Hi, I recently started learning Puredata reading this tutorial: http://www.pd-tutorial.com/english/index.html
I'm generally interested in making electronic music, but since I'm trying to play in a band as a "drummer" I wanted to use Pd as a drum machine. I'm thinking about a live situation and the best approach to that. My idea for this, at the moment, is to create a patch with some sort of step sequencer and a matrix or something to change drum patterns. Then, for a live concert I'll have this patch saved different times (once for every song we should play) with different patterns. Then I'd like to implement something to play with the drum sequence: adding effects, moving samples, randomize the pattern. Everything to actually play something live. One of the main problems I'm thinking about is the metronome. I don't think we are going to use a metronome or a click live to play at a predetermined bpm and often the drums start after others are playing at a certain bpm. So it would be hard to define a fixed bpm and stick with it live. I was thinking if is there a way to make a patch retrieve the bpm dinamically. For example, when a song starts, I can tap my fingers on a key and from that it can retrieve the bpm that I can use in the rest of the song. Can you suggest me a way to do this? Then, since I'm a beginner and I just know the basics of Pd programming, what can I study in particular to create a drum machine? And, do you have other suggestions or better approaches to achieve my goal? Thanks for your help, Carlo _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
