Hi All -
I've been using Max/MSP for many years (probably know some of you from that list) but am just looking into PD. I've got the most recent (October '03) pd-extended, including the cyclone (which is a great idea for us platform vagrants).
I hope someone who has been down this road before might be able to answer some Max/MSP-centric questions about PD.... I imagine most if not all have been covered before, but searches of the list archives aren't getting me quick answers to what are probably quickly answerable questions, so please bear with me ;)
a) Between the cyclone and native PD, I can handle most of the needs of my patches, but I am wondering if there are objects that behave similarly to the following Max/MSP objs:
- poly~ (and its friends/helpers)
- filein
- serial
- vexpr
b) Also, I take it that there is no concept of "overdrive" in PD, and hence no need for objects like "defer". Is this correct?
c) aside from the contents of the extras folder, are there other objects included with pd-extended, and if so where do I find them (and non-help-patch documentation on them, if available)?
d) have the McCartney ListOps been ported to PD? If so, where do I get them? How about atoi/itoa?
e) any other "gotchas" (aside from time-of-instantiation vs right-to-left for message order disambiguation) that a Maxer coming to PD might encounter?
The documentation has thus far been quite helpful, but hoping for a bit of a leg up.
Thanks, and sorry for wasted bandwidth...
Jer