I would suggest you check out <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Composing-Interactive-Music-Techniques-Ideas/dp/0262731398">Composing Interactive Music</a> by Todd Winkler which<br>covers using MAX to do lots of fun stuff with midi. Naturally, you can implement most of
<br>the examples in PD. I bought this book and went through the whole thing, making the <br>example patches as I went.<br><br>If you want more of the technical bones behind this stuff, I'd also recommend <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Musicianship-Robert-Rowe/dp/0262681498/ref=pd_sim_b_title_4/102-4863673-2463332">
Machine Musicianship</a><br>by Karl Rowe. Although it is getting a bit dated (includes a cdrom with MAX patches for OS 9 :P),<br>it really helped me a good grasp on how I could use midi in pd to do what I wanted.<br><br>
Anyway, those are two books that got me going in pd.<br><br>Shoot, there is enough experience on this list to write better books then these focusing on pd!<br><br>>Hallo,<br>>Timothy Sikes hat gesagt: // Timothy Sikes wrote:
<br><br>> First of all, I want to thank everyone for the tremendous help you<br>> guys gave me to start PD a day or two ago. I think parts of PD have<br>> finally started to sink in. Whoever told me not to think of PD so
<br>> procedurally, or orderly, really helped. Right now, I am getting<br>> the benefits of my labor by listening to a loop that goes from midi<br>> sound 50 -100 then loops again... and again..... Alright, now for
<br>> the stuff I don't get! So, my next project I would like to tackle<br>> to better understand PD is to have it play a simple midi C scale.<br><br>> Some of the things that I want to understand better is the 'select'
<br>> object, and what happens when an outlet is connected to it, how to<br>> use the equality (>, <=) symbols accurately, and how they work in<br>> PD. I have already looked at the examples that came with it, and
<br>> they just confused me: When I took them out at started it over, it<br>> seemed to work just fine. This is the 'more counting' one, and<br>> when I remove the >= 0 boxes, it still works, plus they're not
<br>> really explained at all.Thanks again!<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dan Wilcox<br>danomatika<br><a href="http://www.robotcowboy.com">www.robotcowboy.com</a>