[PD] PDDP meeting?

[derek holzer]

Hi HC, Adam,

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> I am not opposed to things like PDB or ways of searching for existing 
> objects.  But if you are going to learn the object, functional examples 
> work best.  But a manual would not be a good way to search for objects.

In general, I don't really agree that a manual with pictures of patches 
would be very useful. The functionality to learn and experiment by 
changing things really isn't there.

OTOH, one thing that people in my workshops are always asking for is a 
list of all the objects, including the externals. There isn't really one 
place to get all this, except online with the PDB, but that's not a good 
reference when you don't have any net access. I tried maintaining a text 
file with as many as I could, but it's very incomplete.

My suggestion would be to make a "dictionary" of objects, maybe sorted 
by name, library or general function (dataflow, 3d, audio, video, 
I/O...), such as the directories which were made by the user community 
for CSound. That might be useful as a PDF or hardcopy even. The PDcyclopia?

d.

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