Hi all,

I thought this was kind of interesting... it reminded me of CEMC

http://www.uvamagazine.org/site/c.esJNK1PIJrH/b.3958929/?auid=3486671

-Mike T. (former 220 student)

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 link to the information and videos I showed this afternoon in lecture.  Note the software section.  It should soon contain patches and other code to make this run.

http://www.popmodernism.org/scrambledhackz

A new book on PD, ideas and descriptions of pieces from the 1st International Pd~Convention in Graz in fall 2004:

bang | book

Grab it, it's free.  There is also a DVD which goes with the book.  It's available in the music library or for download as well.

There are also lots of lecture materials, tutorials, patches, etc, from the event found here:

http://puredata.info/community/projects/convention04/lectures

...lots of interesting stuff, including a fellow running a small radio station with PD!!  One in particular worth reading, which is at a beginning level in its intention is this one by Hans-Christoph Steiner, called "Building Your Own Instrument using PD".  He is the same guy who maintains the PD-extended builds I have been recommending for download.

Building your own instrument using Pd

http://www.turbulence.org/Works/song/mono.html

I don't even know how to begin with this... check it out

One of the explicit goals of Music 120 is to incite users to develop their own working methods and creative procedures.  Part of this is accomplished through information provided in lectures and in your time engaging the software available in the studios.  But as time goes by you will want to build your own software toolkit.  Free software is an excellent way to do this and there are many powerful applications available.  Indeed, many represent unique compositional tools unmatched in the world of commercial music software.

Below is a recent compilation of recommended software for various operating systems.  All software is available for free to the user and most has source code available under the GNU Public License (GPL).  I tend to favor tools with cross-platform implementations.  This gives the user a further freedom, allowing them to use whatever operating system they choose (or are provided with).  Before listing items by operating system, it is useful to list tools which will "run anywhere".  As this list grows, the list of system-specific tools can, hopefully, fade away.  A "*" denotes tools which are available for Unix systems only such as Linux, Mac OSX, Sun Solaris, etc.

First, a few quick links to downloads directly pertinent to lectures:

PureData installers (for pd-extended, all operating systems)
JACK audio connection kit for OSX

Audio/video:
Ardour* (Multitrack recording/editing) -- http://ardour.org
Audacity (Audio editing/recording) -- http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Audicle (One-the-fly programming) -- http://audicle.cs.princeton.edu/
Cecilia (Uber-app) -- http://cecilia.sourceforge.net and http://www.csounds.com/cecilia
Ceres3 (Spectral editor) -- http://www.music.columbia.edu/~stanko/About_Ceres3.html
ChucK (On-the-fly programming) -- http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu
CLAM (Spectral modeling/editing) -- http://clam.iua.upf.edu
Csound (Uber-sythn) -- http://csounds.com
JACK* (audio signal control) -- http://jackaudio.org
JAMin* (audio mastering) -- http://jamin.sourceforge.net
Mplayer (play/view almost any file type)-- http://www.mplayerhq.hu
Praat (spectral analysis) -- http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat
PureData, PD (Modular audio programming) -- http://www.puredata.org
Sndtools* (audio visualization) -- http://sndtools.cs.princeton.edu
SooperLooper* (Loops) -- http://essej.net/sooperlooper
Spear (Spectral editor; Mac and Windows only) -- http://www.klingbeil.com/spear/
SuperCollider* (real-time synth) -- http://www.audiosynth.com
Tapestrea (Sound design, analysis/resynthesis) -- http://taps.cs.princeton.edu/release
VideLANClient , VLC (play/view/stream anything) -- http://www.videolan.org
Xine (play almost any filetype, nice GUI) -- http://xinehq.de

Images/office/publishing:
GIMP (Photoshop replacement) -- http://www.gimp.org
GIMPShop (Photoshop replacement) -- http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294
Hugin (Panoramic image stitching/editing) -- http://hugin.sourceforge.net
Inkscape (Illustrator/Freehand replacement) -- http://www.inkscape.org
OpenOffice (MS Office replacement) -- http://www.openoffice.org
Scribus (High-quality publishing) -- http://www.scribus.net

Web:
Drupal (web management software) -- http://drupal.org
Firefox (web browser) -- http://www.mozilla.com/firefox
Gallery (online photo gallery software) -- http://gallery.menalto.com
GAIM (multi-protocol IM) -- http://gaim.sourceforge.net
GoogleTalk (IM) -- http://www.google.com/talk/
Nvu (free WYSIWYG web editor) -- http://www.nvu.com

Other interests:
Celestia (a 3D celestial browser) -- http://www.shatters.net/celestia
Stellarium (a virtual planetarium) -- http://stellarium.sourceforge.net

Mac-specific Recommendations (often Mac version of above apps):

Adium (IM) -- http://www.adiumx.com
AudioMove (Audio conversion) --  http://www.lcscanada.com/audiomove
Colloquy  (IRC client) -- http://colloquy.info/
ffmpegX (play/encode/decode anything) -- http://homepage.mac.com/major4
Fink (software management) -- http://fink.sourceforge.net
Fire (multi-protocol IM) -- http://fire.sourceforge.net
Gentoo (software management) -- http://www.metadistribution.org/macos
Handbrake (DVD to Div/X) -- http://handbrake.m0k.org
Hymn (iTunes DRM help) -- http://hymn-project.org/download.php
JackOSX  -- http://www.jackosx.com
MplayerOSX (OSX GUI) -- http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net
PVCX (OSX PVC) --  http://www.waveformsoftware.com/PVCX/pvcx.htm
OpenDarwin (Unix core) -- http://www.opendarwin.org
SoxWrap (Audio conversion)--  http://www.waveformsoftware.com/SoX_Wrap/soxwrap.htm

Windows-specific software recommendations:

Mobius (Loops) -- http://zonemobius.com
(others coming soon...offer your suggestions)

Linux Applications:

Unlike Windows and Mac, Linux is not an "app-by-app" world.  Installation is automated within the operating system.  WIth a base system in place, one can simply ask for applications and Linux will find them, download them, and install them for you.  This has led to application "bundling" (when it's so easy to ask for one, why not create ways to ask for lots of applications at once?).  Below are several audio/video-specific bundles of this kind.  Follow the directions on these pages and you will have a full-blown music environment running under Linux (for free) in a few hours.  One or two even run directly off of a CDROM (see below), just pop the disk in the drive, reboot, and you are ready to make music.

Linux will run on any hardware (PC, Mac, Sun, Xbox, toaster, etc) so you might consider adding it to your machine alongside your curret operating system.

Audio Bundles (install on Linux)
PlanetCCRMA: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
AGNULA: http://www.agnula.org/
Turnkey Linux Audio: http://tkla.sourceforge.net/
Thac pages: http://rpm.nyvalls.se
64 Studio: http://64studio.com/
Dave Phillips Pages http://linux-sound.org

Bundles which run from CDROM (no install required)
Dynebolic: http://dynebolic.org/
Plus24: http://www.plus24.com/m-dist/
Studio to Go: http://www.ferventsoftware.com/ (commercial)
Apodio: http://www.apo33.org/apodio/mediaw (in French)