[PD] Gigs with Pd

[Pierre Massat]

I like the biscuit box. The thing is that we need enough USB and/or firewire
ports for the device to be usable. I need at least two USB ports plus a
mouse to control my patches. that's why i can't use a smartphone, for
instance. Assuming that the device would be powerful enough, it'd be
pointless to use it if i can't plug in my soundcard and my controller.

@ Alexandre: I don't think there is anything very interesting to share in my
patch, as i stole most of it from the work of people here and there. I have
a simple synthesizer (using sigmund to get the pitch), a pitchshifter (thank
you, Miller Puckette!), an auto arpeggiator (using sigmund again, i capture
the different notes i want to have in the chord one by one, and they are
played back randomly by a set of tabread~), and a digital reverb (based on
freeverb).
So there is nothing very interesting at all, i m afraid.
Maybe this: i have recently found out that a frequency shifter could make a
surprisingly good phaser effect for a guitar. It's the closest i've come so
far to the old Univibe pedal that Hendrix used on songs like Machine Gun or
Hey Baby. It's quite different from the sound of an Electro Harmonix Small
Stone and its clones. It's very wet and shiny. Simply beautiful. It also
works very well on analog synth sounds (the univibe was originally created
to simulate a Leslie cabinet).
But then again, i also stole the frequency shifter from the DIY2 package
(was it made by Hardoff?).
So i'm not doing anything really amazing for the viewpoint of a resonably
proficient Pd user. The point of this post was just to say (if needed) that
Pd "sounds good" and that it is definitely stable enough to use it live
during an entire gig (provided that your patches are written well
enough...).

I quite obviously use the hid object to command my patch with my home-made
foot controller.


Pierre
2010/5/3 Andrew Faraday <jbturgid at hotmail.com>

>  that sounds like an amazing piece of kit
>
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> From: pedro.lopes at ist.utl.pt
>
> Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 17:21:15 +0100
> To: pimassat at gmail.com
> CC: pd-list at iem.at
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> Subject: Re: [PD] Gigs with Pd
>
> >I m just hoping that sometime soon we'll have a piece of hardware >that's
> small and powerful enough to run Pd in realtime and I'll have >the perfect
> gear (perfect for me).
>
>
> http://www.bluemelon.org/index.php/Products/BM7505_BluePD_programmable_Pure_Data_router
>
> Never tried it though... seems interesting.
>
>
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Pierre Massat <pimassat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> There was a discussion not too long ago about suitability of Pd in a live
> context (off the "smoother audio" thread i think). I just wanted to say that
> i use Pd everytime i play a gig with my band as a super multi effects. I
> have never experienced any crash in Pd, and the sound is just excellent, and
> everybody keeps asking me what the hell are these pedals and this software
> and how the eff do i make all these sounds, and well, i just think this is
> the future. I m just hoping that sometime soon we'll have a piece of
> hardware that's small and powerful enough to run Pd in realtime and I'll
> have the perfect gear (perfect for me).
> Just wanted to share this.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Pierre
>
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