[PD] [PD-announce] Real Time Composition Library (RTC-lib) for Pd

[Kyle Klipowicz]

Thanks Frank, you are my Pd-guru!

~Kyle

On 8/28/06, David Powers <cyborgk at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think this is quite exciting - and it's a really good thing for Pure
> Data, on the PR front, to be able to have somthing so useful. This is
> something one can immediately point composers too as some useful
> software that is free and will run on any operating system. A lot of
> people (myself included at the beginning) don't get into PD because
> it's unclear what you can actually DO off the bat with it (besides
> "anything")!
>
> ~David
>
> On 8/29/06, padawan12 <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:09:43 +0200
> > Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm just browsing it now, this is brilliant. I know I dissed some of it,
> > but I was wrong, most of this stuff is genuinely dead useful. Best of all
> > "Chance" and "Rhythm"(sic) seem packed with goodness for
> > algorithmic beat composition. Must try and make something
> > using all of this to test it. One observation - it seems so
> > inter-dependent isn't it better just to throw it all in one
> > directory and have a "libarary package helpfile" that indexes
> > them by groups like Chance, Lists, etc?
> > n1 all concerned.
> > a.
> >
> > > RTC-lib
> > > =======
> > >
> > > The Real Time Composition Library by Karlheinz Essl and others is a
> > > software library for algorithmic composition in Max/MSP/Jitter ... and
> > > now for Pure Data as well.
> > >
> > > The first prerelease of my RTC-lib Pd port is available here:
> > > http://footils.org/pkg/rtc-lib-pre0.2.tgz
> > >
> > > Some more info: http://footils.org/cms/show/56
> > >
> > > Quoting the original README:
> > >
> > >     This software library - a collection of patches and externals for
> > >     Max/MSP - offers the possibility to experiment with a number of
> > >     compositional techniques, such as serial procedures, permutations
> > >     and controlled randomness. Most of these objects are geared
> > >     towards straightforward processing of data. By using these
> > >     specialized objects together in a patch, programming becomes much
> > >     more clear and easy. Many functions that are often useful in
> > >     algorithmic composition are provided with this library - therefore
> > >     the composer could concentrate rather on the composition than the
> > >     programming aspects.
> > >
> > > The Pd version currently includes about 140 abstractions that almost
> > > all are documented with their respective help files.
> > >
> > > Some objects still are missing and also so far only I tested the
> > > ported objects, so your help is needed: Please test, and if you have
> > > Max/MSP: compare the behaviour! Also help is needed with the missing
> > > about one or two dozen objects.
> > >
> > > A lot of thanks goes to Karlheinz Essl who is very supportive of this
> > > project and was answering a lot of my questions regarding the port.
> > > Thanks of course also go to the other authors of the RTC-lib and on
> > > the Pd side especially to Krzysztof Czaja: without his Cyclone library
> > > this project would have been impossible to do for me.
> > >
> > > Ciao
> > > --
> > >  Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
> > >
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