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Pd Documentation chapter 1: introduction

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+This is the HTML documentation for the Pd computer program. +Pd is free and can be downloaded from the internet; +go to + + http://www.crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html +to get it. +

1.1. guide to the documentation

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Pd's documentation consists of: + +

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+This manual has five sections: + +

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  1. this overview +
  2. + a theory of operations, explaining how Pd works +
  3. + instructions on installing Pd and getting it to run +
  4. how to write C extensions to Pd +
  5. release notes and known bugs +
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In order to consult the reference and example patches, you'll first have +to get Pd started as explained in this manual. + +

+For a list of all the objects you can use in Pd, see the text file, +"0.INTRO.txt" in the directory, "../5.reference". To get help on any +Pd object you can right click on it; or you can browse the help patches +by choosing "Pure Documentation..." in the Pd help menu and looking in +5.reference. + +

+The example patches are also available from the "Pure Documentation..." item +in Pd's +"help" menu. The example patches appear in subdirectories named +"2.control.examples", "3.audio.examples" and "4.fft.examples." Some additional +patches in "7.stuff" might also be helpful. + +

+To get started writing your own C extensions, refer to chapter 4 of this manual. + +

1.2. other resources

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There is a new Pd community web site, + pure-data.info, which aims to be the +central resource for Pd, from documentation and +downloads; to forums, member pages, a patch exchange. + +

There is a growing number of Pd-related projects hosted at +SourceForge. This is open to all Pd +developers, and all are encouraged to join; send an email to the pd-dev list +(see below). + +

+Most of the interesting resources related to Pd show up on the Pd mailing list, +maintained by Iohannes Zmoelnig. To subscribe or browse the archives +visit: + + http://iem.kug.ac.at/mailinglists/pd-list/. + +. This is the +best source of recent information regarding installation problems and bugs. It +is perfectly reasonable to post "newbie" questions on this list; alternatively +you can contact msp@ucsd.edu for help. + +

Many extensions to Pd are announced on the mailing list. In particular, +for people interested in graphics, there is a A 3D graphics rendering package, +named GEM, based on OpenGL, written by Mark Danks, adapted to Linux by +Guenter Geiger, and now maintained by Iohannes Zmoelnig. GEM runs on +Windows and Linux and probably will run with some coaxing on IRIX. You can get +it from: http://iem.kug.ac.at/GEM . + +

At least three video processing packages are available for Pd. The oldest +is Framestein, by Juha Vehvilainen. This runs on Windows only: http://framestein.org . + +

The newer href="http://zwizwa.fartit.com/pd/pdp/overview.html"> PDP + library, by Tom Schouten, and its extension PiDiP by Yves Degoyon, run well +in linux and has been ported to Windows and MacOS. Video is extremely fast in +PDP, but is currently limited to 240x320 resolution. + +

Mathieu Bouchard has written +Gridflow , which runs on linux and MacOSX. The mathematical operators are +more powerful than in PDP, and the design makes smarter use of cache behavior +in modern CPUs. + +All this and much more is described in detail at the + +first Pd Convention . + + +

+Here are some more Pd links (in the order I found them):
+ + Miller Puckette's home page
+ Guenter Geiger's home page
+ Mark Dank's home page
+Pd page on Wonk (Klaus)
+ + Johannes M Zmoelnig
+ Norbert Math's Pd page
+ +Nicolas Lhommet's WikiWikiWeb page for Pd
+ Norbert's searchable list of all known +Pd objects
+ +Krzysztof Czaja's MIDI file support
+ +David Sabine's Pd Documentation Project: +new, highly detailed help windows
+ +Fernando Pablo Lopez's augmented Pd RPMs from Planet CCRMA
+ +Cyclone - Krzysztof Czaja's Max compatibility library
+On-line book project: + Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music
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