On 10/03/2009, at 23.27, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
(snip) Many newbies are hung up because they can't get the example
patches to do anything. A lot of the time, that's because they
haven't turned up the audio.
So to be precis and to check if i understand you correct: It's the
word "dB" that is confusing? - While maybe the word "Vol" or "Volume"
might clear it.
If it is encapsulated in an object, then the complexity is hidden
until you want to see it. Same idea with a osc~. The osc~ C code
is far more complex.
I don't think that's a fair analogy.
I think it's quite clear, and i think most folk will have something
like the same feeling, that what is "beneath" osc~ and other things
you can type into a object-box such that an object is instantiated is
by the syntax in a class of "hidden until I want to see it".
Abstractions generate another class and so does subpatches. The to
later are maybe in the same class to some. Then comes GOBified
abstractions. Then GOBified abstactions that use [cvn] tricks to make
a "funky" interface. The syntax of the last is way different from the
first and different from the rest too in the way that the syntax is a
"graphical design matter". GOP asb inherent syntax from the Pd it
passes though, some i don't think that is conceptually that hard.
Is this all blahblabbarbar? I agree it's getting hairy.