Le Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Ben Sommer a écrit :

Hi, I've been messing with PD a few months, and am getting the hang of it finally. Seems to me that, like people say, it is a programming language - but a pretty primitive one, i.e. there aren't many pre-fab objects and nifty tools that I can just plug in and use. I gotta do most operations the long

Well that's right, I remember the old days (i am almost 29 ;) when there were not many softwares to run for our computers. It was natural then to program with the native BASIC. ... As far I am concerned I have started a polyphonic synthesizer project with different synthesis engine. There are layers and fx like in a top range hardware synthesizer but right now the project is waiting I resolve the problem I have with VNC (virtual network computer), i cannot get it to send the "tilde" charctere symbol from my NT machine keyboards to the linux box running PD ! :( On the other hand despite beeing not that much complexe, i cannot get more than 4/8 voices only with a 400mhz computer which is fairly low compared to what I can get from "Reality" (a software synth which allow more than 20 voices on an old PPro200mhz).

I've worked up a sampler that I know how to use (unlike the ones in the help files, which I can't figure out yet). I can loop it, use the metro to do some things, etc. BUT HOW do I insert some processing between the table-read and the final output. I try just running it through a bp~ or a vcf~ or whatever and nothing much happens. What is the LOGIC people use to process

What do you mean by nothing much happens ? Did you raise enough the resonnance ? Look at the console, may be you put a signal into a control inlet preventing your patch to work correctly ? BTW, in the /extra dir there is "rev1" , it is a reverb that you can use for any purpose. Just send your signal into it and adjust the delay time.

these signals and do stuff with 'em? I can figure out how to alter a synthesized sound, using the pre-made sythesizers, but I'm at a loss for doing something similar with an audio sample. If anyone would care to share an actual patch, that would be great. In fact, the wikiWeb thing at the pd site would be a nice place to put things for newbies like me to reference.

You are right again. I think that such a thing WILL happen. There is "abstrus" which is a package some released some times ago, it contains a phaser, a pitch shifter, a reverb, a fft filter. That should be findable, helas I don't know where exactly. I havn't yet tried the recent gtk gui objects but it should create motivation to release some nice stand-alone synths and audio-tools.

Someday I hope to share my stuff with others.

THANK YOU THANK YOU

-Ben Sommer

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