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Infra, Wayne McGregor's world premiere for the Royal Ballet, is full of changes. You can see McGregor trying things that are new for him, new for his dancers. It makes for a less finished work than his recent Chroma, with some rough edges and weaker patches. But there are always ideas here, and they're always going somewhere.
McGregor's first large-scale work as the Royal Ballet's resident choreographer is a collaboration with the artist Julian Opie; this first night was filmed for BBC2. Opie's set designs include a video wall: a wide strip of screen hanging over the dancers' heads.
Film installations are now common in dance. Infra is unusually good at integrating screen and live action (though a technical hitch did delay the start of this first performance). The screen shows electronic figures walking. They're stick people, with distinctive round Opie heads, but their body language is believably natural and easy. One swings a briefcase; another teeters in high heels. Those electronic passers-by root this dance in a stylised but everyday world.
Below them, dancers break into characteristic McGregor moves, thrusting out hips or limbs, torsos juicily articulate. In his recent dances, McGregor's steps have been just as twisty but much less brutal. Instead of sending dancers walloping through the moves, he gives them more room to breathe, shaping his steps into phrases. The dancing is still fast, with the same jutting exaggerations, but it's much more legible. He is showing off his dancers' style as well as their strength and flexibility.
Max Richter's music mixes murmuring electronica with string quartet writing, scratching or mournful sweeps of sound. McGregor responds with newly emotional dances. This isn't a story ballet, but it has dramatic elements that I had never seen from this choreographer. There are even literal dramatic gestures, a kiss or a cry.
In one of Infra's best scenes, couples line up in boxes of light. They're all dancing different duets, but patterns start to emerge, variations or echoes of the same steps. Relationships emerge, too. As she bounces up on pointe, Leanne Benjamin's fierce little nod suggests a quarrel with her partner, Edward Watson. Women snap into poses, giving their footwork a conversational rhythm. More couples arrive, until the stage is teeming with duets. It's a lovely image of life going on, all the individual stories within a crowd.
Infra is an episodic work, following Richter's music in solos, group dances, dramatic and pure dance moments. Sometimes the pace sags, or McGregor changes gears too obviously. Lucy Carter's light design helps to define episodes and numbers, framing the dances in squares and shafts of light. It is atmospheric, though her softest lighting blurs the dancers' expressions. Moritz Junge's costume designs are simple, putting the dancers in plain tops and trunks.
During Lauren Cuthbertson's solo, people in street clothes start to cross the stage, like Opie's digital crowd made flesh. As they stroll by, she sinks to the floor, crying. It doesn't quite work: her silent howls are too big, the pacing slightly off. It's still a bold moment, however, and a fascinating change of tone from McGregor.
His dancers look delighted by the challenge. Eric Underwood stands out in a swaggering solo, his torso swaying with brilliant assurance. There are strong, alert performances from Benjamin, Cuthbertson and Watson, all McGregor regulars. The young Melissa Hamilton, still in the corps de ballet, is lucid and pugnacious.
This triple bill opens with Glen Tetley's Voluntaries and Flemming Flindt's The Lesson. Johan Kobborg is brilliantly creepy in the cartoon violence of The Lesson, twitching with repression and madness. Roberta Marquez makes his doomed pupil first sugary, then desolate. Laura Morera gives the pianist's gestures a kind of pedantic fury.
Voluntaries, Tetley's ballet of dancers surging about in patterned body tights, needed more focus and punch. The men come off best. Rupert Pennefather partners strongly, while Sergei Polunin dances with bright confidence.
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if i could write you a poem
a way for me to express my frustration at not being able to perfectly put into words how i felt about someone. wanting to write him a poem to tell him how much he meant. ironically, this poem ended up being the closest thing to a fulfillment of that desire :)
if i could write you a poem
maybe then i'd be fine
i could
bury my head in the verses
string my heart up between
the lines
knock on your door with
words made of metaphor
dive deep inside, then
behind boulders of description
painting abstract pictures of
what you might mean to me
throw simile rocks
at your window and
when you approach, suddenly
expose my soul
without rhythm or rhyme
not sure what you'd think of me
if i could write you a poem
maybe then i'd see

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ITV2's sexually-charged drama, SECRET DIARY OF A CALL GIRL, follows the double life of a beautiful young prostitute working the streets of London. By day, Hannah (Billie Piper, DR WHO) is a respectable legal secretary who works long hours to make ends meet. By night she's Belle, a ruthless, money-hungry hooker who will do anything to satisfy her clients' basest fantasies. A professional in every sense of the word, Belle slips with seeming ease from the role of girl-next-door to high-heeled dominatrix, taking care never to become emotionally involved with her clients. But the constant pressures of keeping her two lives separate begins to take its toll, and in an unguarded moment with a handsome stranger, Belle lets slip her true identity. From then on, he only wants to be with Hannah...
Based on the internet blogs of London call girl Belle de Jour, this provocative TV drama presents a very human angle on the sex trade. Released here is every episode from the show's first and second series.
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OCZ Technology to Showcase Next-Generation Enterprise Storage Solutions at CeBIT 2013
Subject: Storage, Shows and Expos | February 25, 2013 - 02:12 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: ocz, ssd, PCIe SSD, CeBIT 2013, ZD-XL Accelerator
SAN JOSE, CA—February 25, 2013—OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCZ), a leading provider of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, today announced that it will preview a variety of enterprise storage solutions at next week's CeBIT 2013 conference in Hannover, Germany. As a renowned global forum, CeBIT represents a great opportunity for attendees to be the first to see and experience the latest innovations in solid-state storage from an industry leader in enterprise SSDs, virtualization, and caching software. OCZ offers a complete suite of storage solutions that address VMware, Linux, and SQL Server platforms, and invites IT decision-makers who are evaluating or implementing solid-state storage in the data center to visit the Company's exhibit in Hall 2, Stand E43, from March 5th through 9th.
OCZ will unveil the next-generation ZD-XL SQL Accelerator, a culmination of enterprise hardware and software converging as one tightly integrated and optimized solution. The ZD-XL Accelerator addresses SQL Server database applications to not only ensure that the data for this implementation is right, relevant, and readily available on SSD flash when the SQL Server needs it, but also that the data is accessed with the highest possible I/O performance. For simple deployment and ease of use, this tightly integrated, optimized solution features 'implementation wizards' to guide DBAs so they can optimally manage data cached to the flash. While showcasing the ZD-XL solution OCZ will invite enterprise customers to become beta testers for this exciting solution.
Also included in OCZ's exhibition at CeBIT will be demonstrations to preview the upcoming VXL 1.3 Virtualization Software and LXL Acceleration Software with OCZ's innovative Direct Pass Caching Technology, which not only addresses VMware but is also optimized for Linux applications. OCZ is one of the few SSD providers with a robust portfolio of virtualization and caching software that combine the power of flash acceleration with the power of storage virtualization. This enables multiple virtual server loads to run concurrently on a single physical host, not only increasing CPU and memory resource utilization, but also simplifying deployment, high availability (HA), and maintenance of the server loads.
The next-generation of workstation PCI Express (PCIe)-based SSDs will also be available soon as part of the Company's award-winning Vector Series. These drives reside directly on the PCIe bus and will support four PCIe Gen2 lanes providing lower latency to data, faster file transfers and system boot-ups, expanded storage capacities, and an even quicker, more responsive experience over the already blazingly fast SATA 3.0-based Vector Series. The Vector PCIe Series will feature an advanced suite of flash management tools that deliver enhanced drive endurance and data, making it ideally suited for power computing, content creation, and workstation applications.
