#996

Oh that’s just an escape character, so this select:3\;4\;5\;6 should work?

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#997

yea, that would work

#998

in regard to multiple cursor use, it seems that you can kind of make it work. but yeah being able to add multiple udp values into ORCA simultaniously would be awesome. It would also make the “!” cc messsage operator obsolete.
in the video you can see that the octave and note information in the midi-operator is changing using udp messages sended rapidly after one another making it somewhat possible.

maybe being able to send udp messages to ORCA on multiple channels could work? so essentially making OSC messages to console instead.

#999

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as far as I have been able to gather there is no such thing in PD. :confused:

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#1000

Try everything in one line and use backslash (not forward slash)…Screenshot_2020-04-25_20-41-59

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#1001

the line breaks happen automatically after I click outside the message… but hey! forward slashes seem to work! thank you!

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#1002

This is a forward slash: /
This is a back slash: \

Forward slash doesn’t work, back slash does, it escapes the next character, essentially “removing it’s special meaning and treating it like any other regular character”

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#1003

Thank you! yes… I’ve used my fair share of forward and backward slashes in life up to now. :slight_smile:
I am also pretty familiar with escape characters.
However it’s still not working. It escapes the ‘newline’ in the message from the semicolons but it sends the message with the forward slashes so ORCA won’t receive it. At least I think that’s the issue…

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At any rate, nothing is happening in ORCA when I send the message.

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#1004

Ok. Good luck getting it working…

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#1005

sorry, if I came across as short. I know you have no way of knowing where I’m at and I appreciate your help.
Mostly I’m finding this particular exercise frustrating but I’m still learning things and I think I might still be able to get some interesting results from what I’ve gotten to work so far.

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#1006

Do you know your way around node? Could you try this script and send PD data to it to see what Orca receives.

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#1007

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Just mocked this up and it all works for me. Hope it helps.

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#1008

Thank you so much!!!

#1009

Ok so, I have been experimenting with the semicolon thing for quite a while now. I found that no matter how I would compose the write function for a semicolon, I was unable to. So I thought I would see if it was at all possible to write semicolon in ORCA’s own console. While I was able to write colon : for MIDI and equals = for OSC I was unable to write semicolon ; for UDP message thing. It seems that it is just impossible in general to use the write message for the semicolon operator at this point in time. I know this is such a minor thing, and I don’t know who would really need to be able to write semicolon using a write command, other than me in this very particular case. Well at least we know one of ORCA’s limitations now I guess hehe :wink:


If I could suggest something radical here. What if we changed the symbol for UDP “;” with the old symbol for recieve midi the “&”? I bet that would solve the problem :slight_smile:
#1010

Mhmm, that’s an interesting bug, you can’t write the udp operator with the udp operator. Let me think about this for a little while, I think I can find a way to make it work… stay tuned.

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#1011

I am new here, how do you draw this? looks interesting to me.

#1012

It’s a screenshot of the PureData program.

#1013

Thank you! is a great tool

#1014

Okay, still not working. Here’s what I have.
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here’s what get’s output when I try to bang those messages:
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it’s silently commenting out the dollar signs as well?

I should also make it clear here that although I’ve done a little programming this is really my first time trying to make something with PD.

HOLD THE PHONE! Now the ‘send write’ message is working but not the select message

#1015

I had that same issue when I was developing it, but I never figured out exactly what caused it. If you take one of the f’s out of pack, you’ll see that you get the same error message. This is due to the fact that the message is expecting more variables than it is receiving.

I believe it’s likely an order of operations issue(for some reason pack isn’t getting 2 values, or isn’t sending 2 values to the message?). You can read about PureData’s unique order of operations here: http://write.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/order-of-operations/

and if I figure out exactly what’s causing it I’ll share.