Hi folks,
just about to dload & install PD.
I've had some experience with Max, & after recently beginning to explore csound, a subsequent desire to (at least think about..) going all open source, a desire to make some GUI stuff for csound, & to check out some PMPD examples (boing!), i'm taking (another) deep breath, & biting the bullet. so PD here we go...
So here's my initial questions/ want list.
- how's the "out the box GUI" situation compared to max? the objects
that get a real hammering from me (in Max) are Multislider & function (or better yet, the ej-ies JSUI function object) - is there a similar pair of "workhorses" ready to roll in PD?
- is pfft~ & all related fft functionality available & built/ patched/
managed in the same way?
is there an Lobjects or equivalent for pd?
what's the best source of documentation for PD? (given i have some
experience with Max, & spend much more time with the Reference manual than the tutorials at this stage.)
- for the (perhaps many of you) like me who have made the switch, what
pitfalls, windfalls, general timesaving advice would u give?
Thanks folks! looking forward to us driving each other crazy! ; )
merry xmas
Tim
(my New Years resolution? an all linux audio PC by the end of 2007....if i can afford a new box to run it on by then that is..)
Hallo, Tim Mortimer hat gesagt: // Tim Mortimer wrote:
I've had some experience with Max, & after recently beginning to explore csound, a subsequent desire to (at least think about..) going all open source, a desire to make some GUI stuff for csound, & to check out some PMPD examples (boing!), i'm taking (another) deep breath, & biting the bullet. so PD here we go...
So here's my initial questions/ want list.
- how's the "out the box GUI" situation compared to max? the objects
that get a real hammering from me (in Max) are Multislider & function (or better yet, the ej-ies JSUI function object) - is there a similar pair of "workhorses" ready to roll in PD?
There is no multislider for Pd, but for some uses you can just take an array instead. I don't know function, could you explain what it does?
- is pfft~ & all related fft functionality available & built/ patched/
managed in the same way?
The use of FFT in Pd is slightly different from Max, but the functionality is there. Just read the FFT-examples in the docs.
- is there an Lobjects or equivalent for pd?
[list] is your friend here. A lot of the Lobjects are somehow cloned in the [list]-abs collection of abstractions that's available on the CVS or as part of pd-extended. Just do a "-lib list-abs" there.
- what's the best source of documentation for PD? (given i have some
experience with Max, & spend much more time with the Reference manual than the tutorials at this stage.)
The best source are the files in "doc/*/*.pd", also you should read the HTML manual. It would be nice to have a kind of "Pd for Max converts" tutorial. Maybe you can take some notes of your experiences and put them on puredata.info? That would be so cool.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
On Dec 23, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, Tim Mortimer hat gesagt: // Tim Mortimer wrote:
I've had some experience with Max, & after recently beginning to
explore csound, a subsequent desire to (at least think about..) going all
open source, a desire to make some GUI stuff for csound, & to check out
some PMPD examples (boing!), i'm taking (another) deep breath, & biting
the bullet. so PD here we go...So here's my initial questions/ want list.
- how's the "out the box GUI" situation compared to max? the objects
that get a real hammering from me (in Max) are Multislider &
function (or better yet, the ej-ies JSUI function object) - is there a similar pair of "workhorses" ready to roll in PD?There is no multislider for Pd, but for some uses you can just take an array instead. I don't know function, could you explain what it does?
envgen from ggee is like function. timeroll from mapping does some
stuff like multislider. Pd has more low level building blocks that
you can build what you need. Graph-on-parent makes it easy to build
a graphical object.
.hc
- is pfft~ & all related fft functionality available & built/
patched/ managed in the same way?
The use of FFT in Pd is slightly different from Max, but the functionality is there. Just read the FFT-examples in the docs.
- is there an Lobjects or equivalent for pd?
[list] is your friend here. A lot of the Lobjects are somehow cloned in the [list]-abs collection of abstractions that's available on the CVS or as part of pd-extended. Just do a "-lib list-abs" there.
- what's the best source of documentation for PD? (given i have some
experience with Max, & spend much more time with the Reference manual than the tutorials at this stage.)
The best source are the files in "doc/*/*.pd", also you should read the HTML manual. It would be nice to have a kind of "Pd for Max converts" tutorial. Maybe you can take some notes of your experiences and put them on puredata.info? That would be so cool.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
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