Hardware is still key
The show is over, but CES 2013 is still taking its affect on our feet and our minds. While the feet are healing I asked our team to give me a few stories that would summarize this year's show. What stood out and surprised us and really made an impact? Below are a handful of quick selections with links to the full stories, but if you really want the full CES 2013 experience, you should check out our stream of CES news at http://pcper.com/ces.
NVIDIA Tegra 4 / Shield
CES really kicked off with the announcement of Tegra 4 and Shield, an Android-powered mobile gaming system built off the company's newest SoC. Shield combines a 5-in touch screen, Tegra 4 processor, console-quality game controller, speakers, display output support and more in a small, battery powered package. They are promising the best Android gaming experience as well as the ability to stream PC games on your home network to Shield.
Check out our hands-on video with the device as well as some other information on the Tegra 4.
AMD APU Relevance
To be honest, not much was expected from AMD at the show this year but they surprised many of us by talking about new APUs that looked to be much more relevant in the market than we thought they would be. Kaveri will be shipping before the end of the year and will be the first full HSA ready part, Kabini will be a high performance quad-core SoC for ultrathin notebooks and Temash could be a beast in the tablet and hybrid space.
CES 2013: Caustic, now part of Imagination, Shows Series2 Ray Tracing Accelerators
Subject: Graphics Cards, Shows and Expos | January 12, 2013 - 11:38 AM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: series2, ray tracing, imagination, ces 2013, CES, caustic
We have talked with Caustic on several occassions over the past couple of years about their desire to build a ray tracing accelerator. Back in April of 2009 we first met with Caustic, learning who they were and what the goals of the company were; we saw early models of the CausticOne and CausticTwo and a demonstration of the capabilities of the hardware and software model.
While at CES this year we found the group at a new place - the Imagination Technologies booth - having been acquired since we last talked. Now named the Caustic Series2 OpenRL accelerator boards, we are looking at fully integrated ASICs rather than demonstration FPGAs.
This is the Caustic 2500 and it will retail for $1495 and includes a pair of the RT2 chips and 16GB of memory. One of the benefits of the Caustic technology is that while you need a lot of memory, you do not need expensive, fast memory like GDDR5 used in today's graphics cards. By utilizing DDR2 memory Imagination is able to put a whopping 16GB on the 2500 model.
A key benefit of the Caustic ray tracing accelerators comes with the simply software integration. You can see above that a AutoDesk Maya 2013 is utilizing the Caustic Visualizer as a simple viewport into the project just as you would use with any other RT or preview rendering technique. The viewport software is also available for 3ds max.
There is a lower cost version of the hardware, the Caustic 2100, that uses a single chip and has half the memory for a $795 price tag. They are shipping this month and we are interested to see how quickly, and how eager developers are, to utilize this technology.
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CES 2013: Micron demos DDR4 DIMMs, announces 20nm Crucial M500 SSDs at $0.60/GB
Subject: Storage, Shows and Expos | January 10, 2013 - 11:12 AM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: micron, crucial, ces 2013, CES
At the Micron/Crucial, we were shown an expansion to their DDR3 memory line, to include lower profile parts:
These reduced height modules should make for easier installation into HTPC and other small form factor PCs and even 1U Servers.
Next we saw DDR4 running at its native 2133 MHz speed. Here is what the DDR4 DIMM looks like:
Note the slight bulge at the center of the pin area. This is to make installation easier, as there is a considerable increase in pin count, which would have made installation more difficult if not for that design feature. Note the increased contact density in this pic:
Last (and most certainly not least), Micron announced their next SSD Series, the M500. This line uses a newer Marvell controller with Micron engineered firmware, driving 20nm IMFT flash:
All models will employ the enterprise feature of a capacitor bank used to store some reserve power. This helps to minimize any possible data loss should power be interrupted while data is being written:
Micron told me they are planning a 1TB model, running *MLC* flash (not TLC), and they are shooting for a price point of $600. That's $0.60/GB! If this scales down at the lower capacity points, we should be in for some pretty nice price dips in Solid State Storage for 2013!
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CES 2013: Western Digital thin 5mm and 7mm hard drives now also come in hybrid SSHD!
Subject: Storage, Shows and Expos | January 9, 2013 - 10:03 PM | Allyn Malventano
Tagged: CES, ces 2013, western digital, wdc, sshd, hybrid, 5mm, 7mm
Today Western Digital showed me their new 5mm and 7mm mobile hard drives. These are very thin, intended for Ultrabooks, and come not only in the familiar Blue product line, but also in a new Solid State Hard Drive (SSHD). The new thin hybrid models are dubbed WD Black. The 5mm Blue and Black will be available in 500GB capacities:
Adding another 500GB to reach a 1TB capacity point requires another platter, and therefore another 2mm, bringing the 1TB Blue and Black to 7mm:
The WD Black SSHD will come with either 16 ot 24GB of flash memory cache (varying based on OEM configuration / request). More to follow on these once we can get some hours logged on their new models.
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Sapphire CES 2013: Mini-PCs are the Future
Subject: Shows and Expos | January 9, 2013 - 09:11 PM | Josh Walrath
Tagged: Vapor X, sapphire, PCs, graphics, APU, amd
Sapphire was a quick trip with a few interesting things to show off. At the moment we are in a quiet period with AMD and NVIDIA graphics releases. While AMD has released a few of their mobile based 8000 series parts, we are still not expecting a major desktop refresh anytime soon. This is somewhat bittersweet for the graphics partners. On one hand they have more time to differentiate their products and create more value for their consumers. On the other hand there is no major push with new technology that will help the bottom line.
The company is not only involved with graphics, but has a long history of producing motherboards. They offer products for both AMD and Intel, but their primary focus is to address the APU market. FM2 is well fleshed out with Sapphire with A85X, A75, and A55 products. Sapphire does find it slightly easier to compete in the AMD market than going against the biggies in the larger and potentially more lucrative Intel market.
The area where they are hoping to experience the most growth in is the micro PC market. These are very small "desktop" style products based on mobile parts. These are robust little units which do not ship with an OS or the ability to build in an optical device. Due to Sapphire being such a strong AMD partner, they are primarily focusing on APUs in this market as well.
The Edge VS8 is the top product for Sapphire in this market. It is based on a mobile Trinity APU that is quad core enabled running at 1.6 GHz. The graphics portion is the 7600G, which looks to feature the entire complement of GCN units but obviously clocked down to save on power. The VS4 features Trinity but with a dual core processor running at 1.9 GHz.
The lower end Edge HD series is a slightly older unit, and the HD3 runs the last generation Llano processor. They also feature an Intel based HD4 that runs the Celeron 897 processor.
These PCs are shipped without operating systems and can also be bought in a barebones state. For example the VS8 comes standard with 4GB of memory and a 320 GB HD (spindle based). By buying a barebones version a user can easily stack as much memory as possible in the machine as well as use a SSD to give that much more performance.
Sapphire continues to offer their entire line of AMD based graphics cards and are really pushing their Vapor X technology. Which leads us to our next product. Sapphire will start introducing their CPU cooling designs to the market and will be using the Vapor-X technology. Vapor chamber cooling will be coming to the CPU market very soon and at competitive prices.
