[PD] PD Newbie 101

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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.
>>
>> 1) 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

>> 2) 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.
>
>> 3) 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.
>
>> 4) 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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