Re: [microsound] Getting started

[Frank Barknecht <fbar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hallo,
isjtar hat gesagt: // isjtar wrote:

> ok, to shield me from flames, i only know reaktor up to version 4
> and  documentation there really sucked.  i know the PD docs are
> always in progress, but i'm still not  impressed by what you can do
> with it.  compare a max helpfile to a pd helpfile from a programming
> language  illiterate point of view and you catch my drift.  feel
> free to prove me wrong btw, i'd love to recommend people good pd
> docs.

Cycling of course pays people to write good documentation. Writing
documentation for Pd is done by volunteers (like myself) and most of
the documentation or tuorial patches I write take time off my own
work, so I have to balance it. 

But then for basic stuff you can also just abuse the Max docs to learn
Pd. Both programs share very similar basics. At least I learned a lot
from the popular Max courses like Peter Elsea's stuff, and I keep a
Max-manual-pdf in reach.

As an example how similar Max and Pd still are (away from something
like Jitter): It took me only about three weeks to port all patches
from Essl's RTC-lib to Pd, including help-files. 

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__

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