Pd is great.  If you also use Csound, check out the csoundapi~ Pd object that comes with it.  Pure Data basically calling Csound, sending whatever messages you want.  I like it because I like designing instruments and sound processing in Csound (especially for the pvs opcodes), and as you say, MIDI input is far simpler in Pd, but may be passed to Csound through csoundapi~.
<br><br>-Chuckk<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ken Restivo</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:ken@restivo.org">ken@restivo.org</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>I had avoided PD for a long time because I don&#39;t like clicky-draggy things, and prefer working with text.<br><br>Bah, what was I thinking??! PD is tight! Fast, simple, and it works. I love it.
<br><br>Many thanks to whomever pointed me at PD. I had been banging my head against the wall, trying to figure out how to build MIDI-controlled instruments in SC/ChucK/Csound-- and it turned out to be trivially easy in PD.&nbsp;&nbsp;There was some sample code, I modified it, and here we are:
<br><br><a href="http://www.restivo.org/blog/podpress_trac/web/184/0/phoneme-dance.ogg">http://www.restivo.org/blog/podpress_trac/web/184/0/phoneme-dance.ogg</a><br><br>(description here: <a href="http://www.restivo.org/blog/archives/184">
http://www.restivo.org/blog/archives/184</a>)<br><br>I also had avoided dealing with seq24 for a long time, but now after having used it for a few tunes, I like it a lot.<br><br>(Hydrogen, PHASEX, AZR3, and fluidsynth were also used on this tune)
<br><br>- -ken<br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)<br><br>iD8DBQFG0UJMe8HF+6xeOIcRApzlAJ0UYFfdgjf9dYW4sTjHo4ZbTotI7wCgsVB5<br>fnnFsJbr9JB4RmDqXQTf7LI=<br>=TNYn<br>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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