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We are Still Among the Living
The day after the official AMD presentation we were able to sit down with Leslie Sobon for a good hour and really dig into the products we are expecting throughout this next year. AMD did not officially announce any products, but they revealed more details about products on their roadmaps.
To say that AMD is in a somewhat precarious situation is an understatement. This does not necessarily mean that they won't survive for some years. This was never mentioned to us by AMD, but we can assume that it is not in ATIC's best interest to let AMD flounder too much. AMD is still GLOBALFOUNDRIES largest customer, and ATIC believes that they can become a fabrication giant in the next few years. So, while AMD is hitting some hard times, they will be around for some time to come in spite of their issues.
Believe it or not, AMD is still a CPU company with some relevant producxts. While Intel has the advantage in x86 performance and process technology, AMD has a distinct advantage in the integrated graphics portion. While Trinity was a big step in the right direction in terms of performance and power consumption, it was not enough to boost their flagging marketshare. Throughout the 2013 they are working on several products that will help to change their fortunes.
The first product that we will likely see is the Jaguar core based Kabini APUs. These are the next generation, low power APUs which will replace the Brazos 2.0 products that we currently are seeing. These quad core and dual core parts are manufactured by TSMC on their 28 nm process. Kabini will be the first APU to include the new GCN architecture that we currently see in the HD 7700 series and above. AMD will be breaking new ground in offering a true quad core part at price points unseen so far.
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CES 2013: WonderMedia Dualcore PRIZM SoC
Subject: General Tech, Mobile, Shows and Expos | January 9, 2013 - 07:35 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: WonderMedia, ces 2013, CES
WonderMedia, a subsidiary of VIA Technologies, designs low-cost ARM processors. Like many chip designers such as NVIDIA, they do not have their own fabrication capabilities. Still, companies such as TSMC are almost always happy to fulfill orders for interested parties.
While the majority of CES hype is about the devices, they would literally be pretty dumb without logic behind them. WonderMedia is hoping to power your cheap tablets and set top boxes and in the process bring them up to Android 4.2. The System on a Chip (SoC) also supports Miracast in hopes to bring wireless display technologies down to an even cheaper price point.
The PRIZM WM8980 is currently available for sampling with mass production shipments in Q1 2013.
Check in after the break for the press release.
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CES 2013: Valve Announces Steam Box Not Announced in '13
Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Systems, Shows and Expos | January 9, 2013 - 02:44 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: CES, ces 2013, valve, Steam Box
CES opened with excitement from Xi3 Corporation and their announcement of the Piston. When Gabe Newell spoke with Kotaku at the VGAs he said that we would see Big Picture PCs this year. With word that Xi3 received funding from Valve some of us, including myself, wondered if this Piston was Valve's "Nexus" Steam Box.
Ben Krasnow, hardware engineer at Valve, comments in the video below about whether we have seen Valve's canonical Steam Box or if there are any planned announcements for 2013.
Thank you Ben.
There seems to be some discrepancies between statements from Krasnow and Valve Managing Director, Gabe Newell. The major deviation concerns whether the official Steam Box will be based on Linux or another operating system. When interviewed by The Verge, Gabe Newell claimed the official box will be based on Linux with no unclear terms:
We'll come out with our own and we'll sell it to consumers by ourselves. That'll be a Linux box, [and] if you want to install Windows you can. We're not going to make it hard. This is not some locked box by any stretch of the imagination.
Krasnow in an email discussion with Engadget was somewhat more timid in future plans. The Engadget article was published on the same day as the The Verge interview which makes neither position particularly out of date. His statement:
"The box might be linux-based, but it might not," he continued. "It's true that we are beta-testing Left for Dead 2 on Linux, and have also been public about Steam Big Picture Mode. We are also working on virtual and augmented reality hardware, and also have other hardware projects that have not been disclosed yet, but probably will be in 2013."
At the same point this might all become irrelevant very quickly. As reported yesterday, Gabe Newell in the very same interview seemed to strongly suggest that post-Kepler GPUs will bring virtualization to the consumer market. If that is the case, then the only barrier between Linux and Windows would be for a company to provide a user-friendly virtual machine. Having your host operating system as one or the other would not particularly matter if the user could run gaming applications from the other platform.
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CES 2013 Video: NVIDIA GRID Cloud Gaming Technology
Subject: Graphics Cards, Shows and Expos | January 9, 2013 - 11:46 AM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: video, nvidia, grid, cloud gaming, ces 2013, CES
Despite all the excitement about the NVIDIA Shield handheld gaming device at CES, the company was also heavily promoting its GRID Cloud Gaming Technology, marking another company that is promosing "game everywhere on everything". NVIDIA's claims of lower latency thanks to rendering and encoding on the same GPU have really yet to be verified as the hands-on demos they had at the show were running on local servers (not exactly a real-world test...).
NVIDIA isn't planning on releasing a self-branded service to the public but instead wants to sell servers to ISPs and service providers to increase density (more games per server) and performance. There are no current cloud gaming companies using GRID technology so it looks like we'll have to wait a bit longer to see it's true capabilities.
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The Heroic Assassin
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Status: Finished
Genre: Action and Adventure
Chapter1 (v.1) - The Heroic Assassin
The Heroic Assassin
Kkkk! Kkkk!
I stared into my opponent's desperate eyes as I choked him.
"Wh-why would you want to kill me Kross; I just wanted to end the hatred in this world," said my helpless opponent, Darwin.
"You were trying to end the whole British population. I'll not let my kind suffer from lousy idiots like you!" I said.
I choked Darwin more and more until he stopped moving completely. I let go of his neck and headed off to Manchester, England. Right now I was in London. I took one more glance at the dead body of Darwin, and then I was off.
There was a train waiting for me. I got on the train and soon fell asleep. Finally, after what seemed like forever, we reached Manchester. I got off the train when my laser watch started ringing. I looked at the watch, and my instructor's face appeared.
"Kross, thee must come to base….. Immediately!" said my instructor Randy.
I walked to base and found my peers in a gloomy mood.
"What happened?" I asked.
"Kross, your father he, he…..died." said Randy.
"What?! That can't be true; he was the best in this whole organization! He can't possibly die!" I cried, tears slithering down my cheeks.
"He died on a mission at Paris, France."
"What was his objective?" I asked in a dark, angry tone.
"He had to go to Paris, France to stop a person named Blake," Randy said, eyeing me cautiously.
"Blake intends to release a poison gas at the Exposition Universelle. He captured your father and gave your father a little sample of the poison gas. Since I knew you would want to take revenge, Kross, I already have an advanced flying machine that can teleport you there. It's used only for emergencies and it will take you to Paris." Randy said.
I walked out the room, and went to the "Blue Orbit Tunnel," the place where the flying machine was waiting. As I walked into the tunnel, I was thinking about how I would make Blake's suffering slow and painful. I would take my Zan-XX laser knife, and slowly cut Blake's sad soul open!
I looked ahead and the door to the end of the tunnel was there. Its silver and crimson body glinted because of the blue lights in the cave. The doors opened automatically as I stepped into the chamber. I could see the jet black color of the flying machine. There were four seats in the machine. It had two green engines that had a picture of a viper. The head of the machine resembled a viper showing his fangs. The fearsome viper was our organization's symbol. Viper was also my organization's name. The viper resembled my group's intimidating presence and fearsome power.
