[PD] [PD-announce] Workshop: Switch from PureData! (Barcelona)

2011-05-02 Thread l'ull cec
Friday, 13.05.2011, 17:00-22:00h Workshop: Switch from PureData! (or MAX/MSP for that matter) Led by Fredrik Olofsson [ http://fredrikolofsson.com ] During this one-day workshop we will focus on the free software SuperCollider and show why programming with syntax can be both easier and superior

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Workshop: Switch from PureData! (Barcelona)

2011-05-02 Thread hard off
mick jagger prefers PD, so does david bowie. fair enough, andrew lloyd webber does all his operas in supercollider these days, but that guy did CATS in machine code, so he's pretty out there. ___ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Workshop: Switch from PureData! (Barcelona)

2011-05-02 Thread john saylor
greeting am i the only one who thinks it's odd to promote an anti-pd workshop on a pd list? i'm not saying the idea is wrong or bad [or good], just that it strikes me as not very well thought through to promote it here. like trying to drum up attendance at a easter service by posting to pagan

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Workshop: Switch from PureData! (Barcelona)

2011-05-02 Thread Pierre Massat
1 ) I love the easter comparison. 2 ) I believe that many Pd users are interested in writing music programs, and thus potentially interested in a conference about SuperCollider. I just don't understand why he felt the need to compare it to Pd. Pierre 2011/5/2 john saylor js0...@gmail.com

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Workshop: Switch from PureData! (Barcelona)

2011-05-02 Thread Bernardo Barros
It's not an anti-pd workshop per se... It's just about SuperCollider. The problem is with the promotion then? Consider the catching phrase just a joke to undo the opposite marketing strategy that graphical programming is better blah blah... ___

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Workshop: Switch from PureData! (Barcelona)

2011-05-02 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-05-02 16:02, john saylor wrote: greeting am i the only one who thinks it's odd to promote an anti-pd workshop on a pd list? well, i guess, asking people on the sc3 list to switch from Pd to SC is kind of pointless. fgamdr IOhannes

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Workshop: Switch from PureData! (Barcelona)

2011-05-02 Thread yvan volochine
On 05/02/2011 04:02 PM, john saylor wrote: am i the only one who thinks it's odd to promote an anti-pd workshop on a pd list? (derek was right =) who said it's an anti-pd workshop ? knowing fredrik, it should be more about using new tools. have a look at his website and you'll see what I

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Workshop: Switch from PureData! (Barcelona)

2011-05-02 Thread Pedro Lopes
Let people choose which they prefer, no harm in doing publicity to the workshop here - funny catch phrase for a workshop. I don't mind personally. I use both, and I each has its advantages (i.e: I cannot write/prototype with SC as fast as with PD). Best, Pedro On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:12 PM,

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Workshop: Switch from PureData! (Barcelona)

2011-05-02 Thread Tedb0t
Precisely. It's just weird to say switch, as though leaving Pd behind forever. I guess it was an attempt at catchy marketing but... ±±t3db0t On May 2, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Pedro Lopes wrote: Let people choose which they prefer, no harm in doing publicity to the workshop here - funny catch

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Workshop: Switch from PureData! (Barcelona)

2011-05-02 Thread l'ull cec
Hi John, am i the only one who thinks it's odd to promote an anti-pd workshop on a pd list? i'm not saying the idea is wrong or bad [or good], just that it strikes me as not very well thought through to promote it here. like trying to drum up attendance at a easter service by posting to

Re: [PD] [PD-announce] Workshop: Switch from PureData! (Barcelona)

2011-05-02 Thread john saylor
hi On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:27 AM, l'ull cec i...@lullcec.org wrote: Framing the workshop as an anti-pd activity seems a tad on the extremist side from here. ok, but that's how it reads: switch from pd [instead of supercollider is cool] i certainly am not interested in making us all use one