Starting a Pure Data Wiki (Database/Examples Collection)

beem

Not really Off Topic but anyway...
Is it time for a real, neat, fully functioning Pure Data Wiki ?
It could be useful to have a place to collect patches or links to Pure Data examples, use them to illustrate different synthesis techniques, or applications of PD and so on. Some of the threads on this forum provide a good overview of subjects like reverb, granular synthesis or handling midi polyphony and it would be great to be able to summarize what's been worked out here and put it into a neat form somewhere.
Does this exist already somewhere? Would people be interested in contributing to something like this? Would it be useful?

ingox

@lordgreekfolder Ok, if you start a wiki i provide some patches or something

whale-av

@ingox So, how is it going to work?
Someone needs to work out a hierarchy and format with appropriate page titles.
Permissions will be needed to keep it under control.
I think it will need to be quite constrained or it will just become a parallel of this forum.
It will need to be kept very tight.
References at the bottom for useful follow-up like in Wikepedia, but restricted concise information for each page or it will run out of control.
Any links will have to lead to a concise sensible page too......... not a discussion.

I would suggest starting with all known Pd objects, especially as the documentation is already mostly done in their help files.... that currently you only get to see once you have created the object....... that you might not know exists.
So maybe the same hierarchy as Pd..... math, audio, audio math, gui, ..... as in help-intro.pd... ?
But the elephant in the room is the tilde~. A wiki which doesn't use it as a Boolean operator?
David.

tabache

Hi,
I'm studying PD from about 1 month. I'm projecting a part of my new live setup with PD, therefore I think i will stay here for a long time

I was just thinking how could be useful to have a wiki for pure data, so I'm pleasantly surprised to find this thread!
I must say that, to find information, I have found myself confused several times with the various platforms of Pure Data!
So I think a wiki can be a great connector and glue.

Each person will be able to contribute, and I believe that a structure of this kind has a great potential.

For example, in these days I felt the need to have a manual for the entire external librarys, to be able to easily browse what's inside all that. Currently it seems to me that there is none of this on the web. Also here, the wiki could be very powerful (for a section dedicated to externals/deken, I would be happy to work on it).

I think that initially it is good to leave registrations open to contribute, to encourage people to help (but certainly in the future, you can always change). I have seen many wikis work fine with open registrations.

So, does anyone have an idea for a server that we could use and try to start?
I believe this pandemic period could be perfect for starting this project!

p.s. there are other PD communities not mentioned by @lordgreekfolder , like Facebook (really big) and Telegram.

beem

Thanks for all the replies to this. It's taken me a while to understand the various responses I got to this idea but it's gradually become a bit clearer. It seems that there are actually several possible Pd wikis that could be made or combined:

A wiki of Pd objects - a sort of in-depth illustrated help with tips and examples for every object and external

A wiki of Pd methods and applications - how to use Pd; e.g. handling midi, random functions, FFT, etc

A wiki of Pd resources, links, and examples - a guide to what is available online, Pd tutorials, instruments - a kind of collective annotated bookmarks collection

The last one is what I personally had in mind initially and I have my own version here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tzS2KU8x31JXoUxmkEr5WikJvxcrgHa4C0vM8LBw49Q/edit?usp=sharing

which anyone is welcome to join in on. It's currently a bit of a mess and not sorted into any real system. I understand from certain replies that some people don't think it's a good idea to make access to other people's work too easy but I think the more fun you have with Pd, without having to learn everything the hard way, the better.

lordgreekfolder

@beem I love it. This is amazing! I have so many scattered bookmarks and whatnot that I'm going to sift through and add to this doc.

Thank for this.

Also, just to clarify my earlier comments: I'd like to make it clear that I love this idea completely, and if anything I said was interpreted to mean that this is a bad idea, then I apologize for that. The main thrust of my earlier comments was really to ponder what I see as the fragmented state of PD. My reasoning was this: a stronger community would lead to a stronger collaborative effort at wiki-building.

And also, a stronger community would lead to an even stronger community. This is not the thread for that conversation, though.

Cheers!

beem

@lordgreekfolder cool - well, send me a message on here or use the email on the doc and I'll make you an editor!

and I wasn't referring to your comments!

whale-av

@beem It's a very good start and already will "PD help" a lot of people.
You won't be able you use hyperlinks like a true wiki until you have control of the content though.
And that will need content storage in the wiki...... so permission to copy...... or content creation..... and a faster host.

But already it will let us use hyperinks in the forum and elsewhere to give people help with for example Pd Granular synthesis without having to scrape for links.
You should probably add the Floss manual even though it is very "extended" still.
In fact it should have a whole section on missing libraries and how to make old patches work in Vanilla...... with hyperlinks back to this forum and others.
Good work..!

whale-av

@beem Just found some excellent links on @katjav 's site....... http://www.katjaas.nl/puredata/puredata.html

Not all the links are still valid but most are.
Like this one for the Arduino and Pd...... https://playground.arduino.cc/Interfacing/PD/
David.

beem

Another sample from the work-in-progress ...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tzS2KU8x31JXoUxmkEr5WikJvxcrgHa4C0vM8LBw49Q
I thought it would be worth having a category for these more self-contained collections

Modular Systems in Pd

ACRE
https://git.iem.at/pd/acre

ARGOPd
http://gerard.paresys.free.fr/ARGOPd/

Automatonism
https://www.automatonism.com/

Context
https://github.com/LGoodacre/context-sequencer
https://contextsequencer.wordpress.com/

DENSO
https://www.d-e-n-s-o.org/pure

DIY
http://pdpatchrepo.info/patches/patch/76

Kraken - Virtual Guitar Effects Pedal Board
https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11999/kraken-a-low-cpu-compact-highly-versatile-guitar-effects-stompbox

LWM Rack
http://lwmmusic.com/software-lwmrack.html

La Malinette
http://malinette.info/en/#home
Open toolkit for hardware and software interactive art-making systems

Mandril Boxes
http://musa.poperbu.net/index.php/puredata-mainmenu-50#mandril

Metastudio
http://www.sharktracks.co.uk/html/software.html