[PD] Call for GSoC mentors! March 9th deadline!

[Hans Roels]

In fact I'm working on a very similar project (called 'abunch') since 
a year, I hope to release it in one of the following weeks. 
Everything is in pd vanilla. I tried to make it as user friendly as 
possible, I've been testing and using it a lot in my lessons. It 
contains a lot of the units that you mentioned...

Hans R

At 16:53 12/03/2009, Kyle Klipowicz wrote:
>How about this project:
>
>Beginners Building Blocks.
>
>Right now, If I want to even make a simple sine oscillator synth 
>with an ADSR envelope on it, it's not very easy to do out of the 
>box. What if there were some entry-level abstractions in a very 
>OBVIOUS location that people could instantly piece together some 
>classic Unit Generators. Important for these would be the ability to 
>copy/paste items from a main page of abstractions. Also, they should 
>have a simple GUI interface, and possibly be set up automatically to use SSAD.
>
>I'm thinking stuff like:
>
>-basic envelope generators
>-basic oscillators (bandlimited ones would be nice): sine, square, 
>triangle, sawtooth
>-basic i/o that is more intuitive to newbies
>-basic sample players (one shot, looping, pitch shifting, 
>multi-sample a la fluidsynth)
>-basic MIDI controller mapping tools (so people could just twist a 
>knob to assign a parameter)
>-basic step, piano roll, &c sequencers
>-basic pitch/rhythm analysis (wrappers for sigmund~, fiddle~, and bonk~)
>-basic modular counters
>-an extensive collection of examples using these objects, 
>documenting parameters, as well as ways to connect and/or modify and 
>save new versions of objects using SSAD
>-video stuff would also be great, something akin to a freshened up PixelTango.
>
>Anyway, I just thought these things would be really nice to have in 
>an accessible place in Pd-extended. Because right now whenever I 
>just want to make something very simple, i end up having to click a 
>mouse about 200 times which is annoying and makes me worried about RTS!
>
>Pd and Pd-extended are so difficult to navigate for newbies. There 
>need to be more "pick up and go" audio tools. I'm thinking of how 
>Reaktor and Max/MSP are so easy to dive into. Pd is a lot like a 
>cold cold ocean whereas the other two are nice warm swimming pools. 
>Pd is deeper and more exciting by far, but you can get swept away in 
>an undertow never to return!
>
>This project could be accomplished by merging elements from NetPd, 
>Pdmtl, and various slick patches made by the resident list geniuses. 
>(Another thing about NetPd if Roman and Eni are listening: can you 
>make a tar.gz or zip download of ALL current NetPd patches? I hate 
>having to download 30+ items one at a time. RTS fears again!)
>
>So there's my way more than 2 cents. Take what you will from it.
>
>~Kyle
>
>
>On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner 
><<mailto:hans at eds.org>hans at eds.org> wrote:
>On Mar 7, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 11:26 +0100, Enrique Erne wrote:
> >> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> >>> The Google Summer of Code 
> ((<http://code.google.com/soc/>http://code.google.com/soc/) application
> >>> is due very soon, March 9th, and we need mentors!  At this point,
> >>> you
> >>> just need to put down your name.  Then once the projects are in,
> >>> we'll
> >>> choose projects and who will mentor them.
> >>
> >>> Every pd developer who wants to support the project but is not
> >>> student
> >>> anymore is invited to join as mentor, since the number of sponsored
> >>> projects by google depends on the number of mentors and students.
> >>
> >> Andy, Claude, Frank, Marius, Mathieu, Roman where are you guys?
> >>
> >> add your names, hurry! :)
> >
> > yo, i am happy to add my name, but i guess it only makes sense for
> > me to
> > take a mentorship of a project, that is about patching and not c
> > coding.
> > from what i have seen, there is only one project - undead - which
> > seems
> > to be about patching. derek holzer is already proposed as a mentor.
> > does
> > it make sense to propose more then one mentor for a project?
>You could also create a new project based on something like creating
>libraries out of all that useful code in netpd.  Basically, think of
>something that you would like implemented in Pd that you could mentor.
>.hc
>
> >
> >
> > roman
> >
> >
> >
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