card included with your Organelle is preloaded with the factory patches and ready to go.
The Organelle M does not include a USB Drive.)
What are these "patches" you speak of?
They are files configured with the program
Pure Data
. While the term "patch" often refers
to the settings and parameter values that create one sound in a synthesizer (or some other
predefined system), Pure Data patches are a bit more expansive. Each patch represents
the entire software system for taking any/all input received by the Organelle, processing it
as desired, and then delivering the output as audio, etc., via the Organelle's output ports.
(So by analogy, these patches are closer to both the synthesizer structure itself
and
all the
settings and parameters that define its initial sound.)
Some patches require various support files (audio media, other support patches that are
being referenced, "external" objects, etc.). Any time we discuss a particular patch, it is fair
to assume that we are also referencing any necessary subsidiary files.
What is Pure Data? And do I need to learn it to use the
Organelle?
Pure Data
(often called
Pd
for short) is a
visual
multimedia programming environment,
meaning that its software files (yes, those
patches
) are created by adding objects from its
library and then interconnecting them with virtual
patch cords
. For example, here is a Pd
patch that simply adds together 32 oscillators:
