Rotary Encoders in Pure Data

Tim

Hi. Anyone have any expierence/ examples reading rotary encoders in pure data?

LiamDonovan

Tim there is a thread on using rotary encoders with Bela in C++ here and a fantastic tutorial by Till Bovermann on using them with SuperCollider here, if that helps at all.

nuromantix

All the info you need is here:
http://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/arduino-tutorial6-rotary-encoder

giuliomoro

this may be one of those things that are easier to do in C++ than PureData. Using libpd on Bela with a custom render file allows you to get the best of both worlds. Have a look at examples/08-PureData/customRender to see how to use one. You would have to edit the render() function in there to check for the pulses. Remember that you cannot use delay or sleep within render(), rather you will have to count samples , see for instance here

rargh

Hi!
I know this is an old thread, but I managed to get a basic rotary encoder working pretty well purely in PD, so here's my solution in case anyone else stumbles in here through search like I did:

The initial delay is for debouncing the input, and you might need to play around with the value to get something that works.

https://github.com/eetu-n/pd-generics/blob/main/encoder_test/rotary_encoder.pd

weightausend

rargh hi, did you use a custom .cpp render file for this or does it work just with PD?