I would suggest you check out Composing Interactive Music<http://www.amazon.com/Composing-Interactive-Music-Techniques-Ideas/dp/0262731398>by Todd Winkler which covers using MAX to do lots of fun stuff with midi. Naturally, you can implement most of the examples in PD. I bought this book and went through the whole thing, making the example patches as I went.
If you want more of the technical bones behind this stuff, I'd also recommend Machine Musicianship<http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Musicianship-Robert-Rowe/dp/0262681498/ref=pd_sim_b_title_4/102-4863673-2463332> by Karl Rowe. Although it is getting a bit dated (includes a cdrom with MAX patches for OS 9 :P), it really helped me a good grasp on how I could use midi in pd to do what I wanted. Anyway, those are two books that got me going in pd. Shoot, there is enough experience on this list to write better books then these focusing on pd! >Hallo, >Timothy Sikes hat gesagt: // Timothy Sikes wrote: > First of all, I want to thank everyone for the tremendous help you > guys gave me to start PD a day or two ago. I think parts of PD have > finally started to sink in. Whoever told me not to think of PD so > procedurally, or orderly, really helped. Right now, I am getting > the benefits of my labor by listening to a loop that goes from midi > sound 50 -100 then loops again... and again..... Alright, now for > the stuff I don't get! So, my next project I would like to tackle > to better understand PD is to have it play a simple midi C scale. > Some of the things that I want to understand better is the 'select' > object, and what happens when an outlet is connected to it, how to > use the equality (>, <=) symbols accurately, and how they work in > PD. I have already looked at the examples that came with it, and > they just confused me: When I took them out at started it over, it > seemed to work just fine. This is the 'more counting' one, and > when I remove the >= 0 boxes, it still works, plus they're not > really explained at all.Thanks again! -- Dan Wilcox danomatika www.robotcowboy.com
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