Thank you Simon, that was great! I love your idea of making lofi percussion sounds with this. I'm kindly putting in a request to see an explanation of that patch you showed at the end :)
Looking forward to trying this maybe on my raspberry pi. Just an FYI with all the crazy data you can get file with lots of DC offset, I filtered that out and they sound a bit better to my ears!
Yes! I haven't tried any of this out on Raspberry Pi yet, but it should work. I'd love to see/hear how it works. And yes, too, to the DC offset. Throwing on a high-pass filter can help with that, but perhaps there are some databending purists out there who will tell me that's cheating...
Thanks for always making great videos! Question: You are getting a good variety of sounds/frequencies from the files you import, it seems like. I've tried a lot of different file types/sizes with this patch and am getting 99% noise almost every time. My array visualizer looks totally different, too, mostly white background with many tiny specks. I've played with .js, .html, .wav, .mp3, .mov, .mp4, .jpg, and some others. Do you have any idea why I'm not getting much variability? Thanks 🙏
Hmmm. I haven't tried all of those formats, but I know jpgs just sound like white noise most of the time. A lot of those formats you list are similar in the fact that they're compressed data (e.g. mp3, mp4, mov). Have you tried .png files? .exe files? Photoshop files?
I get this weird error when clicking on the read message: usage: read [flags] filename [tablename]... What's this about? It plays just like in the video... the table shows the data points etc. Thx!
Hmmm. I made this video two years ago, so it's hard to say. It all works on my machine at the moment. Did you double check the syntax of the "read" message? There's lots of opportunities for a typo there.
I haven't done any video stuff with Pd, but I see people who do. I haven't looked into it, so I don't know if they're doing it with external objects or if they're sending data from Pd to another program. But, to my knowledge, there's no direct video stuff in Pd Vanilla.
