String handling inside of framelib networks

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This is a lot of fun. Granulating around whole polybuffers~ is so powerful!

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Thank you, Alex!

I’ve been thinking of making a YouTube episode about my idea of a “perfect” granular synth. And I think that the framelib was the missing link.

Now I’m super excited to do it!

And yes, dancing around polybuffers is SO powerful!!! Thank you!

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WOOOOOOOW! Super niiice! Also with the existence of fl.lookupstring~ it makes much more sense to me to have fl.makestring~ too (in terms of naming).

If it’s not much work, I would love the option. But it leads to the question of how many elements you can define as arguments, probably something in the 10s? I guess the normalized lookup will be more useful when you’ll implement the large lookup table/dataset for strings.

A (possibly dumb) question: where can I get the fl.makestring~ and fl.lookupstring~ externals for Windows? I see @james.bradbury is already using it, and I am drooling… :)))

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Someone will have to go to the bad place and compile them :zipper_mouth_face:

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I would happily try my luck with that, but I don’t even see the code on github, it’s probably in a private branch?

Update: found it! It’s the develop branch. Well, I’ll try my best, then. :))

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There aren’t VS projects for the new objects yet. I’ll try to get that done soon.

Currently you can do up to 32 strings for lookupstring~ because each string is a parameter. That to me would cover all the cases where you’d be mapping enums in a specific way. For super long sample lists etc. there will be another object that works differently. I’m imagining though that often you’ll want to randomise the strings, so normalised lookup might be neat - it’s maybe 3-5 lines of code, so easy to do.

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I don’t ever use private branches, so unless it’s in my working copy only it should be on GitHub.

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Yes, sorry, it was just my GitHub-rookiness, then I found the dev branch, which I have cloned now. Not pretending that I know what I’m doing, but I’ll google and try.

Oh that would be super helpful, thanks a lot! <3

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OK - the VS projects now exist. You need to put GitHub - Cycling74/max-sdk-base: Headers, libs, and scripts for Max external development parallel at the same level as the main repo.

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Thank you, Alex! I’ll try and let you know. <3

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Finally had the time to build, all seems to work well, thanks so much! :heart:
fl_polybuffer_fun

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Thats a lot of grains!

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Great!

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I’ve now added a normalised mode to fl.lookupstring~ which is good for randomising parameters easily (fl.random~ into fl.lookupstring~) - set by the scale parameter.

If anyone here had (or wanted to make) some examples of the two string objects for use in help files that would speed up release. Also let me know if you want to get builds with the new feature (all work is on a branch called “develop”)

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This is a tasty feature. Will give it a whirl sometime soon