File:VisualTracker - modular Pd environment for sequencing events on timeline.pdf

VisualTracker – modular pd environment for sequencing events on timeline Aleš ČERNÝ Prague, Czech Republic VisualTracker is linear sequencer built in pd allowing users easily integrate their own time based abstractions and execute them in compositions graphically visualized on a timeline. Once this abstraction (called module) is dynamically loaded into environment a shared connector abstraction automatically links the user program with essential features of the VisualTracker environment and creates its visual representation on gui[1] timeline[2] to control its timing. Shifting these module representations in separate window and grouping them into tracks provides a very intuitive and user friendly way to create compositions of various program events and also control their output routing. Fully integrated system for saving module data and compositions is implemented. Keywords sequencer, gui, timeline, output routing, saving system