..on or around Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 03:57:21PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I am familiar with the history of max and PD.
>
> I used PD/GEM 3 years ago and was not very happy with the video
> functionality at the time. Based on the response from everyone It
> seems like I should definently take another look at it.
>
> We try to offer open source alternatives to all software here at the
> Digital Media Design program and PD is the open source alternative
> that we offer to max. So yes it will be introduced. We are using
> Max/Jitter due to the installed base of support and the well
> documented video tools. It is also a question of having students dive
> right in, or fight with a poorly documented and poorly considered user
> interface.
believe it or not there are those that prefer PD to Max/MSP arguing that
Max/MSP is too visually dominant. i dislike both interfaces, but choose PD
over max for a few reasons:
1. it runs on my operating system, whereas Max doesn't.
2. PD will run on any major operating system; great for collaboration.
3. Max/MSP costs money and is closed-source; unweildy for collaboration.
4. PD can open Max patches, not vice versa (AFAIK).
5. it seems much more interesting development is being done in PD these
days: it's where the fun is.
6. i can build a sound-server in PD and run it in no-gui mode, which
is simply excellent for installations - it runs in the background.
there is a lot of reasonable documentation out there for PD, it's just
not in one place. admittedly this can be fairly frustrating.
here however is a good starting point.
http://puredata.info/docs/
also see:
http://puredata.info/docs/tutorials
better still wait for the flossmanuals contribution from Derek - this
will probably be the most useful beginning point for new users (outside
of a workshop itself of course).
julian
Madrid, Spain
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>
> Quoting Damian Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> Students will have blogs where they will be posting their research
> >> and progress throughout the course. I've got some links on the page
> >> to some good resources for max/msp as well as quartz composer. We
> >> will also have a public performance/presentation of the final
> >> projects at the film archive in october. I'll post that to the
> >> list as we get closer.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure how many Jitter users are here in Wellington, but
> >> there are a few people that specialize in MAX/MSP for audio.
> >>
> >> The max environment can be quite daunting, but there are lots of
> >> great resources out there as well as the built in help system.
> >
> > is any time being given to PureData? PD is functionally identical to
> > Max/MSP but is open source and free to download and use. The manual
> > leaves something to be desired and the GUI isn't as nice as Max, but it
> > does the trick.
> >
> > --
> > damian stewart | +44 7854 493 796 | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > frey | live art with machines | http://www.frey.co.nz
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