Le vendredi 08 juin 2007 à 21:35 +0200, Georg Holzmann a écrit :
Hallo!
However, I only wanted to say that the goal of pd-extended is exactly what you described -
So I have to conclude that pd-extended seriously need a kind of interface that would help going directly to the stuff we need. Not really a browser, a 'workstation' set of abstraction would be more versatile, I believe; memento could be the preset manager part of this workstation, for giving a little clue, and gridflow would be the cherry at the topside of the cake (maybe I went too far again).
Excuse-me for being so redondant, for example in net-pd, if we want to use a synth, we just have to open a synth, a mixtable, and a master clock, and voila, we can play with the synth without scratching head for finding the good button to push, if we want drum boxes, we open drumboxes, a sequencer, and we can beat the rythm all in sync with the synths, just with several mouse clicks. This example shows how things might be handled from some part of pd-extended, a kind of modular interface that could be able to make functionning all the stuff inside.
of course it does not work yet and I don't know if it will work in future ...
What about trying first to build a 'lower' version of pd-extended where all the inefficient stuff and their depending things would be simply supressed? It would make a kind of stable release, for starting on a clean environment. Also the actual version of pd-extended would continue it's road, fighting against bugs, swallowing each new technology, but with the awareness of being an 'unstable release'.
And you are invited to help - cleaning up some patches, adding comments, include out-of-the-box examples,
Where would I submit corrected files?
... everything you described is really useful and appreciated.
Nice to read!
LG Georg
Patko.