Wade,

Are you talking about the University of Colorado? At Denver?

I am graduating from the music tech program over there this Spring and was introduced to PD by a friend from Australia while I was in Sweden last summer.

I know a guy named Wade in the UCD program but I can't be certain it's you. Seems too strange to be true but who knows.

To All:

Other than a composer friend I met in Sweden and another friend at Cal Arts, I have never met anyone else in person who uses PD. Most I talk to have heard of Max and some have used it but when I mention Pure Data I get a bunch of blank stares.

I have become a PD junkie in less than 6 months. Thanks to everyone who has worked with the development of PD and all its wonderful externals!

-Phil

I have never met another PD user in person.

I started using PD in part becasue I was fooling around with putting linux on an old laptop and was downloading whatever sound program I could find. Later I took a class that had a MAX/MSP element to it up at CU. I liked the idea of messing around with realtime sound, as I had only been exposed to Csound through the school up until then. I didnt want a Mac ( :P ) and so...

I have a bunch of tracks almost ready for a CD (I want a few more, and to save up $2500 of course, before I print the disk) that is ALL PD STUFF. I lovith PD, and thank you all for working on it and using it and making it better.

I tried to teach my X-girlfriend how to use PD, but like me if she struggles at the beginning then it becomes more and more difficult for her to progress. She could play almost every instrument in the orchestra, but there was something about visualizing the flow of numbers and of waveforms that threw her off. I have the same kind of frustration when I try to play a real instrument. :D

Girls got kind of hazed out of the audio tech classes at CU by the other students. There are always some students that get it automatically, and others that need serious help, and the teachers tend to favor the head of the class. Its a widespread flaw of many CU departments: not enough classes and too many students per teacher.

-thewade

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