"Good day sir, welcome to the Viper-Acer 2000. It's pure technology! Make sure no one knows about this though; our technology is not registered," said my butler, Atobe.
I looked at Atobe and gave him a nod showing that I understood his concern of our technology. I boarded the Viper-Acer 2000 followed closely by Atobe. The next thing I knew, I was experiencing the fastest flight in the world! It went so fast that it took only mere seconds before the machine came to a sudden halt.
"What's wrong," I asked.
"Sir, we stopped at Cherbourg to pick up one of your companions for the trip. His name is Leo Francesco," said Atobe.
Atobe stepped out the Viper-Acer 2000 and got a gun out. He pulled the trigger, sending a bullet flying into the air. I squinted and to my surprise I saw a person with three guns on each side of his belt. He had shoulder pads and looked pretty thin. He was wearing a sharp black tuxedo. He had a gun in his pocket.
"Leo meet Kross, Kross meet Leo," Atobe said, gesturing to the both of us.
Leo eyed me sharply and then he said, "Ravie de vous rencontrer."
"What?" I asked.
"Sir, Leo is speaking French and he said, nice to meet you."
"Ravie de vis rencronter?" I said back knowing I made a total fool out of myself.
Leo laughed at me and so did Atobe.
"Hm, you don't know how to speak French, now do you Kross?" Leo said mockingly. "It's ok, not everyone in France speak French; some speak other religious languages such as Tahitian."
Atobe got in the machine, signaling me and Leo to get on. I got on and then Leo got on.
The Viper-Acer 2000 took off at the record breaking speed I experienced before.
I could see rivers run through parts of France. I could also see mountains. Everything was a blur but I had keen eyes. Before I knew it, we were in Paris. The Viper Acer 2000 landed, causing great gusts of wind. Leo got off the machine and I followed. Atobe gave me and Leo a salute before speeding away in the Viper-Acer 2000.
I could feel the warm breeze of Paris's May as I looked at Leo. I opened my mouth but hesitated to speak. Leo had a sleek grin on his face when he saw my hesitation.
"You try to speak French but you cannot. I guess it's sad that I can speak English and French," he said, grinning slyly.
"Look scum, how about you mind your own business and I'll mind mine. I don't care if I can't speak French. At least I'm more educated," I retorted, anger building inside.
"France also has primary education like basic literacy. I'm also educated Kross so get your facts right." Leo replied back.
I looked at Leo furiously but I managed to keep my cool. We both stopped at a restaurant for a lunch break. We sat at a table and waited for one of the waitresses to come. After some time a waitress came to us.
"Bonjour," I said.
The waitress looked at me like she just saw the ugliest person in the world. Leo had a smirk on his face and then he spoke another language. Now I had a puzzled expression on my face. The waitress and Leo talked a bit and then Leo ordered the food. The waitress quickly wrote the orders and left.
"What language were you and the waitress speaking?" I asked, still puzzled.
"We were speaking in Tahitian; remember what I told you before. Not everyone speaks French in France; some people speak languages such as Tahitian, Catalan, and many more."
I waited for our food to come. It took a while. After a few minutes, I got bored so I went out of the restaurant and wandered around. Paris mostly consisted of people and lights. The people seemed very kind. There weren't a lot of things nature wise. There was hardly any green to be seen.
I went to one of the many markets that lined the street, seeing an old merchant manning it.
"Excuse me sir, do you speak English?" I asked the merchant.
"Yes, what do you want?" said the man.
"Do you know any natural resources that are in Paris?" I asked, knowing the answer already.
"Paris has rich soil, which is how the agriculture markets in Paris make corn and other crops. France has a decent amount of farmers. Are you tourist or something," asked the man.
"Yes, I am and I'm curios. So, do you know what people usually do in France?" I asked.
"The average French home has single rooms heated by a fireplace that are also used to cook. The wealthier have dressers with good china. The women usually do the housework and the men have jobs as urban workers. I would love to chat but I have stuff to do," said the merchant who shooed me away.
I nodded and returned to the restaurant. Leo was waiting outside with a plastic box.
"I saved some food for you, Kross." said Leo. I put the plastic box in my bag which had my ammunition and other weapons.
"Come on Kross, we have to get back on track."
As me and Leo were walking, I saw a man dressed in all black. He had a sign of the Eiffel Tower (which was going to be displayed at the Exposition Universelle) and on the Eiffel Tower sign there was a big X. I looked at Leo and he gave me a nod. We followed the suspicious man. After some twists and turns the man came to a halt. I then noticed that we were in front of an abandoned warehouse. The man entered and the door closed with a loud thud! Leo jumped and landed right in front of the door. He got a pistol out of his holster and then kicked the door open. Three men appeared and surrounded Leo.
"Seize him," one of the men said.
Two of the three men rushed towards Leo. He jumped in the air and did a 360 spin while shooting. The two men fell down dead. The last remaining man got a knife and snuck behind Leo.
"Hey weirdo, look at me," I said, loading the chamber of my gun.
When the dull man turned around, I shot him. The man let go of his knife and he too joined his friends in death.
"I didn't need your help Kross. I know what I'm doing."
"A simple thank you would do Leo," I said brushing off Leo's rude comment.
"Ha ha ha, you have finally arrived of vipers." said a cold icy voice.
I looked up and saw a person descending down stairs. He had an AK-74u clipped on his belt; it had X's all over it.
"You must be Blake, the one who killed my father!" I said infuriated and my hands curled into fists.
"Hmm I am so sorry!" Blake said sarcastically, his eyes glinting menacingly.
Blake's henchmen surrounded me and Leo. They all had either machine guns, or AK-47 Holographics. I dropped down on my knees. I looked at Leo and I could see he was infuriated but he also, dropped down on his knees. Two henchmen roughly grabbed us, pulling us upwards to our feet. Blake told the men to take Leo and me to the "capsule."
"Oh, by the way you two, the Exposition Universelle will start tomorrow," Blake said, smiling sadistically.
I had forgotten that it was going to be held May 6th to October 31st and May 6th was tomorrow! I felt myself being picked up by two bulky men. They took us down steps and tied us both against a chair. Then Blake's other henchmen surrounded me and Leo. I thought of ways to get out but they all would seem helpless.
"Hey Leo, what is the Exposition Universelle for?" I asked.
"There were many Exposition Universelles held. The one tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the storming of Bastille. It's an event that is traditionally considered the symbol for the beginning of the French Revolution. You can think of it as a holiday," Leo told me.
"Thanks," I said and paused. "Wait, I think I have a plan."
Just then I heard footsteps and soon saw Blake walk down the steps.
"Hello my dear friends; how do you like your new home?" Blake laughed but his tone of voice quickly changed. "This is what you deserve, especially you vipers," Blake said angrily.
"Kross your father; he shot many Armenians. A lot of Armenians live in Paris. Now, if you're wondering, the Armenians were an ethnic group. I'm also an Armenian. Now I will take my revenge! Kross, this disgusting world will always run on hate. Everyone hates, even you do. This world will never have peace, only hate! You have to learn how to embrace that hate and turn it into your strength;" Blake said evilly, his eyes darker than black."
"Are you done your little speech?" I asked.
Blake looked at me and then looked at one of his men.
"I'll be nice and won't bomb the Eiffel Tower while setting off my poison gas. Only if Kross gets the bomb clipped to his hand."
