this is an experimental way to allow dynamic repatching in PD and do livecoding just using pure data.

livecoding requires – 1) an obscure language – pure data is a dataflow programming language 2) an obscure text editor – well I cant think of a more arcane one than a visual programming language so check that off for pure data too.

Known limitations – it’s a little crashy – the List message box doesn’t like backspaces.

32 bit floats lose precision and can make it a seem a little wonky – not all patches will sound the same because Pure Data uses 32 bit floats for effeciency. so objects with / % >> will effectively “chop” off and the patch will sound different than a real bytebeat (or whatever you use this for) after a while or seem like it can just plain quit. The numbers either got too small or too big to work with 32 bit floats.

Another thing about 32 bit floats, the biggest number PD can count to is 1.6772e+07

Pure data also squashes numbers you get 123456 digits. 1234560 turns into 1.23456e+06. In comments this gets changed after you close, reopen so try cut/paste.

Also I noticed sending 0 into [expr] in the variables makes it unhappy and crash so I avoided it making x and y 1 or bigger.

Anyway – check out https://vimeo.com/846032786 to see it in action – and if you want o use this for something else remove anything connected before and after the spigot objects.

public domain / unlicense / fishcrystals out

as posted at https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/14429/bytebeat-and-dynamic-repatching-pd-as-a-livecode-environment