[PD-dev] arbitrary atom types (was Re: sms pd external - design choices)

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Mon Jul 21 16:58:30 CEST 2008


On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

>> Perhaps you don't, but I do print my A_LIST atoms right now using 
>> an object called [print], in Miller's Pd
> so how do you fookin' do it?

Well, I hinted at it in a kind of erratum because I wanted to say that I 
didn't patch pd. I forced [print] to be an alias of [gf.print], but first 
I wrote [gf.print], which is a C++-based clone of [print]... though I 
already had something similar because I had made [display].

> i think this is a good decision; if you do want to talk about Pd then 
> you should go to Pd~con

It's not like there's a Pd~con often enough. To me, Piksel 2005-2006 was 
an occasion to meet a good number of Pd people.

> or ICMC or another computer-music oriented meeting.

Well, if I can find the same Pd people in both music-oriented and 
audio-oriented confs, there's not much difference.

> LAC used to be a lot about soundcard drivers and new tools/applications, 
> none of which is a category Pd really falls into; i had the impression 
> that a lot of old-school LACers where a bit overwhelmed (and probably 
> frustrated) by the LAC2008 because of the focus on Pd

So, why does it switch around from ... to SC3 to Pd to ...? and I suppose 
that at the same time it's not an official theme? Another conf trying to 
compensate for the lack of an annual Pd Convention?

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