evilplaymobil but I'm not sure all the externals from l2ork are there.

No they are not there, only the ones I built manually.

evilplaymobil I'm pretty interested on the fluid~ object so I could play SF2 soundfonts on Bela.

Link to the source code for it?

      8 months later

      Hey 🙂

      Just bought a second hand Bela and look forward for it to arrive in a near future.

      So now I am doing some research.

      One thing I use a lot in pd is list-abs. But yeah not really externals, as they are all abstractions.

      List-abs work fine for Bela, right, since it's abstractions?

      Thanks!

      as long as none of those abstractions use any non-vanilla objects, i guess you should be fine 🙂

      never heard of that collection, looks interesting.
      externals work as well, i just found it a bit more involved compiling libraries - abstractions are easier to use.
      just load them into the same folder that _main.pd is in, if i recall correctly.

        yes, you can put them in the project folder, or create a dummy project pd-externals and put them all there so that they are accessible from all projects without having to duplicate them.

          Remork

          List abs are very good for list and table manipulation.

          I often use "array get" to get table data and make a list out of it and then use list-abs to do some manipulation, like reverse, invert, replace, add elements and then "array set" to put it back in the table. So many options with that library 🙂

          I did find a couple of already compiled externals, like sexy, cyclone ans else. Sexy I used to use a lot.

          But these days, I try to make everything vanilla, for ease of use.

          For reverb I really like Freeverb. I found this, but it seems like it's not compiled specifically for Bela, but "just" for Linux:
          https://github.com/noizhardware/bela-projects

          Maybe I'll try to follow the compile instructions for Bela and see if I can compile it sometime 🙂

          Thanks!

            giuliomoro

            Nice, so it works pretty much like Organelle. I think I like the common folder idea the most, which I use in both Organelle and my rpi/Pisound box.

            Thanks 🙂

              4 months later

              Hey guys 🙂

              I am using the phasorshot~ from TOF external library a lot in my patches on my Macbook. From this library:
              https://github.com/electrickery/pd-tof

              I would love to be able to use that external for Bela too. I did try to make a Vanilla version, but it just doesn't work as great as the hardcoded version from TOF library.

              I was wondering if anyone compiled it already? Or is it possible to use a Linux version? I got it for Organelle.

              If not, I guess I need to try compiling it myself, which I do not have a lot of experience with, to be honest, so if anyone already compiled I would be pretty grateful 🙂

              Thanks in advance!

              I got it for Organelle.

              this one should work.

              Otherwise, building it from source is straightforward. I added build instructions and a binary download here

                Thanks, I think I will start with the Organelle version for simplicity and go on from there 🙂

                3 months later

                giuliomoro Sorry for jumping on this old thread, I've been trying to get the helmholtz~ external on Bela but am having some issues with removing the -Wl option. What's the best way to access the Makefile? I'm opening it from the terminal, removing the -Wl option in my text editor, saving it, but still am getting the error.

                  a month later

                  Hi! Thanks giuliomoro for the detailed instructions about compiling externals. I have compiled and successfully used externals like zexy and cyclone in Bela. It was easy and I had no issues following the instructions.

                  Yesterday I compiled the Pure Data external timbreID (source is here: https://github.com/wbrent/timbreID) in a Bela Mini which some other people (@lokki ) found interesting. I followed the same instructions. Compilation and installation took a couple of minutes maximum.

                  However I am having a bad time: Pd does not create the objects. I thought it should be similar to zexy, but it doesnt work for me.

                  This is what I did and how I am testing it :

                  • I compiled and installed with

                  make PDINCLUDEDIR=/usr/local/include/libpd/
                  (some .h files like g_canvas.h were needed so I copied them to /usr/local/include/libpd/ from https://github.com/giuliomoro/pure-data)

                  make PDINCLUDEDIR=/usr/local/include/libpd/ PDLIBDIR=/root/Bela/projects/pd-externals/ install

                  alt text

                  These are the first three lines of this _main.pd:
                  #N canvas 381 151 391 472 10;
                  #X declare -path ~/Bela/projects/pd-externals/timbreIDLib;
                  #X obj 35 37 declare -path ~/Bela/projects/pd-externals/timbreIDLib
                  ;

                  When I try it, I only get in the infamous "error: ... couldn't create":
                  - I tested it with the rPi binary: same result.

                  - I copied timbreIDLib.pd_linux to ~/Bela/projects/pd-externals.
                  - I tried with [zeroCrossing~] and [timbreIDLib/zeroCrossing~] as well as with various versions of the [declare]

                  Is there anything I am not considering here?
                  Thanks in advance!!

                    are you 100% sure the path is [timbreIDLib/zeroCrossing~] and not something like [timbreID/zeroCrossing~]?
                    just thinking out loud

                    in the install.txt file included with the library, there's this line:

                    C:/Users/Your Name/Documents/Pd/externals/timbreID/timbreIDLib

                    and also:
                    assuming timbreID is installed to the default Externals Install Directory, you can simply use the [declare] object like this:
                    [declare -lib timbreID/timbreIDLib]

                    which would imply that the lib object is created within a new timbreID folder.
                    so you might be directing pd to a place that simply does not exist.

                    maybe try [declare -lib ~/Bela/projects/pd-externals/timbreID/timbreIDLib], adding this extra folder level to the search path?

                    Thanks @Remork !!
                    it is weird how this had to be referenced but yes, as you suggested I had to add the /timbreID/ level in "~/Bela/projects/pd-externals" -> it worked!!

                    For future people interested in timbreIDLib, this worked for me:

                    • timbreIDLib.pd_linux has to be in ~/Bela/projects/pd-externals/timbreID/timbreIDLib and NOT in ~/Bela/projects/pd-externals/timbreIDLib
                    • I used the following [declare] objects: [declare -path ~/Bela/projects/pd-externals/timbreID/timbreIDLib] and [declare -lib ~/Bela/projects/pd-externals/timbreID/timbreIDLib]
                    • Using these [declare] objects the objects can be called directly without prefix e.g. [zeroCrossing~]

                    this is the capture of the patch:

                    alt text

                    great that you got that working!
                    looks like a weird lib 🙂 what are you using it for?

                      oh wow! looks great!