--- On Fri, 3/19/10, Frank Barknecht <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Frank Barknecht <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PD] Pd, Max/Msp, Reaktor, Plogue Bidule... How do these, > compare? > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, March 19, 2010, 7:08 PM > Hallo, > Pierre Massat hat gesagt: // Pierre Massat wrote: > > > Another thing that'd be nice to make available for new > users would be a > > comprehensive set of generic patches, which would > cover the whole range of > > DSP audio. A little bit like Puckette's audio help > patches, only on a higher > > level (stuff like a basic drum machine, a > comprehensive synth, granular > > synthesis, etc). I know that these aren't impossible > to find, but it'd be > > nice to have it all in the same place. > > The "rj" library developed for the creation of RjDj scenes, > but also usable > outside, tries exactly that. It is all abstractions, all > run on Pd vanilla, no > externals, not complicated -path setup needed, it has IMO > pretty good help > files (I wrote most, so I have to say this) and it provides > a lot of everyday > musician's tools plus some analysis and composition > helpers. > > It's deliberatly minimal, so that it doesn't overwhelm a > newbie user with > hundreds of objects. It's philosophy is "often-needed > batteries included". For > example, from [list]-abs it has a "listmap", "listdrip", > "listreduce", > "listfilter", "listrandom" and "listnth", but not the other > 50 or so list > objects. The included objects will solve about 80% of your > everyday list-use, > for the rest, you can still resort to the full [list]-abs > objects. Similar > approaches have been taken for other areas. > > So far it has proven to be a successful base for many > interesting music pieces > written in Pd for RjDj. Check out trac.rjdj.me for details. > > > Ciao > -- > Frank I'd just add that one could start from the end of 3.audio.examples and 4.data.structures to get a decent overall idea of what Pd is capable of doing. The only problem with this currently is that those patches are quite understandably not the most beginner-friendly ones-- something like doc/4.data.structures/14.partialtracer.pd probably looks fairly intimidating to a beginner. But if it were organized a little and given some friendly controls (plus maybe a feature to write the re-edited tracks to a .wav file) there's no reason a beginner couldn't start there and other places to get some pretty interesting sounds out of the computer. -Jonathan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
