[PD] Are there alternative means of creating patches besides the graphical editor?

[Lorenzo Sutton]

HI,

Morgan Packard wrote:
> Hello there.
> I'm interested in using PD. However, as someone who spends a lot of 
> time with code, I'm actually a little afraid of the learning curve 
> involved with the graphical programming language! I'd be much more 
> comfortable creating my patches using, for example, a Python tool. 
> Does such a programmatic PD patch generation tool exist? I can't 
> imagine I'm the first person who's wanted such a thing.
People will probably point you to csound or supercollider for your first 
statement... Anyway the curve is not really so steep, dataflow is of 
course a slightly different mindset, although if you are skilled at 
coding that will nevertheless prove benefical.

Regarding python, you might have a look at py/pyext [1]. I couldn't 
successfully have it setup in Ubuntu, because it is strongly tied to a 
particular python version. Something more 'flexible' IMHO would be nice, 
ideally running directly within pd would be really nice, even at the 
level of non-dsp abstractions to begin with (similarly to javscript in 
MAX)... But this doesn't seem to be of much interest currently.

Lorenzo

[1] http://puredata.info/Members/thomas/py/
> thanks,
> -Morgan
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