[PD] PD Newbie 101

[Frank Barknecht]

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?

> 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
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 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__