Delays are helpful.

I thought and searched and experimented and repeated the process a couple more times before I found the function to make my Pd program work: “Delay.” Delay is a function that does exactly what you’d expect it to. Just make an object, name it “delay” and follow that with the argument of how much time you want it to wait after receiving a signal from the input before it sends a bang through the output. I noticed a couple of other people in the class had found it as well. Awesome.

I guess it’s a bug.

Ok, when working in Pd, I found that if I made a message to interpolate between the values of 0 and oh, let’s say 15, over maybe 4 seconds to be sent to a line that controls a sound. That sound will continue at that magnitude (15) unless it is stopped via control or disconnect. If you look closely at the section of my Primitive Techno Machine that the slider controls, you’ll see that I used another message to send a zero value to manually shut this effect off, which is in addition to the two message-line combo’s that simply create the rising and falling sounds. So keep that in mind if you use the message function to do such tasks, or any other function that works in a similar way. I’m sure there will be similar “bugs” there also.

I just uploaded my pd program.

Yup, just uploaded it. So check it out my Primitive Techno Machine.