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ppooll

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---klaus filip------------------------------------------------
---oliver stotz----------------------------------------------
---boris hauf-----------------------------------------------
---gilles aubry---------------------------------------------
---david michael------------------------------------------
---noid-------------------------------------------------------
---bill d------------------------------------------------------
---luc gross------------------------------------------------
---paulo raposo-------------------------------------------
---AntonioDellaMarina----------------------------------
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---clemens hausch---------------------------------------
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Introduction

ppooll is a software written in MaxMSP designed for live-improvising, interactive installations, etc...

ppooll (lloopp before) started as a sample-based loop-machine with plug-ins in 1998 (MacOS9), as a shared performance-patch of Klaus Filip. The open architecture of the patch invited other programmers to join in and ppooll grew to a modular instrument with a lot of functionalities on generating and manipulating sounds, and at least a basic open door to video.

Logically, ppooll was ported to OSX in around 2003. Since Fall 2005, the totally revised hybrid version for OSX and WindowsXP is available. Besides of the availability on XP, the aim of this new version was to make it very easy to integrate new modules into ppooll.

Main developers of the current version is again Klaus Filip together with noid (Arnold Haberl).

ppooll is freeware, open-source, please note that it is copyleft.

ppooll is written by artists who use this very software for their performances. MaxMSP/Jitter is a programming environment specialized for digital media performing or installations. It covers audio, video, sensors, data-management and like most programming-languages, it can help realizing any artistic concepts in this field.

ppooll built in MaxMSP, is a ready-made interface, facing artists who don't want to learn how to program but want more from a software, than usually offered by commercial releases.

It is written by artists that use it for their own performances carried by the idea, that sharing helps to increase the quality of the artistic outputs and saves a lot of time.

ppooll is under permanent development, used by many performers all around the World, who push the tool with new needs and create a network of artists working in different domains.

When speaking of various artists, ppooll is used by Christian Fennesz, Keiko U. (o.blaat), Taku Unami, Christof Kuzmann, Paulo Raposo, Alessandro Fogar and many others...

Anybody who is into Max-Programming is invited to join in. Refer to the .help-section for building new patches and use our lloopp-list for communication. Any ideas are welcomed as well.

ppooll needs MaxMSP installed. The visual part of ppooll needs Jitter.

Both packages can be downloaded as free runtime-versions from the site... MaxMSP/Jitter Runtime

It is a good idea to get the newest version of MaxMSP/Jitter Runtime

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Modular Architecture

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One of the most powerful features of ppooll is its networking structure. Every parameter can be controlled from any module and audio-routing similarly goes in any direction. Some 100 different modules (so-called "Acts", can interact.

Every user can create his/her personal setup consisting of any combination of available modules and saves this as a so-called "Environment"

Screenshot for Los Glissandinos By Klaus Filip:

This environment is an additive-synth example. The circle-shaped central patch (vbap@) is used to route modulating signals to the sinewaves.

Screenshot "homemade" By visualartproyektil: This setup was used to project pixel animations on 4 screens. The pictures were sensor-controlled by the dancers. (Interactive dance/video/audio performance imagetanz Vienna 2006).

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Screenshot of "selbstschenkerin" By noid:

Interactive audio installation working with randomly delayed microphone inputs. ("Der Ohrenzeuge" Nickelsdorf 2005) Photo From The Installation...

3 Different Layouts Of The Same Module - Besides that every module has an own customizable preset-handling as well as the possibility to create individual layouts.

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Programming Support

As mentioned earlier, it is fairly easy to communicate with, or integrate own Max-Patches. An object called "Actmaker" turns a Max-Patch instantly into a ppooll-act and there are templates for common tasks, like audio in-out, video in-out and presets.

Subscribe to our ppooll-list for bug-reports, update-information, and feedback. Using this link here will open your mail application, with a mail ready-to-send. You don't need to put any subject or body in your mail. Subscriber information will come to your mailbox soon after that.

There is also a public archive

ppooll thankfully includes objects from following authors respectively collections (individual licenses are nested in the according help-folders): bill orcutt, CNMAT, jasch, jhno, kirisits, nathan wolek, olaf mathes, PeRColate, peter elsea, puckette-apel, RTC, thomas grill, tristan jehan, ville pulkki, Jean-Michel Couturier, Frederik Olofsson, michale norris, jeremy bernstein, Stephania Serafin, Joshua Kit Clayton, Masayuki Akamatsu, barry threw.

And/Or : Do A Donation

Have Fun, Speak Up! :)

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acts

ho_st

analyze@

arpanner

autocount@

beast

beauty

bildsynthi

buffer_host

buffub

chaos

control@

distort@

el.waveshape

envMM

feedbacker

fffb@

flop

fmrm

forbiddenP

frack

freeverb@

frequenzteiler

gg.rainer

gizmo@

GLhost

GLplatonic

gverb@

hardplay

harmolist

INa

INmulti

jit.2oscbank

jit.brcosa@

jit.buffer@

jit.chromakey@

jit.copyprot.act

jit.release@

jit.theremin@

jit.videoout@

jit.videoplanes

jit.videowall

jit.wrapper

jit.xfade@

jit.zoom@

kaos@

kk.rainer

LFFO

ll.google_earth

midikeys

MIDIsampler@

modul.ator

movekeys

mp3@

multiQ

multitap

munger@

net@

noise@

noize@

normalize

op@

oscbank@

overdrive@

parRouteMult

peakfinder

peakfollow@

PEQ@

pr6rooves

prdelay@

prejNTdelay

presetsurfer

prfftfreeze@

prHARM4@

random0_1-

random@

rec@

rec_events

rez@

rm@

scramble@

SDIFter

sigOp

simpledelay

simproov

sins

sinus

sms@

snap@

sonogram@

spectral_sins

svf2@

table@

vbap@

wavelets

wf@

wii@

wrapfilter

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Screenshots

screenshots