals a color value?

then…i dont know if this is possible or not, I want to try and extract the colours to an lcd.

The general idea is to try and get a picture from a sound clip.

not sure if I’m going about it the right way, but finding outs half the fun!

Thanks,

Oli

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-233665 <![CDATA[Re: Scaling a float?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-233665 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:20:35 +0000 n00b_meister this might give you some ideas; but search over on the Jitter page too – way more fun to be had with amplitude and colour over there.

– Pasted Max Patch, click to expand. –

Brendan

]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-233666 <![CDATA[Re: Scaling a float?]]> http://cycling74.com/forums/topic/scaling-a-float/#post-233666 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:45:29 +0000 Oli Mason Thanks Brendan,

your patches have got me pointed in the right direction, and the abs~ object cures the negative number problem problem nicely!

Regards,

Oli.

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