I think that many interesting things had been said in this thread.
I've set up a Wiki to post some of this info there. If somebody want to
help me... you'll be welcome!
(need to register with name+email, sorry for the inconvenience)
En/na Dave Phillips ha escrit:
Frank Barknecht wrote:
[re: learning Pd]
After you read the html, go through the
documentation patches once.
They are numbered for a reason: follow that order, and don't skip the
"2.control.examples" part just because you want to do audio stuff
immediatly. These examples are very important, too, to get the bigger
picture. All Pd patches can be edited, changed, copied etc. Doing
this is *the* way to learn Pd.
In all things Pd, Frank is my guru, but I'm a devotee of the "plunge
&
sink" school of using computers for making music: Dive into what looks
interesting, work there for a while, let things branch naturally,
follow them to other interesting places in the system. I think Pd
lends itself equally to rational and irrational approaches to learning
and using its system.
Best,
dp