Pure Data 0.43.1-extended-20120815

Pd is a real-time, graphical programming language for media processing. It provides an environment for audio analysis, synthesis, and processing, with a rich set of multimedia capabilities. You can get Pd for Linux, Windows, MacOS X, BSD, or IRIX.

For more information, go to: http://puredata.info

Installation

Installing Externals, Objects, and Help files

If you would like to install other externals, objects, help files, etc. there are special folders that Pd-extended uses, which are listed below. If the folder does not exist, you should create it. You can find out more details about this by reading that FAQ: How do I install externals and help files?.

Only for the current user account
~/pd-externals/
For all user accounts on the computer
/usr/local/lib/pd-externals

Flext Binaries have been removed from Pd-extended

As of release 0.41.4 of Pd-extended, the whole package is built from source every night. That means that some objects have been removed from the package because they were not being built from source (objects like [pool], [msd], [flashserver], etc.). You can download these objects from the original authors or get the files from the 0.40.3 Pd-extended release.

License

This package is released under the GNU GPL. The Pd core and some other included code is originally available with a BSD license from the Pd CVS on SourceForge.

Patented Algorithms

This package may contain software that is covered by patents in certain countries, like the U.S. and Germany. In order to use this software you must have the proper license. Below is a list of the known software packages that are covered by patents in some countries:

Please consider trying to get rid of software patents in your country: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com

Pure Data CVS Developers

Alexandre Quessy -- august black -- B. Bogart -- dmotd -- Tom Schouten -- Ed Kelly -- Hans-Christoph Steiner -- Yvan Volochine -- Frank Barknecht -- Franz Zotter -- Guenter Geiger -- carmen rocco -- Jonathan Wilkes -- João Pais -- Katja -- lluís gómez i bigordà -- Luke Iannini -- mescalinum -- Miller Puckette -- Iain Mott -- Martin Peach -- Thomas O Fredericks -- Bryan Jurish -- Nicolas Montgermont -- Cyrille Henry -- David Plans Casal -- Jamie Bullock -- Roman Haefeli -- Ricardo Fabbri -- Winfried Ritsch -- David Doukhan -- Sergi Lario Loyo -- musil -- IOhannes m zmölnig

Many others not listed have contributed their time and effort, this is just a list of the current developers in the SourceForge project. But really, every Pd user is a developer and is encouraged to contribute to the CVS repository.

Included Libraries

To find out about which libraries are included in Pd-extended, see Libraries in Pd-extended. Here's some of the libraries that are included:

(this package was built on Wed Aug 15 12:40:29 UTC 2012)