RabbitControl for Pd/Max

RabbitControl allows you to control parameters (values) in an easy way.

Expose parameters from Pd/Max and use a rcp client to remotely control your patch.
Or use the rcp.client object in Pd/Max to control parameters on a remote rcp server.

More information:

https://rabbitcontrol.cc
https://github.com/rabbitcontrol/

Pd

Please find and install the external "RabbitControl" via deken (Find externals...) and load it as library rcp.

Prebuilt Binaries

You can find prebuild binaries in releases

Bela-board users please use: RabbitControl-pd-1.0.4-linux-armv7l.zip

-> RabbitControl on Bela

There are two very useful articles how to get started with RabbitControl on Bela:
https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=9732
https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=9714

Max

Until RabbitControl is available in the package-manager, a pre-built package for Windows and macos can be downloaded from releases

To use the package extract the zip-file to e.g.:
~/Max 8/Packages/

known issues (Max only):

• help-patches don't open -> use RabbitControl Overview.maxpat or open the help-patches manually.

Building the external

In order to build Rabbitcontrol (rcp), a C++11 standard compliant compiler is required.

Clone this repository:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/rabbitControl/rcp-flext.git

macOS / Linux

$ cd rcp-flext
$ cp Makefile_darwin_linux Makefile
$ make -j 8

Windows mingw

Rename Makefile_mingw to Makefile and run make in a mingw-console

> make -j 8

Cross compiling for bela

To cross compile for bela, get the sysroot from here:
https://github.com/thetechnobear/xcBela

$ git clone https://github.com/thetechnobear/xcBela

Rename Makefile_bela to Makefile and run make

Why?

Compiling rcp with SSL support on a Bela Mini fails due to too less memory.

One strategy is to cross-compile the classes, copy the object-files from 'sources' to your rcp-flext/sources folder on the bela-board and link on the bela-board running make - see how to compile for Linux.

Linking

To successfully link rcp on your host-machine additional liberaries are needed: create the following directories:

...path/to/xcBela/sysroot/usr/local/lib
...path/to/xcBela/sysroot/usr/xenomai

then use rsync to get the libraries from the board:

rsync -av root@bela.local:/usr/local/lib ...path/to/xcBela/sysroot/usr/local/
rsync -av root@bela.local:/usr/xenomai/lib ...path/to/xcBela/sysroot/usr/xenomai/

Copy the resulting rcp.pd_linux to the bela-board.