hey guys

I got into this sound syntheses thing a few weeks ago and then found pd. So I realy have no idea of nothing.

As you see in the attachment, I tried to get some sound out of my old joystick . The controle construktion works pretty well imho but the sound realy suck and it starts to sputter at some points.
So you may could give me some hints, links, and everything.

have fun playing around with it... and if you havent got a joystick just try manipulating the sliders via mouse

greets Gorky

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/joy5.pd

Great start, Nice waveform crossfader. I don't seem to get the stutter you talk about. Maybe you need to tweak your audio settings. See if you get the stutter when you use media->test-Audio/MIDI and only play a test tone.

If you want a smoother control of the sound add some [line] or [line~] generators. See the "Theremin" example in this workshop.

http://www.obiwannabe.co.uk/html/workshops/mediamatic/mediamatic.html

I startet to implement some other things...

thx for the link obiwannabe. I tried some synthy and tutorial files from your site but most of them didnt work for me and im not realy sure about whats going on... somethimes the interface ins destroyed becourse of changed element and font size and I m getting al lot of "error: inlet: expected '' but got 'bang' or 'xyz'

im to tired at the moment but will come up with some more concrete questions tomorrow

Greets

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/shredder.zip

ok I got some Sounds now
they are controlled with joystick axes ... mostly pitch, volume, noischaracter, left to right...
Im missing some smooth ambiant sound and i wasn't able to find something I liked and was able to implement too.
The sample player is triggerd by [r keystroke] from GrIPD. How can i avoid to get a bang for keydown + keyup? I need only one bang per keyhit.
Ok the sounds... but to combine them, to use it as a live instrument i need something like... don't know how to name it ... sequenzer or loop player or something. Just to record on the fly and the use it as accompaniment. Solutions wanted ^^

Greets Gorky

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/shredder2.zip

"How can i avoid to get a bang for keydown + keyup? I need only one bang per keyhit."

That's a tough one. You might be able to turn it off in your OS, but there's no satisfactory way to eliminate repeated keys from inside Pd. For any kind of live performance you probably want to use another input device.

Perhaps try a midi solution using [xeq] or [midifile] for your sequencer. I'm sure if you look and ask around you won't have to reinvent that wheel, there's plenty of people who made loop style recorder/ sequencers.

Otherwise you need to understand lists, so look at the

help files and there is an example of how to make a time tagged sequencer. Here's an example that plays nice cheesy 80's electropop that way.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/music-listsequencer.pd

Ok i did it...
had some little presentation yesterday. I finished my sequenzer thing in the afternoon but im not comfortable with it yet. So i decided spontaniusly to get some people to play the didge and a flute for ambience background, and i think it was the right decision to get it diversified. The soundsetting was sadly a kind of random so the flute was to loud and covered a lot of my sounds. :-/

But at all I'm very happy with the result, though everithing was some "quick an dirty" work. I had a lot of fun to learn something about pure data and let's see if my little projekt will develope in the future. I hope you can imagine something of the live feeling, I'm realy sorry for the bad recording (... it was my digicam). Just think of it as wafting billows from one corner of the room to the other =)

Primal Soundscape

Greets Gorky

Yeah, shame its a terrible recording. But your synth fits well into the piece witha title Primal Landscape. Sometimes it's a growling lion or monster and it blends into the didge really well. Also I like the Floyd type guitar sound at the top. Sounds like it was well received from the applause. Hope you had a good gig, and thanks for sharing your output.