On 11/15/2014 08:37 PM, João Martins wrote:
Thank you all. I-score seems very promising and I'll look into it and the kollabs/ds library.
Peter nailed the issue spot on. All that Pd allows me to do has made my work and my thought processes evolve and that's amazing. In the "real world", however, I rely on technicians who do not use it and I always have to find ways to make friendlier interfaces. Most of the times, I end up operating things myself and that's absurd: theatre plays where I'm stuck for the entire run, with the venue's sound tech by my side, not doing it because it's not the "play/pause, fade in/out, cross fade on a mixer's knobs and faders, kind of thing"… Of course I can go the commercial way and use Qlab. The thing is: if I can get technicians to work with Qlab (I did that, already), could I build something myself? I-score and kollabs/ds, attached to an external controller (there are cheap MIDI / DJ options who are just like the "regular stuff"), could do the trick. I'll keep searching for that balance between flexible and customized performance control and ease of use for "others". And yes, I'm aware of the dangers of trying to reinvent the wheel.
All the best,
João Martins
For a few shows that needed the more advanced audio handling capabilities of Pd, I used this: http://stackingdwarves.net/public_stuff/software/CueFrog/CueFrog-0.0.4-Scree...
Basically, just a bit of bling around readanysf~. But Pd's abysmal string handling capabilities have been the major roadblock that prevented me from developing it further. I still like to use Pd for shows I'm running myself, but those I hand off, I gladly rely on QLAB and sleep soundly at night :) (just premiered another one where I was forced to use the latest QLAB on the latest mac os version that got released only a few days before, was scared out of my wits but got lucky :)