[PD] PD 4 EM

[J. Scott Hildebrand]

     i think it's important that people get involved regardless of how
many clueless newbies get on board. if there were never newbies, then
there would be no advanced users, and more importantly there would be no
resources. this is kind of a similar thing as to when people complain
about their favorite small unknown band making it big. if they make it
big, it means that they'll more likely continue to make music that you can
get access to. if they don't make it, then it's likely you'll never hear
another record from then again... and if pd doesn't "make it," it'll never
improve and it'll become old dusty software that very few people use.

                                               scott





On 21 Feb 2003, jfm3 wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> I'm the owner of pure-data.org. If you mention the pure-data.org web
> site in your article, please make note of the fact that Miller doesn't
> have anything to do with it; that it is a completely independent web
> site. Also, you might mention that the mailing list is really a better
> way to be in touch with the PD user community, and the
> pure-data.sourceforge.net CVS repository is the best way to stay up to
> date with 3rd party externals. That as opposed to the pure-data.org
> "downloads" section, which is frequently out of date.
>
> A lot of users see pure-data.org and have some kind of problem with it,
> and then they go yell at miller or some other developer, and it's all
> due to this misguided notion that somehow pure-data.org is the
> developers promoting their own work, while in actuality it is just
> another user community resource. Pure-data.org could use a lot of work,
> as well, and my inability to devote serious time to it should not be
> interpreted as laziness on the part of the real pd developers.
>
> I use Pd and a laptop running linux for performances. I also could
> probably write a simple C compiler and UNIX kernel from scratch, given
> enough time. If you're not comfortable with CVS, C/C++ compilers,
> bleeding edge device drivers, serious system performance tuning,
> advanced DSP theory, and a bunch of other technical gunk, Pd is not for
> you. Perhaps, start with Reaktor or some other commercial product for
> which you can get professional support when you run into problems.
>
> If you do have the computer chops to run Pd, it will never ever
> disappoint you, and you will find its user community *just right*.
>
> The only other piece of software people seem to use other than Pd is a
> sequencer, just because Pd's graphics for sequencers are clunky and slow
> to mouse around with.
>
> I have mixed feelings about an EM article on PD. On the one hand, the
> more people who use it successfully, the better. On the other hand, I
> don't like the idea of the mailing list clogging up with people who can
> barely run cakewalk complaining that their free software doesn't work.
> Food for thought for you, perhaps.
>
> On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:20, Jim Aikin wrote:
> > I've been assigned to write a feature on Pd for an upcoming issue of
> > Electronic Musician. [...]
>
> --
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>
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