Hallo, Matthew Williams hat gesagt: // Matthew Williams wrote:
But it's sorta lame to just use a plugin built by someone else, although it does sound tight .. i won't use it besides it's not for os x anyway. So thats my main goal for the moment. Since you teach pd, and have seen lots of different types of people use pd... what is the learning curve for someone of average intelligence. Is it the kind of thing where like one day it'll click and i'll be able to do any sort of thing i can think of.
It's very similar to learning an old fashioned real instrument like the piano or saxophone: It won't make click one day, but if you listen to stuff you recorded while rehearsing two months ago, the difference will be huge. The same can happen, if you look at your patches from weeks or even years ago. You will think: "Man, today I would do this much cleaner, faster and simpler. However I still had great fun back then."
Because at the moment i have to go over tutorials 3 times before i really grasp what tha hell is actually going on. Even then i don't feel like i could create anything from what i've learned... but then again i'm only 1/2 through the control samples so it's a little to soon to tell if i really can "get it".
I'd say that's perfectly normal. And it's good that you really go through the control examples. It's tempting to skip them, because doing audio may be so much cooler, but the control stuff is very important. It's also good to re-read the html-manual several times. It's very concise and it's easy to miss stuff if only reading it once.
The two most important things to learn IMO are [trigger] and the flow of execution in a Pd patch and later the role abstractions and their arguments play. This will make it much easier to understand and read patches by other people.
Reading a good introduction to sound synthesis is very helpful, too. Of course Miller's book comes to mind, however for a more "friendly" introduction try to get a copy of Dodge/Jerse: "Computer Music".
Ciao
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