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<\/p>\nwork in progress. not published.<\/p>\n
I needed a text to morse code generator in Max for the Twitter streaming map project. There was an ancient one that used [mxj] but its kind of a pain to use that object. I thought it can\u2019t be that difficult to write one? I didn\u2019t really have any idea where to start. Something about the blank Max patch causes brain activity? I went through about 5 different approaches. Eventually came up with this pattern thing, from thinking about the lighted buttons on the tr-808 drum machine.<\/p>\n
For example, the letter A is . _ (dot dash)<\/p>\n
morse code has rules for spacing:<\/p>\n
dot = 1
\nspace between tones = 1
\ndash = 3
\nspace between letters = 3
\nspace between words = 7<\/p>\n
If you think of a drum machine pattern, the pattern for letter A would be: 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 \u00a0(with the 3 trailing 0\u2019s for letter spacing)<\/p>\n
I made a [coll] with all the letter patterns indexed by ascii codes.<\/p>\n
Then just concatenate letter patterns, for a given block of text, \u00a0together into one big list and run it through [zl.nth] clocked by a [metro] and [counter]. the ones and zero\u2019s turn an oscillator on and off.<\/p>\n
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local file: tkzic\/internetsensors\/twitter-stream2\/morse5.maxpat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
work in progress. not published. I needed a text to morse code generator in Max for the Twitter streaming map project. There was an ancient one that used [mxj] but its kind of a pain to use that object. I thought it can\u2019t be that difficult to write one? I didn\u2019t really have any idea … <\/p>\n