Frank Barknecht wrote: [re: learning Pd] >After you read the html, go through the documentation patches once. >They are numbered for a reason: follow that order, and don't skip the >"2.control.examples" part just because you want to do audio stuff >immediatly. These examples are very important, too, to get the bigger >picture. All Pd patches can be edited, changed, copied etc. Doing >this is *the* way to learn Pd. > > In all things Pd, Frank is my guru, but I'm a devotee of the "plunge & sink" school of using computers for making music: Dive into what looks interesting, work there for a while, let things branch naturally, follow them to other interesting places in the system. I think Pd lends itself equally to rational and irrational approaches to learning and using its system. Best, dp
