intro to pd workshop 2015

 

Into to Pd Workshop:

• Installation (30 minutes before)
  If you would like help installing Pd on your computer, please show up a little early and we will do our best to help you. We will have Pd installers available on flash drives.

Introductions

• Starting/main screen/console
• Demonstrations
  • Lights + quneo
  • wavetable distorto
  • sampler/looper
  • granular patch
  • caradisio~

Our workshop approach: 

We will show some basic objects/ideas, then explore building a small demo using those objects.  We hope this exploration leads to a learning through hands-on tinkering and not just lecture learning!  We will also lecture a little.

Cleanse, repeat with more objects/concepts.

Part 1: (30 minutes)

• basics of data flow (graphical programming)
• basic types: bang, float, message, list
• OBJECTS
• widgets: bang, number, toggle, sliders, radios, message, print, comment
  • how to view/change graphical properties
• Signal and control graphs (and what this means/differences)
• how to find help

We build:

• data types (float, message, etc) with [print]
• dac~
• slider/radio/etc to osc~

Part 2: Math (45 minutes)

• +, -, *, /, modulo, etc.
• hot/cold inlets
• tilde versions of above math objects (show osc~)
  • hot/cold not relevant

We build:

• build some math patch using control/data, (eg. little formula)
• build some math patch math changing audio, (eg. gain stage)
• how to build a counter

Part 3: Control Objects (60 minutes)

• trigger
  • outlet ordering is important to resolve ambiguities
• select
• spigot
• metro
• pack

We build:

• sequencer
  • mtof

Part 4: Audio (60 minutes)

• dac~, adc~
• osc~, phasor~, signal~
• delread~, delwrite~, vd~
• lop~, hip~, bp~
• line~, vline~
• tabread4~
• env~

We build:

• am + fm
• adc~ with delay
  • then add feedback

Part 5: Interest and/or time allowing

• wavetable synth
• show tables, tabread, phasor
• abstractions, subpatches
• route
• moses
• notein / ctlin
• netsend / netreceive
• hid

Part 6: Experimentation time

• Let's tinker!
• We will show stuff and assist exploration

Notes:

• bring drives with pd installers
• link to the floss manual from the announcements

Resources

Put some resources here:

Best book ever written: http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Sound-Andy-Farnell/dp/0262014416

http://www.pd-tutorial.com/

https://www.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/

http://obiwannabe.co.uk/tutorials/html/tutorials_main.html

band limited oscillators and other useful things: https://github.com/dotmmb/mmb

http://pd.klingt.org/pd_ring/info.html

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