Generative Drums in Pure Data

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This is my first (working at least) patch in pure data. It is a generative patch, meaning that I haven't done any sequencing whatsoever - the program is literally making it up as it goes along. I do a bit of tweaking with a midi-controller in the video, to control it to some degree. I know nothing at all about programming, please keep that in mind. Sorry about the sound quality, im recording by running the speaker output into the mic input. EDIT: The patch is now available for download here: http://rapidshare.com/files/72092876/markov_drums_2.pd.html As it is rapidshare, it may be removed after 90 days of no downloads. Let me know, and I'll put it back up. All I ask is that if you use it, please credit me as Ben Levitan or Chernobyl2, and let me know. Enjoy.

Channel: Music
Uploaded: July 9, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Author: theapc

Length: 0:02:06
Rating: 3.91
Views: 19,587

Tags: Pure Data PD electronic music generative drums midi Axiom m-audio autechre algorithm algorithmic max/msp max msp

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PyroD00d (Thursday 27th of November 2008 02:21:18 PM)
Very sweet sound, really like it
matju2 (Wednesday 15th of October 2008 12:39:08 PM)
no, Max was made first, then Pd was made by the same guy, while Max got picked up by a company, and then another company, and then MSP was made by copying part of Pd into Max, and then Jitter was made by someone else entirely.
theapc (Wednesday 15th of October 2008 03:44:53 PM)
Max, MSP, and PD are all by Miller Puckette. Max/MSP and Jitter are all made by Cycling74. While I'm not positive, I'm almost certain PD was first, and he developed it into Max (and later MSP) for Cycling74. You may well be right, but my impression has always been what I just wrote.
matju2 (Wednesday 15th of October 2008 09:52:31 PM)
why don't you put your impression aside and consult documentation about it. I think that the story is very well known in the Pd community. In over six years of using Pd you're the first person I hear claim that Pd was made before Max.
theapc (Thursday 16th of October 2008 10:23:59 AM)
My impression came from (now clearly incorrect) documentation. In (very much) over six years of being alive you're the first person I've heard get as hostile as you have over something as trivial as this.
matju2 (Thursday 16th of October 2008 10:36:10 AM)
You have a quite low threshold for calling people hostile... I've never seen documentation that claims that Pd predated Max. Care to give the title of that documentation?
theapc (Thursday 16th of October 2008 02:57:05 PM)
My threshold isn't particularly low. Your tone was simply very dismissive and patronizing. I don't know where I read that, I just remember that I did. I'm going to end this here as there is nothing more to be gained.
andrewsurtees (Wednesday 16th of July 2008 05:55:11 PM)
I do like PD, but Puckette didn't seem to have put his all into it, still prefer MAX/MSP. possibly because that's what i learned at uni (middx) I like this stuff but you're still just using it as a click sequencer when it can do a lot more (i still think i invented direct digital synthesis (a form of wavetable synthesis) using MAX/msp, so it'd be hard for me to admit that anyone's done anything that sounds pretty much the same)
lolwallace (Thursday 22nd of May 2008 01:59:41 PM)
haha fair enough :P, just grill whoever it was that logged in :)
theapc (Thursday 22nd of May 2008 01:55:59 PM)
haha, that bugged me a lot but I was far too lazy to rerecord it.