After having most of last year off I am getting back into PD again.

I built the "ann" external for windows and after reading some papers on the web ( http://www.cis.hut.fi/~tho/thesis/) I have an idea what it does and I built the patch attached (if you haven't got kontact then just send the midi stream to something else). Applying a self organising map to a random stream should produce an ever changing stream of... well...something - and it does and its supprisingly musical. I have a "toungue drum" patch (short decay,low pitch) and a flute patch (long decay, high pitch) loaded at the same time and its very nice just to listen to.

On a realted note does anyone know anything about the hartman Neuron synth:

http://www.hartmann-music.com/home/

and what kind of techniques it uses?

cheers

mark