Hi Robert, Robert Jonsson hat gesagt: // Robert Jonsson wrote:
> Frank Barknecht wrote: > >I don't give much about these Buzz-Maschines. In fact, I have set up a > >decent working environment now by using PD as a synthesizer and sample > >player, controlled by Shaketracker. IMO this beats Buzz by miles ;) > > The difference being that buzz machines are prebuilt, hence much easier to > use for a musican. (Though pretty limited I would agree.) What I personally don't like is that they don't need to be open source, Buzz also isn't, or is it now? Buzz maschines in Soundtracker would load with a Wine dll loader mechanism, like the divx dll loads in avifile. Somehow I don't like that (although I do watch Futurama divx'es ;-) > Which brings me to a question, is there a library of patches for Pd > available somewhere? There are a lot of patches, but most are distributed around several websites. www.pure-data.org is a good, although a bit outdated start. Also a great place is the pd-wiki at http://iem.kug.ac.at/pdwiki/ and the Pure-Data-Base at http://iem.kug.ac.at/pdb, which is a searchable collection of patches and externals. The best is of course the mailing list pd-list, where all important patches are announced. Archived since 1998 at http://iem.kug.ac.at/mailinglists/pd-list/ One of the virtues of open source software, which a buzz machine can be, but often isn't, is that one could reuse the machines for writing a PD external object. I did this for example just yesterday with Juan Linietsky's DX7 emulator rx-saturno, which is now available as a PD instrument, too, at http://www.fbar.mynetcologne.de/get.html. The external still has several bugs (note-off is broken), that I with my minor knowledge of C++ cannot fix yet, but I hope, that someone will take my work and build upon it. That's the way, open source goes, as you know. One could also port rx-saturno to a LADSPA plugin, or a jackit client, and everyone could use it in their favourite hosts. bye, -- __ __ Frank Barknecht ____ ______ ____ __ trip\ \ / /wire ______ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / ____/ / / / // ____// /\ \\ ___\\____ \ /_/ /_____/ /_/ /_//_____// / \ \\_____\\_____\ /_/ \_\
