Hi Bryan,
No need to apologize. I wasn't trying to suggest that there was
anything wrong with Ratts. I think Ratts is really cool and I used it
in a recent online project called "On Everything" (http://
pallit.lhi.is/on_everything). But when I started looking at voice
synthesis through PD, I wasn't looking for anything complex with lots
of capabilities. I just wanted a really synthy sounding voice inside
PD. It took me a while to glean from the help files, the bare
essentials to getting PD+ratts to "say" something and when I did, it
turned out to be a lot simpler than I felt that the sample and help
files made it look at first. So, perhaps it would be good to have one
patch with the help files that is just the bare minimum. Some of us
like to get that so we can then dive right in and start experimenting
with it ourselves.
But again, ratts is great and I expect to use it in some future
projects as well.
Pall
On 2-Jun-07, at 6:40 PM, Bryan Jurish wrote:
moin Pall, moin list,
Many apologies that the ratts help files seem to be less than entirely intuitive to first-time users; in my defense, I can only say: "sheesh, man, if you folks think the ratts pd API is poorly documented, y'all should see the rsynth code"...
ok, now that I've gotten that out of my system (no flame intended, honestly): do you have an immediate suggestion as to how I could
improve things? I realize that a ratts chain has more user-settable
parameters than you can shake a proverbial stick at, but the defaults should be sensible (if you want something that sounds vaguely like human
speech), and playing with those strange animals is half the fun ;-) I included the 'ratts~' abstraction so that users could get an idea how all those separate objects work together and/or just "make pd talk"; and I
rather hoped that the 'ratts-help.pd' help patch would suffice for an
overview of the objects in it... oh well...marmosets, Bryan
On 2007-06-02 15:49:43, Pall Thayer palli@pallit.lhi.is appears to have written:
Hi list,
I've toyed around with Ratts quite a bit and when you do have the
help files it makes everything seem more complicated than it really is.
So, here's a little patch that contains the bare essentials that you
need to do start experimenting with Ratts:ratsass.pd:
[snip]
-- Bryan Jurish "There is *always* one more
bug." jurish@ling.uni-potsdam.de -Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic
Entomology
-- Pall Thayer palli@pallit.lhi.is http://www.this.is/pallit