Pure Data
February 9, 2006
This is a link to my first PD file. (My Pd) [to download, right click and save target as] Push the green button and then try to shut it down, it gets annoying real fast. Be sure to take a look at the other class members work. (Class work). I took Josh Tatems work and expanded on it in this pd file called play1update. Be sure to do the right click, save target as to get the file. I just wish I knew all the command to make it do some great things.
February 12, 2006 at 11:48 pm
Hey Steve,
Lol. I just wanted to be the first one to post a comment. Now I’m satisfied. Bye.
February 15, 2006 at 5:18 am
what would you like Pd to do?
February 16, 2006 at 5:38 am
Just got your response. As a matter of fact we *do* offer a semester course on Pd…but it has (at least so far) been emphasizing the sound aspects only. The course is called Introduction to Sound Synthesis and is offered in the fall. Also, video and image manipulation is totally possible in Pd with external libraries. Gem manipulates basic objects like spheres and cubes. You can play with lighting, texture video onto the objects, combine objects, etc. Your installation of Pd already includes Gem, and I intend to support it for the class projects. On Windows, there’s also Framestein, which has a bunch of filters and various manipulations for video and will even let you map your Adobe Photoshop effects to video. On Linux/Mac there is pdp and pidip which is similar in capabilities to Framestein. On Monday eve we are doing a 7 minute work which includes live manipulation of 4 web cams mapped through video effects using pdp and pidip. If you come, you’ll get some idea of the types of manipulations possible. It’s at 7. There will be other opportunities if this doesn’t work for you.
In terms of the A 440 stuff…there is some help in using objects like mtof and ftom (midi to freq and freq to midi) but a lot of it is just experience and exploring the help patches. I don’t know if I have any short cuts for you.