Hi

I'm a total noob to PureData. I find it a bit confusing at the moment so bear with me if this sounds a bit stupid..

I would like to use PD in conjunction with a hardware MIDI keyboard, to build my compositions in my usual way (I sort of "multitrack" separate instrument parts over a sequenced beat, and then zoom in on graphically-represented MIDI events and shift them here and there or delete them or change note properties). The MIDI events are then played through my soundcard's internal MIDI port. I would like to do ALL this with PD.

However, there's something NEW I'd like to do too. Namely, I want to use the aforementioned compositional technique, except define my own instruments using FM synthesis, and then to send certain channels to DSP effects units. I then want to be able to control, with my hardware MIDI controller, the wet/dry and other FX parameters relating to individual software effects, and to automate (i.e. record with MIDI) my own actions as I tweak the effects.

So far, no software allows me to have the perfect setup, but it seems that PD might be powerful enough for me to design and implement this environment to my exact requirements. My simple question is: is this a normal use of PD (i.e. can it be done)? Thanks

Oh, thanks for your response. I guess that it's not really feasible then, since a fairly sophisticated GUI is a basic necessity of MIDI work (to take advantage of the flexibility of MIDI over "real" recording).