Sound Synthesis With Max Or Pd

This introduction to Pd is in the form of a series of Pd patches.

• Save the lecture (a series of Pd patches archived here: pd_lecture.tar.gz) in your personal directory (in our examples the '~/clarence' directory): OS X might automatically save it to your Desktop. So, you may have to move it first to '~/clarence'
  • Extract files like this:

             ~> mv ~/Desktop/pd_lecture.tar.gz ~/clarence
             ~> cd ~/clarence
    ~/clarence> tar xzf pd_lecture.tar.gz

• Start Pd by clicking on the Pd icon on the Dock.

• Read and try the patches.

• Look through the Pd Examples from the 'Help' Menu.

STK

You might like to experiment with a collection of STK Physical and FM synthesis objects. To make them available in Max/MSP, you will need to install PeRColate. Or to make them available in Pd, you will need to install Stk2pd; however, it is currently compiled only for OS X and Linux.

The names of the STK objects are as follows:

• BandedWG~
• BeeThree~ (may not work on Mac)
• BlowBottle~
• BlowHole~
• Bowed~
• Brass~
• Clarinet~
• Flute~
• FMVoices~ (may not work on Mac)
• HevyMetl~ (may not work on Mac)
• Mandolin~ (may not work on Mac)
• ModalBar~
• Moog~ (may not work on Mac)
• PercFlut~
• Plucked~
• Resonate~
• Rhodey~ (may not work on Mac)
• Saxofony~
• Shakers~
• Simple~ (may not work on Mac)
• Sitar~
• StifKarp~
• TubeBell~ (may not work on Mac)
• VoicForm~ (may not work on Mac)
• Whistle~
• Wurley~ (may not work on Mac)

PID 2009