Welcome to the many versions of Pd. As discussed today in class there is the basic Pd package (called Vanilla) available at puredata.info, which is up to version 0.41.2, and then there is the extended package which has all kinds of cool extras and is up to version 0.39.3 , also available there.

For compatibility with the latest version of JackOSX on Intel Macs we have our own build (thanks to Nick Knouf) available here, of version 0.40.3-extended, which hopefully will also run on 10.5; let us know. Experimental builds of 0.4x-extended for PowerPC, Windows, and various Linux distributions can be found here.

One note, if you have a version of 0.39-extended already and you try one of these 0.4x-extended versions, you may have trouble getting the externals to load. Let me know, I can show you how to fix it, but it's too complicated to type out here.

DW

Here's the lineup for Thursday's show:

Remember, we'll be alternating between the computers with one person setting up on one while the other performs. Make sure your setup works and is completely contained on the computer you are assigned to.

If for some reason you missed class today, contact one of us to get a spot on the program.
Good luck.

DW

I saw all the 220 folks' delay patches, so I thought I would post my own, which I just made, for everyone's enjoyment/edification. It's a bit of a mess, but everything to play with is in color. Make sure and check out the filters subpatch.
To paraphrase Sir Walter Scott:
Oh what a tangled web Weave weaves
when first he practices PD.

Ahoy, ahoy from the desk of the weave, better known as Dave Weaver, and perhaps best known as le connard. I have the honor, it appears, to be the first student of music 620 to post here. I am in my first year of the doctoral program in composition and am hoping to make digital techniques a part of my repertoire. The other grad students will be sick of this introduction already--I know I am sick of making it--but...I did my undergrad at Swarthmore College where I earned a degree in physics and also studied composition with Gerald Levinson. After that, I spent three years in Philadelphia doing research in cell biology (I'm still not quite sure why). As suits my likely future as an academic, I have broad interests but am only capable of producing narrow and esoteric work. To set my sights higher than this would be self-delusion, so I'll say that I hope to gain enough knowledge in this course to make sounds that few will enjoy and fewer (perhaps none) will understand. (Another perhaps key piece of my biography to mention is that I was voted the most sarcastic member of my high school class, hence le connard). Truly, though, I'm quite excited to have, as the RZA would say, mad toys to make noise. Cheers my dears and good luck.