#21

Very much looking forward to seeing these tutorials. I’ve been following the teletype threads closely but still apprehensive to purchase as I’ve never coded anything in my life. I love the aesthetic and the idea of controlling the modular in this way, after reading the manual a few times its starting to make more sense to me. I’m positive I will learn from the built in scenes that ship with the teletype but I would like to gain a better understanding of it before it arrives.

I think examples of the commands used in context would help get a better understanding how they can be used . Maybe the tutorials could follow the structure of the manual like a different video for each section like patterns, variables parameters etc.then maybe some more in depth ones like how to combine multiple commands into a line or emulating other devices like random generators or whatever. I’m also interested to learn how you can get the scripts to influence each other and how teletype can be used for generative patching.

#22

Seems to me that there are three aspects to the manual/reference materials that might be worth considering:

  1. The command and key list (an exhaustive listing of all commands with their verbal explanations)
  2. A more of a “narrative” manual (much like the online documentation, that sort of guides the user from some basic concepts with examples into more ambitious applications)
  3. The command implementation list (where each command is presented in the context of a complete script).

Each being a separate document allows the user to first read the “narrative” (2) manual once (to get an understanding of the flow and general architecture of the system and language). Then read through the command list (1), and use the example document (3) as a reference to get a better understanding of the command, but also an opportunity to type the scripts directly into the user scenes and try them out.
Finally the command and key document (1) is something that, for example, I have printed out to have it on hand whenever I need to refresh my memory on particular piece of syntax. I would imagine this is the kind of thing that is useful in the first couple of weeks of use, and slowly becomes less important as user internalizes the syntax.

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#23

@tehn @laborcamp yes I agree that it fits better into the manual.

For tutorials, I did have a thought:

Before I got TT, I imagined I would mainly be actively scripting as I was patching – Now that I’ve had it for a bit I’m realizing that although working interactively is as valuable/useful as it is interesting, perhaps a more normal use case will be grabbing a previously created scene (from monome/the web/my own) that sets up TT to work in a way I want for that particular patch. Like a delayed signal echo, and env generator modifier, predefined scale machine… etc.

It might be cool in the tutorials to do an entire set up of TT from scratch to create some of these basic/generic scenes.

For example – while learning TT myself, I found that I avoid the included scenes because there seems to be too much going on at once, and I want to start way way more basic with just one or 2 scripts and experiment with commands and syntax. However, if the included scenes had video tutorials that build them up from scratch, I would feel a lot more comfortable using those scenes and modifying them.

It would be a nice way to leverage/build on the work that went into the scenes that are already finished.

#24

Oops;

Ok, I have a difficult time explaining myself. I just want to know how to make music. How to use Teletype to produce maybe a MIDI piece. Have you heard this song? How can I produce it on Teletype?

Blessings,
Damon †

#25

In some way that was my intention when putting together the Steve Reich based scene. Take a look here:

Is presenting the code enough?
Or would line-by-line explanation be useful/helpful?

#26

After staring at the readme for both meadowphysics and teletype for 3 days, it finally clicked. Pretty straight forward actually.

I have a simple question. It pertains to the max patch, not the module. Hopefully I will have modules and teletype by next year.

What does blacking out the keys on the piano do? It seems to still trigger those notes even when blacked. That’s it. Sorry if there is a better thread for this.

A tutorial would be very nice. I would like to see all the commands and examples of their implementation.

#27

Any link to some actuals tutorials for beginner users of Teletype? I’ve seen the code exchange topic, it’s great but I was wondering if there is specific tutorials to start using it.

#28

Try this wonderful thread by TT magician/wizard @scanner_darkly

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#29

Have you seen the teletype studies?

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