Is Adam Hyde on the list? I think its great for anyone to join,
seriously, the more the merrier. Already, the intro that I have been
assembling is drawing on the work of 10 or so people.
We discussed the idea of a manual a fair amount in the PDDP
meetings. I think most/all of us agreed that we want to try to make
a Pd manual that is completely made up of Pd patches. The point is
to highlight learning thru example for every single step. Having a
separate manual seems to highlight the book learning style more.
Yes, this will mean a lot of patches. I already have 60-ish for the
intro.
But I also just made a pager object which allows you to easily
navigate the pages like a manual. Its included in the most recent
test releases:
http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html
Go to Help->Browser... then manuals/intro and load 0-pager.pd I
tested it on Windows and Mac OS X.
.hc
On Apr 19, 2006, at 5:07 PM, derek holzer wrote:
Hey HC and the gang,
Adam Hyde has been working on a PDF/HTML manual for getting PD up
and running. I've talked with him a bit about how beneficial such a
thing is versus a set of patches like the ones which have been
contributed here. But you might want to have a look at it:http://www.flossmanuals.net/edit
I may be meeting with him soon about where it could go, and I'm
sure he's open for other suggestions as well.Mark Polishook wrote:
Two comments: 1. the patches are very good at identifying core
concepts and explaining them. 2. But the hard thing about tutorial
writing is it's difficult to show how those small concepts relate
to larger artistic concerns.I agree on both fronts. The main issue with PD is that people use
it for so many different things that demonstrating "artistic
concerns" would be pretty limited to what the author happens to be
doing with PD. All the same, I do find that there is a serious lack
of "demo" patches, or something like a "user library" that noobs
could have a look at for inspiration. Simple and not so simple but
usable tools, along the same lines as the User Library in Reaktor,
or maybe even the Pluggo patches from Cycling74 (except you can't
open those up, can you???). I tried to make something like that
with ParticleChamber, and I know that other stuff has come up on
the list when people ask about synth collections and the like.
Might be good to try to collect these kinds of abstractions
together into a library of sorts (a la RRRAD).best, derek
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