"Fine, but you better not lie!" I said.
One of the men got a bomb with a needle stuck to the end. He got my hand and stabbed the bomb in my flesh.
"I'll kill you..." I said, my teeth gritted in pain.
"Hm, Kross I don't think you want to test out my poison gas. Heh, you'll experience the full blast of my poison gas plan tomorrow. Let me tell you something; if you have the guts to climb the Eiffel Tower then do it! That's where the poison gas will be resting. Hahahahahahaha!" his sadistic laughter grew fainter as he ascended the steps.
I heard a sound coming from Leo's hand. He was holding a knife and was slowly cutting the tight rope. Then………..Snap!
"Je suis le meilleur," Leo yelled out in French.
One of the men held out a machine gun and pulled the trigger. Since my eyes were trained for bullets, I sliced the ten bullets he shot at me in half. The man opened his jaw in amazement. I formed a grin on my face and shot him with a handgun in my holster.
On the other side Leo was going old school and killing the men with knives. When I wasn't paying attention, one of the henchmen stabbed me with a knife in my back. I looked down and I saw a pool of blood on the floor. Rage boiled within me at the sight of the crimson liquid. I got my Zan-XX laser knife that was meant for Blake's kill and cut the man's arm off. He looked at me terrified, his eyes so wide that I could see the whites in them.
"Nice vous connaître," I said.
I put my knife right through the poor man's throat. The man stopped moving completely with his eyes still wide open.
"I'm surprised you can speak French a bit."
I turned around and saw Leo.
"I learned it from my father; he only knew how to say one sentence in French, 'Nice to know you." I said.
"Your father must've been a hero for you, Kross." Leo said sympathetically.
"He was, and that's why I am going to kill Blake." I said determinately.
Leo and I walked up the steps we came down from.
"Leo we should just rest here until tomorrow. While we rest we can think of plans to stop Blake," I said.
Leo nodded and we both went down the steps and rested upon the two chairs we got tied to.
I woke up, and saw Leo training with his knives.
"Vous vous êtes réveillé," he said
I got up and started walking up the steps and Leo followed along. When I got outside, I saw that the places were decorated. People were swarming the streets talking to each other.
"You see Kross; our surroundings prove that this is a replica of Bastille and its neighborhood. If you're wondering what Bastille is, it's basically a medieval fortress. People wanted the weapons they had in the Bastille. There was gunfire there hence the name is "storming," Leo told me.
I explored the "neighborhood of Bastille." I saw the interior courtyard of Bastille; it had a blue ceiling and was decorated with fleur-de-lys. In the courtyard I saw people dancing and talking. I thought it was probably a gathering place and a ballroom. I looked at the fleur-de-lys one more time. I remembered how my mom back home in Manchester, England decorated our house with fleur-de-lys. I admired my mom's and dad's ways of decorating our house with other cultural designs. Then I remembered the plastic box Leo saved for me. I got my bag, opened the zipper, and took my plastic box out. I looked in the box. There were fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs, grains, and meat. I ate the whole thing in a minute.
"Wow Leo, the food is amazing!" I exclaimed.
I saw Leo far ahead and quickly caught up to him.
"Kross, you can wander around this place until night. That's probably when Blake will make his move," Leo said.
"Fine then, we'll meet at the courtyard," I replied back
Leo walked away and so did I.
"Blake could turn out to be very strong so I think I should train," I said out loud to myself.
I thought of running ten miles, so I did. After I ran ten miles I looked at my watch to see how much time it took me. When I looked at the watch it read two minutes. It was a new record; I ran ten miles in two minutes! I then wanted to know how high I could jump. I put my advanced watch in height mode. I kneeled down and jumped for the sky. When I was airborne I closed my eyes so I could feel the warmth of May. Then I felt my feet land gracefully on ground. But when I opened my eyes I was on top of a building! I looked at my watch and found out that I jumped twenty-five feet in the air! As I trained more and more it got darker and darker. When it was night I went to the courtyard. I could see Leo looking at the fleur-de-lys, I quickly approached him.
"Hey, Leo come on!" I yelled
Leo looked at me and in a flash he was next to me. I looked up above the Eiffel Tower and could make out a flying machine that was camouflaging with the night sky. I looked at Leo and he nodded. He and I rushed towards the tower. Then all of a sudden someone grabbed my arm. It was one of Blake's henchmen!
I quickly round-house kicked him in the gut and shot him. Then I caught up to Leo. We both put on the camouflage setting on our watches. I looked at the top of the Eiffel Tower. I could faintly see a human figure. As I looked closer, I realized it was Blake!
"Leo you stay down here I'll go," I said.
"Ok," he replied.
I jumped forward to find myself grabbing one of the Eiffel Tower's bars. I looked straight up and saw Blake looking down upon me. The head of his gun was pointing towards me. Then all of a sudden, three bullets were racing towards me.
"Try me Blake, you'll never touch this," I said haughtily.
I dodged two of the bullets but the third one hit my knee.
"Ahhhh!" I yelled in pain.
I started climbing up, but since my knee was hurt it was harder to climb. Again Blake pulled the trigger and five bullets fired out. This time I was ready. With one hand still grabbing the bars I used my other hand to slice the bullets. I quickly counteracted and pulled my AK-74u I stole and fired. Three bullets hit Blake's leg.
"Yo-You imbecile, I am going to kill you!" he cried.
Blake jumped off the top and got his knife out. As he soared down towards me, I pulled my Zan-XX laser knife out.
Our two knives collided. This time I was the one who was farther up. I jumped down and round-house kicked Blake on the head.
"You'll pay for that," he said, holding his head.
He got his knife and jumped above me!
"I guess you also have the springs, huh?" I said.
Blake hit me on my face with the bottom of his shoe. Then he jumped downwards and grabbed my injured knee and slammed it against the bar.
"Grrr! That's it Blake! Your end is now," I said, more determined than ever.
I kicked him in the jaw, pulled his collar, and placed my knife to his neck.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Blake said smiling.
Blake got a remote control that had a big red button on it.
"Remember that bomb I clipped on your hand, this is the switch for it," Blake told me.
Blake got his gun and shot it at my forehead. Before it connected, I blocked the bullet with the hand that had the bomb.
The bomb on my hand broke and I grinned. I stabbed Blake's chest with my knife, his eyes growing wide as blood poured out of his chest.
"Y-Yo-You worthless t-trash I wi-will kill yo-!" Blake uttered before he fainted.
I caught Blake before he fell off the Eiffel Tower. I carried him on my shoulder to where Leo was waiting for me. I limped as I went. When Leo saw me he raced towards me.
"How are you Kross?!" Leo asked, tense.
"I'm good, Blake is not dead even though I stabbed him in the chest," I told Leo.
"You're limping. I'll call Atobe and tell him to pick us up," Leo told me.
Leo called Atobe and the two talked. I rested against a side of a building and treated my injured knee by bandaging it with a piece of cloth. I saw something hanging out Blake's belt. It was a can, the poison gas can! I took it out his belt and attached it onto mine. I promised myself I would keep it as a token of my victory.
"Atobe said he is at the same place we were dropped off at. I'll carry Blake for you." Leo said.
He took Blake and we both went where Atobe was. When we reached there we could see Atobe waving.
"Gentlemen you're finally back," Atobe exclaimed excitingly.
"Yes we are, and we got another passenger for you," I replied back.
