Check out Joe Sarlo's GrIPD -- it's a sort of interface builder you can put in front of Pd.
cheers Miller
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 11:21:40PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Larry Troxler hat gesagt: // Larry Troxler wrote:
I'm kind of bewildered about this as well - to me, PD is just a tool to *create* something beautifull, namely music. It doesn't need to be artistic in itself.
And because using PD takes some serious left-brain thinking, I'm a bit surprised that many users care about it's graphical appearance. But obviously they do.
I suppose the analogy here would be that some musicians prefer their instruments to look nice, hence nice looking grand pianos, snazzy looking guitars, and the like.
In general I fully agree with your view, because that's pretty much the way how I use Pd.
But I see an area where looks are important, and that is in building interfaces for (live) performances. Here things have to be intuitive and very easy and fast to use. To achieve this is quite a bit more difficult in Pd than it should be.
ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
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