Hi,
To be honest I think that using a single tool for everything will be seriously limiting (when you've got a hammer everything looks like a nail....or tubular bells:-)) - why not use PD to control reaktor (via a midi loopback or vst~). I use a wide variety of tools and tend to use things to their strengths.
Having said that trying to make things in pd can make all sorts of interesting instruments - I have an excellent granlular synthesis patch that has a number of bugs (bad loop indexing, glitchy envelopes etc.) but for a couple of tracks it was just the right tool.
cheers
mark
-----Original Message----- From: matthew nish-lapidus [mailto:mattn-l@rogers.com] Sent: 20 July 2002 22:18 To: PD List Subject: [PD] music
hi,
up until recently i have used reaktor for all my music/art but i'm not starting to feel limited by what it can do. i've been using pd for a long time for video/graphics installation work (with ben bogart), and have done a little audio work with it. i've been able to write some patches to do a lot of the things i can't do in reaktor, but i haven't been able to efficiently reproduce the simpler things that i use all the time, like a multi sample polyphonic sampler. i'd like to switch entirly to pd eventualy, but i need to figure out how to create these basic building blocks first.
so, my actual question is, does anybody have any tips for pathc building? or has anybody else started something like this? i basically want to create a library of abstractions for all the basic components that i need for composition.
anyway, if anybody has any tips i'd love some help.
m n-l.