Olaf Matthes wrote
I often feel that I have to re-invent things in Pd that still have been
done by
other people. .... I think it would be nice to have a place where people can 'publish'
information
(ore URLs) about projects they have worked on just to get an impression
what is
possible and what has been done so far. This might also be a helpfull
resource
for newbies to learn all the 'old tricks' necessary to use Pd...
Norbert Math wrote :
miller once had the idea to make a web site which collects informations about projects which use pd. shall i start such a thing? i would really like to know what you all are using pd for...
Yes, that could be great. I'm still a Pd newbie, and i'm making equalizers, or samplers, for training. And I'm always thinking "It would be nice to get a lot of examples from the different users, and i'm sure someone else has done this or that before". It's nice to re-invent the wheel, it helps you to understand better, but sometimes, I would like to go on an website, click on "users/generic/reverbs" and find fifty differents reverb patches, with a little description of each patch and the mail adress to contact the person. Or "external/control" to find an external for joystick control. The Pure Data Base is a search engine so you can't easily access to the whole list of files with arborescence.
A website which collects informations about a lot of projects, with patches (even buggy), would be nice. And why not : collected informations about specific soundcard/system, like "I got a Soundblaster AWE64 with Redhat 6.2, I got glitches, but with options "- frags 5 -fragsize 11" and OSS drivers, it's allright". And a big links page with different sections : projects, external, sound drivers, useful signal theory, ...
Yes, we got Miller's page, pure-data.org, iem.kug.ac.at/pd/, Guenther Geiger's links page, but I think it could be a good idea to centralize this a bit more, and we should try to find the best way to share our knowledge about Pd.
Nicolas Lhommet