[PD] Slow cpu/RJDJ patching approach ...
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at at.or.at
Tue May 26 20:38:45 CEST 2009
On May 26, 2009, at 2:13 PM, danomatika wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 13:05 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>>
>> And Dan, I also share your frustration with the common attitude on
>> this list of "it is what it is". That's why I am working on re-
>> writing the Pd GUI from scratch in pure Tcl with the aim of making it
>> use Tcl/Tk is a clean and sensible manner (aka Pd-devel 0.41.4). I
>> think you should join the project. Instead of venting via email,
>> vent
>> via code.
> Ok, where do I sign up? As I said before, if anyone knows of any
> places
> I can apply to in order to focus on it full time, I'm interested. I
> have known of your efforts
> for a while, but I haven't wanted to commit a small amount of time,
> I'd rather dive in head
> first. I don;t want to waste anyone's time telling them I can do
> this and that knowing full
> well I won't really end up doing anything.
svn co http://pure-data.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/pure-data/branches/pd-devel/0.41.4
cd 0.41.4
./authgen.sh
./configure
make && ./pd
Get it running, check out the code, pick a part and write code.
Introduce yourself to pd-dev to get SVN access, if you don't have it
already.
>> As for replacing Pd with SuperCollider or C/rtaudio, are you sure
>> that
>> those are any more efficient? Pd does have its problems, but audio
>> synthesis is pretty solid in Pd. For example, reactable still uses
>> Pd
>> as its synth engine.
>
> I totally agree, that's why I keep sticking with pd. I can't
> imagine being able to make anything
> nearly as efficient as the pd dsp engine. That being said, I wish
> it wasn't being pummled by
> the gui. I very much like this idea of a libpd with the engine
> totally separate.
Check out the next external scheduler support and pdvst and make this
happen.
.hc
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