Leo got Blake off his shoulders and onto one of the seats in the Viper-Acer 2000. I got on and so did Leo. I took my final glance of the Exposition Universelle. I could see the different cultural dancers and all new technology being presented. I would truly never forget Paris. I planned to come back one day or another.
The Viper-Acer 2000 took off. As I was remembering my experiences, I felt a sudden jerk.
"Because we are running out of fuel, we are about to crash!" Atobe said.
"How about using the teleport button?" I suggested.
Atobe pressed the button and in an instant we were at base.
"We're finally here Leo. We're back at base." I said.
Atobe went in the base, followed by Leo then me. Leo was holding Blake on his shoulders.
"There you all are," said a familiar voice.
As the figure came closer I found out it was Randy.
"Where am I?" said a dumbfounded Blake.
Leo quickly grabbed both of Blake's arms.
"You're in the base of the organization, Viper." said my instructor Randy.
"Get me out of here!" replied Blake.
"I'm sorry but you need to die. You have committed an unforgivable sin. You were trying to poison all of the people at the Exposition Universelle." Randy said emotionlessly.
Randy got out his gun and shot three direct bullets in Blake's heart. Blake fell to the ground, his body very still. One of my peers came and picked up Blake. I guessed that Blake was heading to the Viper's, "Fire Dome."
"Leo, Kross, I have a ceremony set up for you. I want you gentlemen to come. It'll commence immediately. As for you Atobe, I want you to join the audience." Randy instructed.
Atobe nodded his head and left. I went to my room and changed. I wore a new tuxedo I recently got. Then I went to the Grand Hall. When I opened the door, I was met by a long red carpet. When I looked straight ahead, I saw Leo and Randy on the podium.
"Kross one of our most prized assassins," Randy started. "You have done such an incredible task with your partner Leo. The both of you have saved the people at the Exposition Universelle!"
Randy placed a medal over Leo's neck and then mine.
"Merci," Leo said to Randy.
"Thank you." I said to Randy.
"Leo will be made the vice leader of Viper, and our new leader will be……Kross!" Randy said proudly.
Everyone clapped like they never clapped before. Once the clapping was over Leo walked down the podium. I followed him.
After some talking, laughing, and refreshments everyone went back to their room. Before I went to my room, I met up with Leo.
"You know what Leo; you were the best partner I ever had." I said.
"Vous avez également été le meilleur partenaire que j'ai jamais eu." Leo said.
"I bet you said, "You were also the best partner I ever had." I said.
Leo nodded and we both started towards our room.
"Kross, I need to tell you something. Your father would be very proud of you. "Au revoir." he said before disappearing in his room.
I smiled and continued walking to my room. Once I plopped down on my bed I started to think about my father and his work. My father was way better than me. No, I excelled more than my father. I achieved a higher level than him. I didn't just kill people, I saved them. My father was just an assassin. I was more than an assassin; I was a heroic assassin.
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Awesome job Shad kmu and now I will speak some French.
Bravo Shad quelle une épopée se terminant et bienvenue à nouveau à la "Assassins de la sanglante Table ronde"
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Then, as the meeting drew to a close, the businessman offered an intriguing suggestion that he would rise to national prominence in the Republican Party as a victor in a liberal state and could use his influence to soften the GOPs hard-line opposition to abortion.
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Don't worry...Mitt will flip-flop a couple more times on this before the first primary.
Please - find Ronald Reagan!
Cause killing babies is being moderate.
There is a reason Romney is not welcome here.
Moderate Mitt is a twit.
I'd say the left has a hard-line stance against babies.
romney also said, "I was never part of the Reagan Revolution... I never believed in it".
"romney also said, I was never part of the Reagan Revolution... I never believed in it.
Well there you go. He's liberal sheep in conservative clothing.
Check this out:
Democrat Supporter Says Romney Masquerading as a Die-Hard Conservative
Williard Mitt Romney started running for POTUS long before 2002
His Dad George Romney groomed young Willie Mitty for POTUS from early on...
He certainly is that!
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Tues. After getting off the airplane I was pretty tired but I was also pretty excited to get off the plane and have Victor (the town car driver) waiting with a sign with my name on it. Victor took me to Coronado Springs Resort where Under Armour people gave me gear and asked me questions about there product. After I received my gear I went to the players lounge and met Robbie Toma while I was playing Ping pong. I saw Jacobbi, and Chris walk in and we talked for a few minutes before I went to Downtown Disney to eat.
Wed. I woke up at about 8 and walked down stairs to have breakfast. We had a team meeting after breakfast and I went with the wide outs in their study session. The whole team rode the bus together to the Wide World of Sports. The lockers at the Wide World of Sports were crazy, in that they were big, clean, and had our stuff already set out in them. In addition to practicing both teams also ate lunch (sandwiches) at the Wide World of Sport Complex. We caught buses back to the hotel where a lot of the guys recovered on the couches they provided in the players' lounge. I celebrated New Years in my room on the phone talking with my friends, and with my mother as well.
Thur. I ate eggs, bacon, orange juice, and an apple for breakfast before team meetings. We left again for the Wide World of Sports after team meetings. Both teams got warmed up by one of the Under Armour people and I left the group to go kick. I don't know if I didn't stretch well enough but my groin started hurting pretty bad. We practiced special teams were I hit a big punt and also went 3 for 3 on field goals from 42 with a snap and hold. After practice we went to the Citrus Bowl and watched Georgia and Michigan State play. Jacobbi, Chris, Demonte, and I sat together while we talked about being hungry. I grabbed some dinner in the hotel and watched the Rose Bowl while I ate.
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Sat. The walk through was a very easy day. Both teams started to separate themselves a little more since the game was only a day away. Today was the first time we saw our jerseys and they are throwed (means tight or good looking). I went to Magical Kingdom and spent most of my time with Mason Walters and Berret Mathews.
Sun. I ate a really good breakfast and went back to my room to rest. At about 3 I ate the same sandwiches they gave us every day for lunch but I can't complain about free lunch. I said my usual prayer and listened to my Ipod before the game. During the game my leg was still hurting pretty bad but the trainers wrapped it up. I was honored that I was a captain for the black team and it will be a memory I will never forget. I was disappointed about the field goals but I knew they were things that were out of my control if they get blocked. I just prayed that God would give me an opportunity to make a play and he did with a 47 yard field goal. The experience was amazing getting to know my future teammates, and also meeting people that are going to be successful. I couldn't have asked for a better winter break. The whole experience was a blessing.


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Several PD-Windows --> How to bring one to the front?
I am working on a modular project, - different GUIs for different tasks, those I want to use live on stage.
Think several interfaces.
Now I want to be able to switch between them dynamically without having to use the menubar or the OS.
I already found how to open and close pd-files within a patch:
but I don't want audio-dropouts due loading a new patch.
(This I can achieve by separating the GUIs from the audio-processing and keeping this running in the background)
And the closing-thing seems to be unstable here, sometimes it works and other times pd crashes, I don't know why ...
Is there a way to switch between opened windows within pd?
Can I address the "Windows"-Menu from the inside of a patch, to bring a window to the front?
PDL2-Ork Ubuntu here.
Playing sound files based on numbers/sets of numbers?
