PID2008 Intro to Pd

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

• First, you need to set up your Pd environment.
  • Save the file .pdrc into your home directory. (Right-click, choose Save Link As...)

• Save the lecture (a series of Pd patches) in your pid2007 directory: pd_lecture.tar.gz
  • Extract the notes:

            ~> cd ~/pid2007
    ~/pid2007> tar xzf pd_lecture.tar.gz

• Start Pd:

    ~/pid2007> pd

• Read and try the patches.
• Look through the Pd Examples from the 'Help' Menu.

A collection of STK Physical and FM synthesis objects are now available in Pd. Check out the following objects:

• BandedWG~
• BeeThree~
• BlowBottle~
• BlowHole~
• Bowed~
• Brass~
• Clarinet~
• Flute~
• FMVoices~
• HevyMetl~
• Mandolin~
• ModalBar~
• Moog~
• PercFlut~
• Plucked~
• Resonate~
• Rhodey~
• Saxofony~
• Shaker~
• Simple~
• Sitar~
• StifKarp~
• TubeBell~
• VoicForm~
• Whistle~
• Wurley~

Links:

• http://www.puredata.org/ -- the Pd Community Site
• http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Pd_documentation/ -- Official Pd Documentation
• http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/pdrp/latest/doc/ -- Pd Repertory Project; Patches that can run selected pieces of the live electronic music repertory using Pd
• http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques.htm -- Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music by Miller Puckette; online (and print) book with examples in Pd
• http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html -- Pd-Extended installers; Pd with lots of externs

PID 2007