Balint's Blog » Others’ work http://blog.spench.net balint at spench fullstop-decimalpoint-dot net Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:53:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Pd (Pure Data) and friends http://blog.spench.net/2007/07/27/pd-pure-data-and-friends/ http://blog.spench.net/2007/07/27/pd-pure-data-and-friends/#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:31:20 +0000 balint http://blog.spench.net/2007/07/27/pd-pure-data-and-friends/ I recently downloaded and started playing with Pd (written by Miller S. Puckette, the same chap who started Max/MSP).

For reference, these are some good sites to learn about Pd and download loads of goodies to extend its functionality:

I am in the process of creating a Visual Studio 2005 VC project/solution to supersede the antiquated command-line based Makefile compilation process. I hope this will draw more people to extending Pd and creating new/contributing to existing externals in a friendlier development environment!

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