@whale-av Hello, first I just want to say thank you very much for your help and sorry for not replying sooner, I read all the messages, I just didn't want to bother people before I had an actual issue or a question that I understood enough to know how to ask what to do next. So that's why I'm only replying now. And you're totally right, I have suffered and learned in the past day so my brain's kind of all over the place right now, I'm still struggling to get the hang of this and really understand the patches you sent me (thank you so much for taking the time to make them for me!).
To answer your questions, I will not be assessed for this part of the project, it doesn't matter much how I do it as long as it works because no one will look at the project anyway, the end result is what matters in this case. The only "limitation" is that it has to be done in Pd. Also, my version of Pd is Vanilla (I'm assuming that doesn't change your patch much since you said it'd work in that version), and actually no, there's not really a next stage to this project; all I'm supposed to do is get my sound files to play in a loop when I press Enter (after I've typed all my numbers) and to be able to stop the loop again with Enter. I probably should have mentioned that oops, does that mean I need another keyup object or would the one in the patch work for both starting and stopping the sound?
I actually had a patch of my own but it was very simple and mostly improvised based on what I managed to learn (like I said, completely new to this) and nothing like yours so it probably wouldn't have worked anyway... Is it ok if I use your patch as a starting point? If it is, I'm assuming the next step would be the abstractions. From what I understand, abstractions are used for referencing and reusing old patches in order to keep the new patch clean and not messy. I do need something like that, as I have 17 wav files ready to use. But not all 17 should be used in one loop. I actually only need 5 sound files per loop (like in your patch), but the total number of files I can choose from is 17. To be able to tell the program which file to play based on its corresponding number I probably need the select object, right? Would I need it within the calling patch or the patch being called, a.k.a. abstraction (if my thinking is right, it's probably the calling patch)? There's probably an easier way to do this than an x number of select objects but I'm just not familiar enough with the program, sorry... Also, what difference does it make if it's not 1-digit numbers, but 2-digit, 3-digit and 4-digit combinations? To be more precise, the first, second and fourth sound file should correspond to a 2-digit number, the third to a 3-digit number, and the fifth to a 4-digit number (and I can't change this unfortunately, it's part of the task).
Oh, and is there a way I can make this work on any computer, for example if I copy my files onto a flash drive? Or if I can't, would it drastically affect my main patch if I changed the sound file destinations later, once I know what computer is going to be doing all this? Would I need to change the file destinations in all the patches or would it be possible to do so automatically via abstractions, by changing them in the main patch only (probably not but eh I asked...)?
This is all probably waaay too advanced for a beginner (and I have no idea why they'd give me this task without any prior preparation.......) so I realize I might be asking for too much here, and maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, but I still hope you could give some advice on what to do from here, what's the next step, the elements I need to get this done etc. I'm not in too much hurry, I have time until the 5th of February, so it's ok if you don't have the time for me right now, I can wait a bit!
Thank you so so so much, even just sending me the first patch was such a huge help, thank you! And I hope you can guide me through this for a bit longer!
getting started with webPd
Hi all. I'm having trouble testing Pd patches via webPd as instructed in this step-by-step guide .
I've made a patch (using only the available objects) that includes a synth and a "dsp 1" message so that when the patch is loaded a middle C should start sounding. I included this patch in a folder with webPd.js and jquery.js libraries, and followed the example for the index.html file. To mock same origin policy, I used python through the terminal to enable a web server using the "python -m SimpleHTTPServer" command line, and got the following on the terminal:
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...
Which seems fine, however, whenever I access the link http://localhost:8000/index.html, I got no sound at all despite the fact everything seems ok in the terminal:
18.104.22.168.in-addr.arpa - - [16/Dec/2016 14:39:07] "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" 200 -
188.8.131.52.in-addr.arpa - - [16/Dec/2016 14:39:08] "GET /js/jquery.js HTTP/1.1" 200 -
184.108.40.206.in-addr.arpa - - [16/Dec/2016 14:39:08] "GET /js/webpd-latest.min.js HTTP/1.1" 200 -
126.96.36.199.in-addr.arpa - - [16/Dec/2016 14:39:08] "GET /patches/myPatch.pd HTTP/1.1" 200 -
I tried as well running things locally in Firefox by changing the "security.fileuri.strict_origin_policy" to false. I'm using Firefix 48.0.2.
I wonder if I'm missing something very obvious but I've checked the index.html and it includes the Pd.start(), and so the patch should start sounding when the url is loaded (shouldn't it?). Also, I think the problem lives in the way I'm avoiding the same origin policy since b2renger webPd examples (which run online) also won't run locally on my machine.
Any hints on what I'm doing wrong? Here's my patch myProject.zip
Psychedellic Audioguide using MobMuPlat or PdParty
I make psychedelic audioadventures, guiding multiple, synchronized people with headphones into wonderlandish stories. Sometimes leading them to crazy places that I acoustically augment with soundtracks and binaural stereorecordings from the exact places where people walk bye to create pré- and déjà-vu-ish time-flashs (iE you hear the door infront of you and the white, invisible rabbit tells you that you are too late - so you open the door, hear/feel the exact sound again...and again…). Using synchronized instructions I puppeteer multiple participants into interactions.
I used to manually synch multiple mp3-players but also worked with free gps-audioguide software. Also I have a little yet not perfect web-app-flasmobgenerator to synchronize up to an infinite amount of players with individual audio streams.
One of my biggest inspirations was the RjDj-app that was released at the beginning of the iTimes but sadly shortly after taken from the app store - and now after all this years I finally discovered the Mobmuplat and PdParty-apps and the possibility to not only play the old RjDj-scenes but also to modify them …so I decided to learn some PD! ..which is really not easy at the very beginning, but it literally opens worlds and my brain is working hard to understand all this amazing scenes and different patches out there…
First I really want to thank you from my heart for all this amazing and inspiring works - especially for sharing it! This makes me so very happy and I feel this is really the way it should be (well, a little easier maybe)!
2nd I want to apologize for my questions - i feel still so stupid PD-wise…but:
I am trying to learn how to port a PD-patch to MobMuPlat or PdParty.
Mainly I try to trigger recordings, playbacks and live-effects by a clock.
Today I managed to write a patch that records two samples (A and and to plays them back later in a different order (BA).
I found a way to let the sec counter trigger a bang to the recordings/playbacks but I still don´t know how I could add the minutes into that trigger (iE record at 3m14s for 10s)?
In one of the tutorials I´ve heard that there are different ways to record sound: one to memory and one to disk and that a disk recording might stop audio playbacks?
How could I timetrigger live-effects - iE at 4m33s the reverb for the mic-in slowly gets bigger for 1min and then fades back to normal // or the same with a delay // or with a voicepitch rising or falling // or with the volume of the unfiltered live-monitoring (adc~ -> day~) or the volume of the audiofile that plays back simultaneously ->
Is there any way to play back an mp3/or Ogg-file with PdParty or MobMuPlat? I found some unofficial patches that seem to be able to let PD stream shoutcast/or icecast mp3-streams and also sth related to ogg(unofficial), but I don´t really understand if it is possible - and HOW? And on MubMuPlat/PdParty?? It´s just that I can´t put an 1hr wav-file onto peoples iThing.
I found a LANdini tutorial patch and an Ableton-link-patch and now I am wondering if i could somehow synch multiple phones at the same time to play back different audio files at each device while applying 1. /2. and 3. …and if it is maybe even somehow possible to do that via web?!
