Stick with it. Keep a comfortable machine (if you've got an extra one) for music making and get puredyne on another. i honestly think the rewards are worth the effort. you may have some frustration and perhaps some hardware that just won't ever work (i have an mbox sitting unused just mocking my $450 investment) but most things will given a little time and patience. and every piece of troubleshooting is a wonderful (and frustrating) learning experience. you'll end up learning a lot more than you ever need to know to make music, and sometimes the computer work takes away from music making. I can't speak for everyone, but the initial Vim experience is incredibly disheartening. i felt like i was either too stupid to understand what was happening or that vi was the stupidest text editor ever. i think emacs is a bit easier as a beginner actually, but it is very deep. i think the gedit suggestion is probably a good one, but i'm not really a supercollider user.
puredyne and linux might prevent you from music making for a little while, but i think its totally worth it. i was also a mac user at one point. came to this world out of financial necessity. its taken a long time but i find a lot of enjoyment making sound in this world. On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Dave Britton <[email protected]> wrote: > Tyler Leavitt wrote: > >> I second what Dan S said about gedit.... just looked it up and the plugin >> is called "Sced" and it is installed on puredyne (9.11 atleast). >> > gedit is about as easy as a text editor can get. It's notepad for linux, > only better. > > > > Axel wrote: > > My questions: > >> >> - Is there a chance I can do what I want with Puredyne or should I just >> give >> up and go back into the cozy arms of corporatism? >> > Yes and no. > > > - If the answer to the first question is yes, can someone give me some >> clues >> as to how to achieve it? >> > see below > > > - Is there a text editor that's actually usable with SC? >> > yup, > >> - If yes, how???? >> > like this: > > > I'm running SC with gedit under puredyne 9.11, so all of this works for me: > > Start gedit from the Accessories group of the main menu, then click Tools > to see if you have "supercollider mode" installed. If not, get > "supercollider-gedit" via synaptic package manager (main menu/System). When > you have gedit with supercollider mode available under tools, just click on > the select box to activate it. You will see a double panel - the top is your > editor, the lower one is the supercollider text output where "postln" sends > its text. Type in a supercollider command, select it by highlighting or just > put the mouse on that single line, and press Ctl-E, and the command will be > executed. Try these lines: > > s.boot; > {SinOsc.ar}.play; > > That s.boot starts the SC server, without which SinOsc makes neither signal > nor noise. > > You should have gotten the graphical server displays installed (SwingOSC > gui) when you installed SC in puredyne, and if so they will have appeared in > the lower left of your screen when you started SC by clicking on > Supercollider Mode. (You can start the SC server by clicking the gui boot > button instead of executing s.boot.) If not, the server control commands are > available in gedit within its newly appearing Supercollider menu selection, > and later you should figure out how to get them installed correctly. > > Now proceed to the supercollider main help page that is installed on your > puredyne machine at (browse to:) > file:///usr/share/SuperCollider/Help/Help.html > > and work through the tutorials. Also, get yourself signed up on the SC > mailing list, and use that for SC newbie questions instead of the puredyne > list cause people will know more. > http://supercollider.sourceforge.net// > http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/research/sc_mailing_lists.shtml > > Good luck with all this - the SC community is great, but the language is > tough to get your head around at first. Stay with it, and try to figure out > why the examples work, what they are doing. > > -Dave > > > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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