I'm just spent several weeks teaching PD and ran into many questions that I could not answer at all.
- in what cases is a table drawable? I thought previously
that it depended on the resolution of the array, but apparently not. I can sometimes draw in a table that contains 65000, but sometimes not. Can someone explain?
- in the arrays examples, there are some messages that can
be sent, such as sinesum and cosinesum, to fill a table. Are there any others? I could not find any. If there aren't any others why is that, is that from lack of need or because of a particular difficulty in implementing such things? I'm thinking in particular that something like the gen routines in Csound would be invaluable.
- I have never used the text editor in PD, and a student
asked me what it was for. Looking at it, I realised that I don't have a clue either. It certainly does not do what I thought it would. Anyone care to explain what can be done with it?
Thanks!
- martin