[PD] Showcasing PD

Andy Farnell padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk
Wed Dec 1 22:31:26 CET 2010




What works really well with absolute beginners
is the ring mod applied between [adc~] and [dac~],
so everyone ends up shouting "I am a robot! Exterminate!"
into their mic. Guaranteed geekfest.



On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:26:51 -0500
Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at> wrote:

> 
> I'm a big fan of starting from very little and building a ring  
> modulator, step-by-step, as I did in this talk:
> 
> http://vimeo.com/5479982
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Dec 1, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Andrew Faraday wrote:
> 
> > Wii data really doesn't work for me. Although perhaps with a few  
> > led's it'd rekindle my interest.
> >
> > Incidentally, either I don't have a fast enough machine for VJing or  
> > I've not found the right library/objects. What's the way forward on  
> > that?
> >
> > From: geokeratz at gmail.com
> > Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 22:47:01 +0200
> > Subject: Re: [PD] Showcasing PD
> > To: pat at digitalworlds.ufl.edu
> > CC: jbturgid at hotmail.com; pd-list at iem.at
> >
> > Yeap,
> > and talk NERDY ;)
> >
> > On 1 December 2010 22:33, Pagano, Patrick  
> > <pat at digitalworlds.ufl.edu> wrote:
> > Do a VJ thing.
> > control it with a wii
> > Video theremins go over well too
> >
> > pp
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: pd-list-bounces at iem.at [pd-list-bounces at iem.at] On Behalf Of  
> > Andrew Faraday [jbturgid at hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 3:24 PM
> > To: pd-list at iem.at
> > Subject: [PD] Showcasing PD
> >
> > Hey Guys
> >
> > Here's the situation, I've been invited to talk to a group of  
> > techies on PD for half an hour this friday (the 3rd), there's  
> > basically two options. Either I do a basic introduction to Pd, it's  
> > benefits and why I like it as a medium/language. Or the one I'm  
> > leaning towards now, A quickly thrown together example of something  
> > you can do in PD.
> >
> > I'm currently thinking that I could easily put together a plan to  
> > code a simple instrument from a USB controller within half an hour.  
> > Thus showing that a lot can be achieved in a relatively short space  
> > of time with some Pd knowledge.
> >
> > Has anyone got any ideas how I might try to impress people with the  
> > capabilities of PD?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Andrew
> >
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Andy Farnell <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk>



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