Hallo, Tim Mortimer hat gesagt: // Tim Mortimer wrote:
I've had some experience with Max, & after recently beginning to explore csound, a subsequent desire to (at least think about..) going all open source, a desire to make some GUI stuff for csound, & to check out some PMPD examples (boing!), i'm taking (another) deep breath, & biting the bullet. so PD here we go...
So here's my initial questions/ want list.
- how's the "out the box GUI" situation compared to max? the objects
that get a real hammering from me (in Max) are Multislider & function (or better yet, the ej-ies JSUI function object) - is there a similar pair of "workhorses" ready to roll in PD?
There is no multislider for Pd, but for some uses you can just take an array instead. I don't know function, could you explain what it does?
- is pfft~ & all related fft functionality available & built/ patched/
managed in the same way?
The use of FFT in Pd is slightly different from Max, but the functionality is there. Just read the FFT-examples in the docs.
- is there an Lobjects or equivalent for pd?
[list] is your friend here. A lot of the Lobjects are somehow cloned in the [list]-abs collection of abstractions that's available on the CVS or as part of pd-extended. Just do a "-lib list-abs" there.
- what's the best source of documentation for PD? (given i have some
experience with Max, & spend much more time with the Reference manual than the tutorials at this stage.)
The best source are the files in "doc/*/*.pd", also you should read the HTML manual. It would be nice to have a kind of "Pd for Max converts" tutorial. Maybe you can take some notes of your experiences and put them on puredata.info? That would be so cool.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__