Making Generative Music | Intro to Pure Data

In this beginners tutorial we will create a generative music piece using basic sounds and sequencing which you will create yourself in Pure Data. I will explain all you need to know about what Pure Data is and how to use it.
Pure data is free and can be downloaded here: puredata.info/downloads/pure-...
0:00 Introduction
0:35 What is Pure Data
1:46 Pure Data Basics
6:27 Making sound
14:41 Hi-hat
17:31 Bass
23:22 Melody
27:35 Final song
29:24 Learn more about PD
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[@TheRanguna]

That was amazing dude. When you connected the melody bang to the hi-hat bang, my jaw dropped thinking of all the amazing things that could be done with this. And when you wrote subscribe and looked at the camera with a "Do it" look I laughed out loud and clicked the subscribe button!

[@DanielSimu]

Whoa, thanks so much, my first donation ever! 😍😍

[@arturkarlov3000]

You don't know how long I've been looking for a coherent tutorial on PD. Thank you for making this, looking forward to more!

[@DanielSimu]

I'm glad I could help!

[@LifeLedLucid]

I've never made music in my life except playing trumpet when i was little. This is very exciting and I'm happy to have stumbled across it

[@cuttygrass]

Daniel, this is exactly what I have been looking for for years. I have a background in audio engineering and have wanted to make my own generative music for a long time. The video was clear and accessible, and I really hope that you end up releasing some more intermediate or advanced ways of working with generative sound in pd - something about midi i/o integration would be amazing. Even if not, thank you very much - subscribed!

[@DanielSimu]

Great to hear, that's exactly what I hoped. Yes, I am considering more tutorials, thanks for subscribing!

[@LifeLedLucid]

Just Finished the whole thing, extraordinary job! Loved the music you generated

[@geohashi]

This was very satisfying to finish. Nice work! Thanks for the clear instructions.

[@hati5626]

I agree with everyone. I have been looking for a generative music tutorial for a long time. This is one of the best Pure data tutorials. Thank you so much. I got a lot of ideas here. 😀

[@raveniskcrow3638]

That was so cool! in all my years messing around with Max 7,8 and now PD, this was the only time I've seen someone make a song with the final construction. Well done!

[@DanielSimu]

Thank you, glad you liked it :)

[@replicaman9215]

Very nice. Finally a tutorial for an "advanced beginner" (no, not a real term, but describes me... someone who doesn't need the fundamentals explained in detail but has trouble taking that first step into actual usability). Great intro to the essential objects, and a good case study into how to build a simple generative piece. Thank you

[@DanielSimu]

I'm glad it helped you! Thanks :)

[@petecatt]

Such a great video - thank you!

[@acrocorps]

Brilliant video, thanks!! I'm completely new to puredata, have never used a visual programming software before and this is exactly what I needed!

[@DanielSimu]

Thank you, I'm glad to hear that!

[@dishop]

Молодчага! Очень нужный видос.

[@freakysubair2967]

Great tutorial, didn't know this existed until now. Thanks Daniel

[@DanielSimu]

I'm glad you discovered something new, enjoy!

[@itzelon]

This blew my mind!! I recently got a Daisy Seed and didn't know where to start. I was thinking on using Arduino IDE since I have some knowledge already but after seeing this I'm really excited to try Pure Data!! I really liked that is more visual and loved how clear your explanations were. Thank you for this video!!

[@playamaqui]

Thank you very much, Daniel!

[@DanielSimu]

My pleasure!

[@lummsmusik3219]

Fantastic live coding and live jam! Very good! Thanks so much!

[@DanielSimu]

Thank you, glad you liked it!

[@denisfuenzalida3746]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, I found your style very didactic and entertaining.

[@DanielSimu]

Thank you!

[@Jamslerr]

Thank you for this! You should make some more tutorials for PD

[@DanielSimu]

I'm glad you like it, I hope I have time for more in the future!

[@electron7373]

Excellent tutorial! Fun ending :)

[@sivoltage]

Amazing thank you. Subscribed.

[@tomtomnaha9449]

This video is amazing thank you so much! It helped me a lot to understand the basic structure of pure data😊

[@DanielSimu]

I'm glad I could help! :D

[@santiagomarcano6354]

this is really cool, thanks for your effort!!!!

[@DanielSimu]

My pleasure!

[@robertpiotrowski9586]

Awesome vid keep it up! Following!

[@Jo-ey3cl]

Cool stuff! Thanks!

[@DanielSimu]

You're welcome, thanks for watching

[@lennardbehnke3681]

thank you, that was great :D

[@sanjaykale6227]

Excellent bro.. very informative

[@arturzyx]

great tutorial! bedankt for sharing it!

[@DanielSimu]

Thanks, graag gedaan!

[@freeelectron8261]

Nice beginner tutorial. If like me you didn't get anything showing up in your array, you need to get out of edit mode (ctrl-e) with DSP on, then hit bang button.

[@myndwork]

Thank you 😊

[@DanielSimu]

And thank *you* for watching!

[@liesbest7555]

Nice and very entertaining 🎵👍🕺

[@abhikhasnain3263]

This is so cool

[@Paruthi.618]

this is so cool

[@wissanuuea-amornleot9890]

great music

[@DanielSimu]

Thank you! I hope you'll be making some great music too :)

[@claudiusraphael9423]

Love the SIDesque vibe, you should try to recreate the ring-modulation of the Commodore 64 II SIDs and use it on two sine-basslines strictly channeled L-R and make use of the dynamics, meaning define a threshold/range from where each channel is considered oversaturated e.g. the upper 25%/one4th so we have a channel-presence range of 25%/one4th to articulate into the room, but a center-presence-range of 75%/tri4th on each channel - overlap these to simplify and you get 2/3rd ... square, line, triangle, hexagon .. didn't you do a vid about Generative Art in Processing?

[@Tobi-oi3uf]

Thank.

[@DanielSimu]

Welcom.

[@oswwwaldotc]

Awesome 😎 How do you manage to show the pressed key on the screen?

[@jcsekinger]

haha excellent !

[@zptro6316]

my face started melting at about the 27:50 mark

[@hi.7038]

First of all, thank you for the tutorial. Can you make a tutorial about how to use our patches in ableton and fl studio? And one on how to make gui's and subpatches. Thank you again have a nice day.

[@DanielSimu]

Good ideas, if I have time some day I might!

[@f.botello]

what program do you use to show what keys you hit like when you hit “backspace”

[@DanielSimu]

KeyCastOW

[@jaibhimadevi5805]

I keep meaning to actually sit down and learn this and SuperCollider properly, since many wondeful thing are made with them.... also, the tutorial song reminds me of the sail barge music from Return of the Jedi (kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZC4pHx9obOMjM0) somehow... anyway, nice ,friendly, accessible intro to pd.

[@mariobroselli3642]

Mh but does it Show the Code?

[@DanielSimu]

What do you mean? All the code is visual in Pure Data

[@mariobroselli3642]

@@DanielSimu yeah, I think only options for audio engineering to use text are supercollider, sonic pi and Faust. I was looking for a software inbetween processing lang and a text based language.

[@stefanhansen5882]

Maybe I'm a moron, but I couldn't focus on anything you said due to your Teletubby hairstyle!