Josh Lawrence wrote:
Hey everyone!
I've been a member of this list and a puredata list for some time now.
I've been hoping that the magic of pd would just "sink" into my head.
:) I'm very much a learn-by-doing person, as such "cookbooks" do me
a lot of good. It would be nice if some such cookbook existed for pd.
Most everything I see is "how to make a synth patch", which in my
opinion isn't very useful b/c one could easily find a full-blown synth
anywhere (a la ams, amsynth, whysynth-dssi, etc.).
What interests me most are the ways that people use pd that don't have
anything to do with synthesis. I see references made to controlling
motors, using it as a "glue" between audio applications, triggering,
etc. Maybe pd can be used as a generic live interface to other
synths? Complicated MIDI processing/routing? Alas, I've been unable
to find anything that specifically talks about this. To make matters
worse, I see _lots_ of posts asking about loading synths (dssi, vsti,
etc.), but most of the answers revolve around "sorry, that feature
isn't really mature yet..."
So this is my call for help - if you have any information, bookmarks,
etc. on this type of stuff, please let me know. I'd love to read up
on it! :)
I think a good start we be to use the wiki - i would propose we start a
documentation area that discusses more involved ways people use puredyne
rather than the simple howto's on various specific applications..
I think a good template to start with would be case studies of how
various projects people using puredyne are implemented using the
puredyne system. This would require a bit of work, in particual,
rigourous self documentation which isn't always at the forefront of a
workflow process but is indeniabaly benificial. So lets make a start
on it and not be afraid of putting something on the wiki that may not be
fully complete or comprehesable to the average user, so long as we make
a start...
maybe we should make this something that is not easy to stumble across
when casually browsing the wiki otherwise we might frighten away new
users that are making first steps using GNU/Linux and are just coming to
grips with the idea of using a terminal :)
we all talk about how the modualarity of GNU/Linux is its biggest asset
- lets have some examples of this in the context of puredyne and media
art projects.
rob
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