Pd 0.41-4

Pd stands for 'PureData' and is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio and graphical processing.

It resembles the Max/MSP system but is much simpler and more portable; also Pd has two features not (yet) showing up in Max/MSP: first, via Mark Dank's GEM package, Pd can be used for simultaneous computer animation and computer audio.

Second, an experimental facility is provided for defining and accessing data structures.

Requirements:

· C compiler
· X windows (including the X development package for Pd to link against)
· TK

Installing

From RPM

Open a "shell" window, cd to the directory containing the file, and type the command,

rpm -i pd-0.XX.i386.rpm

(substituting the real file name.)

Then you should be able to type "pd" to a shell and watch the Pd main window appear.

From Sources

Open a "shell" window, cd to the directory containing the file, and type the command,

tar xzf pd-linux-033.tar.gz

which creates a directory named "pd". I do this from my home directory. Next, compile t. "CD" to pd and read the INSTALL.txt, or else just cd to "pd/src" and type

./configure
make depend
make

You can pass flags to "configure" to customize your compilation:
To enable debugging (and losing code optimization) add "--enable-debug".
To use Portaudio version 19 (experimental), add "--enable-portaudio".
To put Pd in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin, add "--prefix=/bin".

Alsa and Jack support should auto-configure, but "--enable-alsa" od "--enable-jack" ill force their inclusion.

After "make", just type "~/pd/bin/pd" to run pd.

Alternatively, as superuser, you can run "make install" after "make depend" and then anyone on your system can just type "pd" to run it.

What's New in This Release:

· add support for callback-based audio I/O
· headers & code changed to use t_float or t_sample instead of float



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