I use Facebook groups a lot for posting questions about synths and that sort of thing. However, the Pure Data group on Facebook looks to have fallen out of use.
Pure Data has been on my radar for a while, years actually, but I have tried a couple of times and found it to be a little too much past my level of knowledge when it comes to synths and computers. I think I have become comfortable enough with all the things that provide a good base for learning Pd aside from a good knowledge of programming in tradtionally typed languages. I have been dabbling in Raspberry Pi for years, spent some time using a Ubuntu Studio PC with Waveform and mostly hardware synths, and currently use mainly a Mac for my computing needs.
In this time I tried Patchblocks a couple of times and finally buckled down and actually figured them out. Too bad it was well after they sold their tech to another company and they are no longer widely used. It took me a while to learn enough about synth terminology and their use to become comfortable with that programming system too.
I suppose all the back and forth between different synths and some platforms that are not quite mainstream, (I would include Pd among those), I am finally figuring out the tutorials presented on Pd that I find.
As mentioned in the title of this post, I am working through that book. I had seen that some externals are available on GitHub and decided to give that a go and am posting the patches I make there for others to have a look at if they are interested. Here is that link:
https://github.com/playinmyblues/Working-Through-Pure-Data-Programming-Fundamentals-Vol-1
I also posted the link to that repository on the Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/puredata). If anybody reads this post that is an admin there, would you mind having a look at my post for approval?
I see that there are a fair number of people whom have joined that group recently so it might still get some traffic and use if it gets some posts.
Just to get the feel of what people are using, what is your preferred way of interacting with people interested in Pure Data? Where do you like to browse for ideas people have, post questions, answer questions, post music, etc.? Thanks.
