Hello, I'm fairly new to any kind of digital music production. I've been using Renoise on and off for about 6 months now and PureData just caught my eye as something I might be interested in learning.
I installed the puredata package from the repos, and it installed GEM also.

I've been searching and reading for a few days now and everywhere I go people talk about this "pd-extended" thing and...I can't find it in the repositories for US9.04, so I was wondering if the Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 version or the Debian Etch version work or something else?

In other words, how do I get the pd-extended for Ubuntu Studio 9.04??

I have no idea how to compile from source or anything so if that's the only solution a walkthrough on how to do it would be great.

Thanks
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does this help?

http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html

That seemed to do the trick, thanks.

This could be just a problem with ubuntu or something but pd seems to freeze constantly and it gives me errors every once in a while and occasionally even freezes the whole computer to the point where I have to hard boot the whole thing.

Has anyone else on Ubuntu Studio 9.04 or another version of US had similar problems and how did you solve them?

Finally managed to get the first sound out of pd (ALSA does not work at all, I get an error of the device being too busy), but jack goes wild with xruns (over a hundred in a few minutes).

It seems there's practically no-one who knows anything about pd using Ubuntu so google searches don't help me at all.

i just run mine with OSS or whatever that one is. It used to run fine with ALSA but for some reason it doesn't now. I use ubuntu studio, but have not upgraded to 9.04 yet. it's 8.10 or something i think. Usually you can get something to work with linux, but you're right, the documentation is sloppy, and the only way i think most people get it working is by trial and error.

Anyone who says that sound drivers on linux are ok has never used a mac.

but pd works better in general on linux, so i wouldn't go back to mac.

Yeah but OSS doesn't work either. Will mess around with both ALSA and OSS settings within pd a little more, but seems like my only option is jack even if it keeps crackling.

I wouldn't know about mac, but so far Linux has been the best option for me. Earlier I didn't have to do anything and everything worked automatically (Ubuntu Studio 7.10 for around a year and a half maybe), but as soon as I updated I've been having problems I don't seem to be able to solve.

EDIT: Ok my bad, I had jack running while I tried to use OSS, OSS works fine. But I would prefer some day (when I get better at pd) using it connected to other programs (Renoise), and when I try to use jack the terminal says: "cannot lock down memory for RT thread (Cannot allocate memory)" and jack gets dozens of xruns in seconds, so it crackles the whole time. The same thing with ALSA.

I tried to use OSS with jack but that didn't work at all, my mouse started lagging and the jack messages window was filled with "delay of 2656.000 usecs exceeds estimated spare time of 2621.000; restart ..."