Hi, Alex from idoia hat gesagt: // Alex from idoia wrote:

I am getting step by step into PD and have a couple of newbie questions before getting started: I have read the Miller' s doc but could not find any 'reference' doc in which all available objects are explained.

Most of the objects are explained in reference patches in the doc-directory of the Pd distribution. You can access them either by doing a "Help->Pure Documentation" in the menu or right-click (Ctl-Click on the Mac?) on any object and selecting "Help".

There also is a pd documentation project with alternative reference patches, "pddp". I don't have the URL at hand, but pure-data.org should know it.

Right-clicking on the main canvas and selecting "Help" gives you a list of all builtin objects.

Maybe there is none ? also, as I come from Max I wonder to know if all object in Max work in PD.

No, they don't work all. There are several compatibility projects going on, for example the cyclone library of externals. The general approach would be to save your Max patches in text form (.pat), open them in Pd and find and replace all objects with their Pd equivalents, like cycle~ -> osc~ and so on.

At last, I would like to realise a very simple patch that record audio from my sound card into a aiff format (I am on Mac) but using a midi click set by the user to start and stop the recording( like any basic sequencer program), the way I can do some overdubbing on top later on. Is there already some patches that could give me an idea of how to start ?

Attached is a simple gui-abstraction for recording into a file, that I use a lot. Just put an object [sfrecorder] into a patch, but it won't work for overdubs, I don't know how this could be done. Also it doesn't have a midi-start, but this could be added easily with the notein or midiin objects.

I hope this helps you to a good start. Welcome at Pd.

ciao

Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__