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]

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