[PD] Thanks and now for something else!

[Daniel Wilcox]

I would suggest you check out Composing Interactive
Music<http://www.amazon.com/Composing-Interactive-Music-Techniques-Ideas/dp/0262731398>by
Todd Winkler which
covers using MAX to do lots of fun stuff with midi.  Naturally, you can
implement most of
the examples in PD.  I bought this book and went through the whole thing,
making the
example patches as I went.

If you want more of the technical bones behind this stuff, I'd also
recommend Machine
Musicianship<http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Musicianship-Robert-Rowe/dp/0262681498/ref=pd_sim_b_title_4/102-4863673-2463332>
by Karl Rowe.  Although it is getting a bit dated (includes a cdrom with MAX
patches for OS 9 :P),
it really helped me a good grasp on how I could use midi in pd to do what I
wanted.

Anyway, those are two books that got me going in pd.

Shoot, there is enough experience on this list to write better books then
these focusing on pd!

>Hallo,
>Timothy Sikes hat gesagt: // Timothy Sikes wrote:

> First of all, I want to thank everyone for the tremendous help you
> guys gave me to start PD a day or two ago.  I think parts of PD have
> finally started to sink in.  Whoever told me not to think of PD so
> procedurally, or orderly, really helped.  Right now,  I am getting
> the benefits of my labor by listening to a loop that goes from midi
> sound 50 -100 then loops again... and again.....  Alright,  now for
> the stuff I don't get!  So, my next project I would like to tackle
> to better understand PD is to have it play a simple midi C scale.

> Some of the things that I want to understand better is the 'select'
> object, and what happens when an outlet is connected to it, how to
> use the equality (>, <=) symbols accurately, and how they work in
> PD.  I have already looked at the examples that came with it,  and
> they just confused me:  When I took them out at started it over,  it
> seemed to work just fine.  This is the 'more counting' one,  and
> when I remove the >= 0 boxes, it still works, plus they're not
> really explained at all.Thanks again!


-- 
Dan Wilcox
danomatika
www.robotcowboy.com
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