A little background...

I've been playing with sound/music creation under linux for a few years now using various JACK based tools. My bread and butter have been the specimen sampler, the hydrogen drum machine, ALSA modular synth, and sooperlooper.

I've messed around with csound a bit and become frustrated.

Anyway, I have a good understanding of digital audio and sound in general (I'm an electrical engineering undergrad). I'm a total puredata newbie though, and looking to get started.

I have puredata installed, but don't really know how to take the plunge. Are there examples that come with the ubuntu package? Any recommended online tutorials?

Thanks.

Hi!
Along with the examples included in Pd (By the way, did you install Pd, or Pd-extended), Obiwannabe's (http://obiwannabe.co.uk/) tutorials are quite good. Another well done tutorial is available here: http://en.flossmanuals.net/PureData .

I've also found it very edifying to download and examine the brilliant work of some of the people on this forum as well. Check out the Patch forum for starters.

How many other Linux users are there on this forum ? I sometimes get the feeling that most people on the forum are using Pd in Windows or MacOSX, but I'm not sure....

linux user +1

$linux_users++;

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/hiworld.pd

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salud

I am nestor$. and I am a Linux.

Linux here!

Another proud Linux user here!!!

(spanish: ¡¡¡otro linuxero orgulloso de serlo por aquí!!!)

Cool! Are there any problems/issues that are Linux specific that people are having? I for one seem to have variable success with getting Pd to run well with JACk. I'm talking about low latency and no or minimal XRUNs. Anyone else ?

Wannabe linux user here. I just installed ubuntu studio on my lappie, with a little help of a more confident linuxer. We tried to get ubuntu studio 64 bit to work, but for some reason PD extended was a bitch to get to work on that thing. Installed the 32 bit instead, and things are seemingly up and running with PD extended, althoug had some issues with slow video playback in GEM, but that's prolly a codec issue or something I guess...

Look to the w32codecs package from the Medibuntu repository, as well as the non-free-codecs package...

Rliivt _... 64bit .... pd extended ... _

pd-extended is (so far) based on pd-0.40, while 64bit support without brokenness only works in pd-0.41+ (and many externals will need fixing for 64bit, I imagine) - this means there is no 64bit pd-extended (yet).

Also a Linux user.

yeah. linux is great. takes a bit of work to get into it, but as they say 'no pain no gain'.
PD of course runs really well. i had to use OSX again the other day and i forgot how glitchy and slow the gui is compared to linux.

I use osx, but my pure:dyne stick arrived today, so i've got linux and PD on my eee and any other computer i hijack.

hello team,

New to PD, first post on the forum...

...and yes, using pd on ubuntu, 8.10 64 bit.
Thanks to this forum and this post:
http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-1947-extended-amd64

I having lots of issues with GEM though.
Can't open any video format and image files open but crash the session

Anybody been successful using GEM on 64 bit ubuntu??

Hi,
New on this forum...
Linux +1

Linux +1

Ubuntu 8.04

I'm totally new to digital audio production, so PD has been cool for learning some of the fundamentals about sound synthesis (like, what's an oscillator? what happens when you add two oscillators together?).

Some occasional frustration when I can't figure out if things don't work because they don't work, or because I typed a flag in caps at the command line and that sort of thing. It's all a big adventure, though, and I'm learning a lot at the end of the day.

Linux User ++

I use PD mainly under UBUNTU (8.04) and I think it works very well!!!

i'd like to switch to ubuntu as well, but i can't get PD workin properly. (xubuntu 8.10)
if i download it directly from the webpage and install with gdebi, then i get "/Gem.pd_linux: libmpeg.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" ....well, gem.pd_linux is definetly there. (or is libmpeg.so.1 the problem?)

i also tried "sudo apt-get install puredata", it only installs vanilla, but i need the libraries!

if i do it with synaptics, audio doesn't seem to work and it doesn't show up in the menu. if i start it by typing "pd", i get no error messages. but if i tell a single .pd-file to open with pd, gem doesn't work again.

i'm confused, i hope my text wasn't as confusing and you could understand.
is there a linux-noob-proof way of installing, or should i maybe try with hardy 8.4 or another distribution? thanks

hey,
DO AT YOUR OWN RISK
You could try adding these repositories to your etc/apt/sources.lst :

#pd-extended repo
deb http://otherside.servebeer.com/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://otherside.servebeer.com/ubuntu intrepid main

And then install pd-extended from synaptic.
I did and it is working much better now, not perfect but it is usable.

I've been trying to find where I got this info from but can't seem to find it, otherwise I'd give you the links to it.

good luck.