Adding my own pd patches and scripts

[Giedrius]

Hi, to browse files as the root user, you may press Alt+F2 and enter:

gksudo pcfileman

The gksudo part is for running a graphical application as a root user, and pcfileman is the name of the file browser on Raspbian.

To edit a file in the terminal, I use sudo nano ... where … is the file path to the file I want to change. sudo is for running commands as root. For example:

sudo nano /etc/pisound.conf (use Ctrl+O to save, Ctrl+X to exit, it will ask Y / N to confirm, you may press Ctrl+C to cancel)

@mrlematt

I tried to modify the pd launching script so it would open a mypatch.pd patch, but I can’t save the new script in the folder because I’m not logged as SU.

At the moment it would be better to put your patch in its own folder, and name the main entry point to it as main.pd, so the launch script works unmodified. You may also put your main.pd into a USB memory stick, clicking the button will then launch the first ‘main.pd’ found on the USB stick.

@mrlematt

Also, would it be complicated to make a button script that would open pd patches choosing them through a list/folder of patches ?

@oootini did that, to pick a patch based on the number of clicks: Adding more button clicks - #13 by oootini

Also stay tuned for our next update to the Pisound mobile app (only Android at the moment, iOS version will come later) - it will allow launching the selected patch easily.