alt Hacker NewsWhat is the best book?
Don't think I would call this about PureData, it just uses PureData for examples and the knowledge it provides is more general.
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nonrandomstring • 12/09/2024
Of course Millers is the best book, I'm just joshing.
He created the language.
And I'd argue it's more than just a "language", it's a creative paradigm.
What's more TTEM is still available for free download from World Scientific Press, whereas MIT allowed me only to make a subset of mine free.
Another thing of note; Miller has carefully conserved the development of Vanilla Pd such that every example in his book (and mine) still work exactly as they did more than 10 years ago. How many languages can boast that stability?
I don’t know what the best book would be, but I found this extract from Andy Farnell’s book “Designing Sound” to be a very helpful introduction to Pure Data:
http://aspress.co.uk/ds/pdf/pd_intro.pdf
Another useful book is “Loadbang - ProgrammingElectronic Music in Pd” by Johannes Kreidler. The 2nd edition is evidently out of print, but a free download is available here:
https://www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher/johannes-kreidler-l...