hi Frank,
Frank Barknecht wrote: ...
I'm not sure: I learned quite a bit from reading Max tutorials when I was starting to learn Pd some years ago. And OTOH if you read a book like "Machine Musicianship" whose examples are Max patches, you still can adopt their concepts to Pd.
Rowe is mostly C++. The Max patches are very simple ircam-max. Most of them on the CD load nicely through cyclone with only slight adjustments: saving abstractions first with proper names (Pd is case-sensitive), replacing #s with $s here and there, etc.
Krzysztof