I'd recomend the help files on samplers. If you go to the help browser, 3.audio.examples then b07 onwards. These give you quite a simple way in to using existing audio on PD

Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:06:34 +0100 From: derek@umatic.nl To: hardbop200@gmail.com CC: PD-list@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] triggering audio

Hi Josh,

looks like you haven't gotten to the later AUDIO TUTORIALS chapters:

# ENVELOPE GENERATOR # AMPLIFIER # CONTROLLING THE SYNTH # STEP SEQUENCER # 4 STAGE SEQUENCER

where you learn about changing the sound of the synth (amplitude, frequency or filter) over time using envelopes, as well as how to control/trigger the synth from various input sources.

Good luck!!!! Derek

Josh Lawrence wrote:

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Hi everyone,

I'm working through the FLOSS manual on pd attempting to learn it. I've learned how to make a simple synth using osc~ and phasor~ objects, and I trigger them using a slider patched into an mtof object. Lots of fun, but the long tone of an oscillator is getting boring. I've scanned through other chapters, and I can't seem to find other ways of triggering audio.

For example, I've been watching this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zKzxqN5mUI

Whoever this is uses a sig~ object going through an expr~, etc. I don't understand what he's doing, but it looks cool. Can someone help me understand it? What are some other things I can play with?

Be gentle, I'm new to all of this. :)

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Hey, that's how you learn, and you learn better if you chase parts of PD that interest you more. The first few parts of the help files talk about data structures etc... which confuse the hell out of me, don't use 'em, don't plan to. I'd say if something interests you, go for it, if you don't understand it take a step back. Whatever you do, don't spend too long listening to a pure sine tone.

Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:02:06 -0600 From: hardbop200@gmail.com To: derek@umatic.nl CC: PD-list@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] triggering audio

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Derek Holzer derek@umatic.nl wrote:

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Hi Josh,

looks like you haven't gotten to the later AUDIO TUTORIALS chapters:

ha, you caught me! :) you're right, I'm trying to skip ahead. I'm a very poor student for this reason!

thanks all for the useful replies - pd is a vast (and somewhat confusing) world, and I need all the help I can get.

-- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com

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Maybe try the attached patch and look up the help for the objects in it to see what they can do.

Martin

Josh Lawrence wrote:

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Derek Holzer derek@umatic.nl wrote:

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Hi Josh,

looks like you haven't gotten to the later AUDIO TUTORIALS chapters:

if I can beg the forgiveness of the list and make another post:

I've been reading over the answers presented to me and realize that I completely failed at asking my question. let me give it another try, this time I'll tell you what I want to do in terms that make more sense to me:

first, I do not want to load samples or sound files of any kind (yet). this is where I messed up when I said "triggering audio."

let's say I have an osc~ object, and I want to turn it on and off in a rhythmic fashion, say every quarter note, as if I were playing quarter notes on my midi keyboard. what objects/methods do I need to learn about to do that? I'm guess I need to look in the control section, but all of the examples don't actually play anything, they are just examples. I really need to see *how* to use them (I have trouble "connecting the dots" as it were).

I have many more questions, but I'll stop there and digest whatever comes at me.

thank you again, and sorry for messing up the first time!

Hi,

let's say I have an osc~ object, and I want to turn it on and off in a rhythmic fashion, say every quarter note, as if I were playing quarter notes on my midi keyboard. what objects/methods do I need to learn about to do that? *

[line~] and/or [vline~] connected to a simple [*~] are your friends... I'm sure a look at their help patches will get you going.

Bests, Lorenzo.