Hi to all!

I put together a bite-sized set of abstractions specifically geared towards starting game audio projects with PD.
Included is a state-based drum machine, mixer abstractions, patches for interactive music crossfades, little synth modules and some utilities. It's my first abstractions set, so feedback is absolutely welcome of course!

I hope that some of you diving into using PD as a game audio engine will find these useful! (I've been using a lot of PD with Unity and the Kalimba plugin).

https://github.com/fbpsound/pip_abstractions

Currently contains:

• simple envelopes for shaping volume of synths and samples (adsr and such)

• channel strip abstraction with send levels

• mixer abstraction (basically more channels in one for getting started quickly)

• couple of super simple synths to start experimenting with realtime generated music in games

• drum machine that loads samples and can store and change patterns depending on game state

• small object to connect unity with pd via kalimba

• tool to pitch samples depending on position in a song (useful for Mario Galaxy style sound effects that change depending on the harmony in the loop!)

• Fade logics for creating interactive music based on layers (additive and crossfade layer)

• simple limiter for preventing ears to explode

• couple of metronome abstractions (also with subdivisions)

• little NES style synth for chiptunes project

• piano phase inspired mini sequencer

• random object without repeat

• mega simple sampler

most of you will just know how to make these in a breeze, nothing super fancy in there- my idea was to collect a set of patches that might aid the interested game audio person in exploring PD as an audio engine!

Cheers,

FBP

nice! - I like the phase abstraction! good work

I joined to say thank you for this awesome resource! Very VERY simple, straightforward and useful patches. This is totally slept on on the forum.

I was wondering if you could provide or point to more in-depth instructions re: how to get pure data working within unity. I've got Kalimba working in my Unity apps, like on the iPad, but testing requires building an Xcode project. Have been very confused trying to get pure data working within Unity itself. Any additional help would be a godsend.

Regardless, awesome work and I hope mobile developers and libpd people see this!! Thanks again!

Came back to chime in that i don't know what was so difficult the past few days. this morning I was able to run the kalimba test app in unity's editor and successfully communicate w/ PD with no issues. Thanks so much for all the work on Kalimba and these abstractions.

Darn, somehow I didn't get email notification for new posts, sorry for the late reply!

Glad you liked it and hope you find them useful in the future as well- will be adding more stuff for sure, as well as tweaking what's already there.

Best,

FBP

Thank you very much for sharing this, I just gave the NES synth a try and I love it!

Yes, the NES synth is really cool, thanks for sharing this!