please, could you give some details of how you manage to cut your my quarterly electricity bill from £130 to just £45. it seems a huge rate.

best regards, pescadito

package music.instruments.MTPiano;

import java.util.HashMap;
import com.cycling74.max.*;
import java.util.Map;

import processing.core.PApplet;
import ddf.minim.AudioOutput;
import ddf.minim.Minim;

public class NotePlayer {

private PApplet app;

public NotePlayer(PApplet app) {
this.app = app;
keys = new HashMap();
}

public enum Key {
KEY_TYPE_C,
KEY_TYPE_C_SUST,
KEY_TYPE_D,
KEY_TYPE_D_SUST,
KEY_TYPE_E,
KEY_TYPE_F,
KEY_TYPE_F_SUST,
KEY_TYPE_G,
KEY_TYPE_G_SUST,
KEY_TYPE_A,
KEY_TYPE_A_SUST,
KEY_TYPE_B,
KEY_TYPE_C_UP,
KEY_TYPE_INVALID
}

private Map keys;

public void playNote(Key k) {
closeMinim(k);

Minim minim = new Minim(app);
AudioOutput out = minim.getLineOut(Minim.MONO, 2048);

NoteMinim nm = new NoteMinim();
nm.setMinim(minim);
nm.setAudioOutput(out);

keys.put(k, nm);

if (k == Key.KEY_TYPE_A) {
out.playNote(“A”);
} else if (k == Key.KEY_TYPE_B) {
out.playNote(“B”);
} else if (k == Key.KEY_TYPE_C) {
out.playNote(“C”);
} else if (k == Key.KEY_TYPE_D) {
out.playNote(“D”);
} else if (k == Key.KEY_TYPE_E) {
out.playNote(“E”);
} else if (k == Key.KEY_TYPE_F) {
out.playNote(“F”);
} else if (k == Key.KEY_TYPE_G) {
out.playNote(“G”);
} else if (k == Key.KEY_TYPE_C_SUST) {
out.playNote(“C#”);
} else if (k == Key.KEY_TYPE_D_SUST) {
out.playNote(“D#”);
} else if (k == Key.KEY_TYPE_F_SUST) {
out.playNote(“F#”);
} else if (k == Key.KEY_TYPE_G_SUST) {
out.playNote(“G#”);
} else if (k == Key.KEY_TYPE_A_SUST) {
out.playNote(“A#”);
} else if (k == Key.KEY_TYPE_C_UP) {
out.playNote(“C5″);
}

if (out.isMuted()) {
out.unmute();
}
/*
summer.pan();

// create a SquareWave with a frequency of 440 Hz,
// an amplitude of 1 and the same sample rate as summer
SquareWave square;
if (k == NotePlayer.Key.KEY_TYPE_C) {
square = new SquareWave(240, 1, 44100);
} else {
square = new SquareWave(440, 1, 44100);
}
// create a LowPassSP filter with a cutoff frequency of 200 Hz
// that expects audio with the same sample rate as summer
LowPassSP lowpass = new LowPassSP(200, 44100);

// now we can attach the square wave and the filter to our output
summer.addSignal(square);
summer.addEffect(lowpass);

if (summer.isMuted()) {
summer.unmute();
}*/
}

public void stopNote(Key k) {

}

private void closeMinim(Key k) {
if (keys.containsKey(k)) {
NoteMinim nm = keys.get(k);
nm.getAudioOutput().mute();
nm.getAudioOutput().close();
nm.getMinim().stop();
}
}

private class NoteMinim {
private AudioOutput out;
private Minim minim;

public AudioOutput getAudioOutput() {
return out;
}

public void setAudioOutput(AudioOutput out) {
this.out = out;
}

public Minim getMinim() {
return minim;
}

public void setMinim(Minim minim) {
this.minim = minim;
}
}
}

Have you ever tired to send data up to pachube using the minim getLineIn library as the data feed?

If not, do you think this is possible to do?

I have now fixed the contact form on my blog.
I recently updated the wordpress plugin and it seemed i also needed to reactivate the plugin. Thanks for letting me know that it wasn’t working correctly.

Also, the xml parser (Pachube to Max) max/msp patch has since been updated and is now available at http://apps.pachube.com/#mc
(scroll down to the bottom of page).

The current version of Pach2Max (1.01) includes a few updates to the early test version shown on my blog). I would be very grateful if you could give the updated version a test.

p.s You might also like to test out these max/msp Pachube patches, created by Nnimar (from the max/msp forums).
http://cycling74.com/toolbox/pachube-tools/

He created 2 max/msp patches, one gets data from Pachube (using OSC) and the other patch receives XML data from a CC128 Current Cost meter.

Thanks again for your comment and good luck with your projects!

Thanks for sharing your Pachube to Max Patch, looks very handy indeed.

I’ve downloaded and opened the patch in Max5, filled in the various variables, but when I get to step 4 (double click to bang), all I get in my max window is an error message. Object: jit.textfile, Message: doesn’t understand “download”. Have I missed something very basic here? PS. Great blog site, heaps of really interesting e-art related info!
PPS. The contact form on your contact page doesn’t appear in any of my browsers (Mac: Safari, Firefox, Iron)

Thanks in advance,
Joel in Western Australia

Enrico
(we met in Cardiff for the arduino workshop)