My respected PD list,

This is your off-topic, but quite on-topic to me.

I make music and sound for game and animation industry in my day time.
And in the night, I experiment with Audiomulch and Reaktor.
I just download PD and a few patches.
But have no clue how to start using PD.
I have done some search in Amazon, no luck on finding a good book of PD.
I think I need help of step-by-step about learning PD as a sound creation tool.
I know that PD can do a lot more than just sound creation.
But I need a starting place.
In my November exhibition,
I plan to use sensors from iCubeX (their starter kit) to make a piece.
SO I think I have a lot learn since this is more than just output from a computer, it also includes input.

Could someone please tell me how to start?

Thank you!

Monbaza in Taiwan

one of the best places to start is once PD is open
help => browser and then just start going through the examples
take bits and pieces you like into a new patch change stuff around see what sounds interesting going through the object list (if you ctrl+click on an open space in a new patch, at least on my macbook) and see what objects you think you would use

does the icubeX use OSC or MIDI i have some level of competence with using midi in and out but i haven't really used the OSC stuff yet

if you start going through the helps sections it really does get things started very quickly!

good luck to you in the world of PD

hi monbaza - i do the same thing as you do, but at night i'm a whore ... pd whore
anyway, i was once lost with Pd but now i must say that i learn by embarrasing myself posting some stupid questions & asking some obvious dumb one. but i guess we all got to start somewhere. so now i am not that lost...

here's a good start as sometimes pd browser is very hard to understand;

http://en.flossmanuals.net/puredata

of course don't forget about our own obiwan site, lots of cool pd info & patches to try;

http://obiwannabe.co.uk/

this pd workshop has a lot of example that you can check out as well;

http://puredata.info/docs/workshops

here's miller puckette's dsp book which you can check out as well & refers to a lot of Pd example;

http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques/latest/

unfortunately, there's no well documented pd book afaik, i'm waiting for obiwan's book to be release which i'm sure lots of helpful info...

have fun...

jackULL, I have to say your response is much than appreciated from me. These links are very practical especially the obiwan (startrekk rules!).
I am giving them a lot of trying and read-out. Hopefully I'll be lee lost in the next few weeks. Thank you for your very kind words.

@monbaza said:

jackULL, I have to say your response is much than appreciated from me. These links are very practical especially the obiwan (startrekk rules!).

you are very welcome... i know you mean Star Wars as Obiwan wouldn't be happy to be part of Captain Kirk's crew. here's the reason why;

@jackULL said:

:):)

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I laughed...

I laughed my head off......
Yes, these guys fat a lot i think...
imagine in such a small cabin.
Well.. yes , it sure is Star War...
All-be-One is the final answer to the galaxy.
I notice that in the early Luca film (THX 1138).
Some of his ideas have already explored.
And there is even an interesting thing that I discover in the American Graffiti.
I found a lincese plate (of a car) is THX 138.
Surely I do not think this is a coincidence.

search youtube for pure data vids- people make cool vids showing themselves building patches and i learntt a lot from it