I am a bit confused about using PD-extended or unofficial or 0.47xyz(vanilla?) …Which one is better to use for the MobMuplat/PdParty development? PdParty seems to name several objects differently, which doesn't´t allow me to run/test the scenes on my Mac - is there any editor or sth like->
I found an old app from the RjDj development: RJC-1000, but I can´t make it work. Anyone managed to use this app? It seems so much easier then MobMuPlat-editor(+PDwrapper) to connect the patches with a user interface. Did anyone managed to create a working MobMuPlat-interface? I couldn't´t find any tutorials on that. Would be so great to understand that part.
I also found several scenes and patches that make use of the GPS-data and I would love to learn more about that and understand those patches to use GPS as triggers for my Audiotours. Is there anyone who could help me or maybe even make a tutorial on that?
Last but not least: when switching between apps (macSierra) with cmd+tab to PD (extended and 0.47, too) I have to do it everytime twice …drives me really mad - anyone has the same problem or any idea how to solve this ?!
Is there anyone in Berlin who I could meet to learn sth?
Thank you all for your help and if you come to Berlin one day, please let me guide you to Wonderland!
Serious Failure? Suddenly connections and abtractions were gone
@noise The sub-patches and arrays are stored inside the patch that contains them.
Abstractions are other patches that can be opened within the patch that they are "drawn" in, but have to be saved separately.
When you have a sub-patch visible and you save it you are actually saving the patch that "contains" it, and so you have to be careful (and of course when you save the patch it's sub patches are saved within it............ but the abstractions it contains are not re-saved if they have been edited.).
If connections are missing it is because the object that they connect to....... maybe an abstraction.... cannot be found, or dynamically created inlets or outlets within that abstraction have not been created, or have not been created before the lines are being drawn. Usually this happens because you have moved the abstractions somewhere outside of Pd's known path preferences, or you have zipped everything into a compressed folder.
The connection lines inside the patch are still there (e.g. #X connect 4 1 2 0;) but they cannot be drawn because the objects they connected to cannot be drawn.
So you should not need to rebuild your main patch.
You need to find out why Pd. cannot find the abstractions. Maybe it has lost it's path preferences?
libpd on mac: clarification requested on expected behavior of cpp sample
Thanks for those links Monetus. I'm pretty close with my existing setup and will first try to work with that when I have some more time. Some of the output from the samples/cpp/pdtest appears to be as expected.
However, from main.cpp
cout << endl << "BEGIN Patch Test" << endl;
// open patch
Patch patch = pd.openPatch("pd/test.pd", ".");
cout << patch << endl;
// close patch
cout << patch << endl;
// open patch again
patch = pd.openPatch(patch);
cout << patch << endl;
// process any received messages
// in a normal case (not a test like this), you would call this in
// your application main loop
pd.processFloat(1, inbuf, outbuf);
cout << "FINISH Patch Test" << endl;
the response
BEGIN Patch Test
Patch: "pd/test.pd" $0: 1003 valid: 1
Patch: "pd/test.pd" $0: 0 valid: 0
Patch: "pd/test.pd" $0: 1005 valid: 1
print: 0
print: 0
FINISH Patch Test
seems right but no patch was opened and if I already opened that patch before running the executable, none of the print messages (called later in the code) showed up in the console of pd. I'll focus on this and try to repost to the forum when I have a better idea of what is going on.
video playback framerate wrong
@jbvidigal Hello again......
Yes, you can load the audio ready to play...... it goes to the $0-soundfile table ready to be played from ram. The video though is played from disc, in sync with the audio. The video file cannot be "pre-loaded" as such......
I think the problem you have is that you are putting my patch (or yours probably) as a sub-patch [pd something] and so all of the $0's have the same value derived from the main patch.
You need to copy the contents of your [pd-something] into a new patch window and save that as "something.pd". Then in your main patch you retype your sub-patch objects as [something 1] for the first and [something 2] etc. (abstractions - not sub-patches) and then they will each have a different value for $0.
All that is of course a "maybe" as I have not seen your patch. Zip yours up without the media files if you still hit a brick wall, and we can all have a look and better let you know how to solve any problems.......
Loading a pure data patch ( .pd file ) within a pure data patch ( .pd file )
@jancsika thanks for the quick answer!
Several reasons:
- Using [switch~] implies to slightly modify every (third party) patch that I want to use. I'd prefer to use them as is, and simply put them on a folder.
- As i understood, if load let's say 20 patches with switch to off, it'll consume less cpu but will still be consuming some anyway. Is that right?
- I don't mind to interrupt the audio engine every time I want to open / close patch . The open and patch close is an analogy for changing a "Preset" on a synthesizer, so it's ok I won't be emitting audio in between preset changes.
- Keep in mind that the mother patch will alway be loaded, i want to open close only the "child pure data patches" ( ore 'presets' ).
What do you think?
Loading a pure data patch ( .pd file ) within a pure data patch ( .pd file )
Quick version:
My folder structure:
/mother-patch.pd ( main pure data patch first loaded and running... )
How i could open /patches/1/main.pd triggered by some action in the mother-patch.pd?
How i could close /patches/1/main.pd triggered by some action in the mother-patch.pd?
Long read
I'm attempting to clone the Critter and Guitari organelle ( link ).
This instrument is basically a computer running libpd and running very cool pure data patches
You can read more about my project here ( link )
I have a mother pure data patch that it's first loaded when the device is on, this patch is doing some [send] and [receive] operations related to the knobs/keyboard/volume/led and it should be also managing the loading ( opening and closing ) of the child pure data patches ( mentioned above ). This child patches are receiving the actions from the mother patch.
If I open the mother patch and the child patches manually, everything works fine. But now I need to OPEN this CHILD PURE DATA patches with a object within the mother patch.
I've been testing [open] , for opening the main.pd of the child patches but it does not work.
I've been testing [pd] , for opening the main.pd of the child patches but it does not work.
I wouldn't like to modify the original organelle patches.
I wouldn't like to end up loading all the patches using [pd ...] and inserting a [switch] object inside every main.pd file in the patches in order to enable only the dsp of the desired patch.
It would be perfect If i could have a folder with all the patches and load them within the mother patch with some kind of object. And I would also want to be able to CLOSE the pure data patch and open another ( changing patches... )
Every little and big help woul be MUCH APRECIATED!
Stack Overflow issue with Biquad~
I realise this is a very specific question which may not be of use to many others, however I am at my wits end with the issue at hand.
I am designing a parametric EQ based on the Biquad EQ equations by Robert Bristow-Johnson. The filter works perfectly and using the audio example "measurement" with PD, I have the patch plotting the mag & phase response to prove the filter is working as desired.
My issue is, the patch throws out "stack overflow" warnings when the patch loads and any time any of the freq, Q or gain parameters is changed and I can't figure out why.
I intend to use libpd to use this patch with Android, I so would like the patch to be working without fault before attempting to use it with libpd and Android studio.
The "FilterTestBench.pd" patch is top level patch.
I have tried different ways of banging in the different values in different orders in case that was the issue, but haven't found a solution yet.
Any suggestions, help or experience with similar issues would be greatly appreciated.


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The Office 12 capabilities allow you take capture notes on your Smartphone/Pocket PC and sync them to your laptop/tablet!
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The above pic shared by Kim, seen her dressed in an extremely sheer nude full-length dress with a heavily embroidered jacket slung over her arms while Kanye looked extremely shy away form the camera.
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