Sorry if I cannot look into it better at the moment, I’m in the middle of relocating to a new country. I should be done in a week or two though, and will have a better look at the questions I’ve gotten on Mother after that.

In the meantime, make sure you are using the pure data extended version, as that is the one that the controller example has been used with.

Your problem should be simple to solve, as it entails sending OSC messages using PD, which is an often used and well documented feature, so you should be nearly there

Regards,
Ilias B.

Yes, as it says in the documentation, background() should be left out, but you did point me in the direction to what was the issue: I was calling colorMode(RGB, 2). with the second argument ‘2′ defining the range of the values for color() from 0.0 to 2.0. Mother seems to override colorMode back to the default (colorMode(RGB, 255)), so no wonder I couldn’t see anything.

Does Mother have colorMode as a global value for all synths? Is it possible to set it? It should go into the documentation though.

My next issue is a difference in the rendering:
http://forum.processing.org/#Topic/25080000000016200

thanks for your help. I’ll send you some synths as well later to start the repository.

Sorry to be a bit vague in my answers right now, I’m in the middle of moving to Barcelona from London, and so have no regular internet access and a lot of planning to think about…

Firstly, the black background issue is easy to address: in any processing sketch, for each frame you draw, you have the option of either clearing the screen by filling it with a single color (black in hour case), or leaving the previous frame drawn, and drawing on top of it.

This is in Processing achieved with the Background(x) call. Simply skip this call in your draw() function, and the sketches should stack on top of each other as intended!

Secondly, have you managed to create Processing sketches that use OpenGL within Eclipse? There is a lot of info on this on the Processing forum, and is the basic prerequisite for subsequently being able to run Mother in Eclipse.

If you have, just get back to me, and I will email you the latest eclipse project for Mother!

As for the synth repository, indeed, it would do a lot to make using Mother easier to use Perhaps, while waiting for a proper repository, people could just send me their synths, and I could include them in the latest Mother release, as a simple workaround to making a proper website, which I’m not in a position to make…

Thanks for your interest, do let me know how you get along!

Regards,
Ilias B.

I’m having the problem with many of my sketches that export to Mother that they only show as black covering the whole view and hogging the cpu (while they work fine in Processing).

I read from the documentation that you are working on getting debugging info from Mother to pd/max but that this already works when running Mother in Eclipse from source. If anyone has the knowledge of how to set up Mother in Eclipse and would care to explain it in a how-to form, it would be highly appreciated, and save people (at least me) a lot of head scratching .

again – thanks a lot for nice software! and +1 on the synth repository idea!

I’ve had the idea for that for very long, I vaguely remember discussing it with you as well at some point.

I just don’t have the know-how to set up something like that, my web development skills are restricted to switching between wordpress themes

Also at the moment I am more than busy with finishing my PhD thesis in time for a deadline…

If you do set something up I would be delighted to contribute with sketches however, and linking to whatever you make from all the Mother websites and documentation!

A good idea would also be to perhaps add an option to OpenProcessing, of attaching Mother code. Just a thought of course, I don’t know how easy that would be either.

Speak to you soon

How about we get some sort of repository of Synths going??
I would like to co-ordinate this with your oversight…

It would be a good way to get more people sharing and contributing to the project…

I’m even more excited than you hearing my program is getting used by interesting people

Indeed, I notice my Max patch example doesn’t contain the code, that is just an oversight, I will email it to you immediately, put it on the website, and make sure I include it in the next release!

Thank you for your interest, and let me know if there’s anything else you’d like to ask.

Regards,
Ilias Bergstrom

The only thing I was wondering is if you might release an unlocked version of the max controller you ship with the software.

Unless I’m missing system there is no way in your demo controller application to add new synths as the file is locked.

I tried to copy and re-write the max patch manually but I got lost.

Any help appreciated, because this is the perfect bridge I have been looking for. Basically I need to switch between Processing apps for a theater production I am doing without have access to a mouse and keyboard and without the screen going to desktop or whatever, – brilliant, thanks for the work.

Thanks again ^^