hello all, I've been away from pd for a while. Wanted to update pd to the current version. Downloaded and installed the 0.43.4 beta.

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit.

As soon as pd opens the main window, an error is thrown:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: pd.exe
Application Version: 0.43.0.0
Application Timestamp: 50c5a23b
Fault Module Name: StackHash_0a9e
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 05f7df80
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

I have wiped out the pd-extended key from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node with no benefit.

Hello,

For some time now I've been having problems opening patches that people have been posting on this forum as *.zip.

I've just discovered that these are in fact tar.gz archives.

WinRAR on Windows is capable of extracting tar and gz, but it's not smart enough to detect that the content of the gz is a tar.

So, what I do is extract the gz file, add a .tar extension to the end of the file, then open it again with WinRAR.

Hello, I'm running Windows 7, and like other Windows users was dealing with some pretty serious latency even when using ASIO drivers for the Focusrite Saffire Pro 40.

I discovered that by using the windows task manager to change the priority of the PD process, that I am able to work with vastly lower latency. I was able to reduce the delay in PD audio settings from 50ms to 15ms.

To do this, start task manager (start->run->taskmgr or ctrl-alt-del) go to the processes tab. The process for PD-Exteded is wish85.exe. Right click on this process and choose priority and change to "realtime". This change must be made each time you restart PD.

Thanks for the suggestion. I download 0.43.4 today (12/16/12) and it loads up no problem!

Thanks for the info everyone. I wanted to check out the beta because I was interested in checking out the new GUI.

Hi Tim,

There are plenty of people here who would be willing to try to reproduce your problem. But it will involve you sharing your patch.

Based on your symptoms, it sounds like a possible latency issue. If your latency in audio settings is set too low and PD gets busy doing other things, like disk operations, popping and cracking can occur. So, I would suggest trying a much higher latency setting to see if that smooths things out. And if so, work back down from there.

It would probably we worthwhile monitoring your cpu usage while your troubleshooting this issue as well.

Hello, I was able to get the thing moving. The key for me was checking the box next to the BPM which i guess is the start/stop.

However, I'm getting no audio and this console error:

error: throw~ Bus0: no matching catch
... you might be able to track this down from the Find menu.

I get the same error on other busses as well.

I'm on a PC running 0.42.5-extended.

Hello Gubbins,

As a noob myself, here are some of the resources I found that I like:

This is THE book that explains all the examples provided with the pure data installation.
http://www.crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques/latest/book-html/node5.html

I also really like Dr. Hernandez's PD video series.

Those two resources in addtion to this forum will help you build a foundation.

Does pd have the capability of outputing to multiple audio outputs simultaneously?

I can imagine implementing this with two separate instances of PD communicating via IP or MIDI.

In the attached ZIP you will find a version of shaper with the ~>, ~<, and ~== issues resolved.

And second, a version of wobbly-bass that implements shaper as an abstraction.

Extract both files into your PD folder, open wobbly-bass, enable compute audio and hit the toggle in the upper left hand corner to turn on/off.

Thanks to the original authors!

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/Wobbly-bassANDshaper.zip

I've attached my take on the step sequencer. Data is stored and played back from an array. I think this is more efficient, and also serves to make saving/loading sequences trivial.

I you disable the bang that recieves symbol "go" in drumguts, and open this patch along side yours, this patch will take over for instrument/track 1 in the sequencer.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/stepSequencer_v0.1.pd

In digging deeper and attempting to implement the step sequencer I made, I discovered some issues with the controls in the drum sequencer.

The send symbols are incorrect on row 1 and row 2 after b24. In row 1 there is a typo in the send symbol and for the remainder of the row, the numbers are off by one.

Hi Tim,

First, I'm using pd 0.42.5-extended on a Windows system.

I discovered that your drum sequencer and possibly other sections of the patch are not working due to problems in "pd effectsunit" referenced by drumguts

In effectsunit:
First thing I noticed was that there were numerous [spigot~] objects. Evidently [spigot~] does not exist in the windows version, but I did find this thread with an abstraction that works: http://puredata.hurleur.com/sujet-1181-spigot

After adding that abstraction to my system, the drum sequencer is working properly. I observed however that the system wigs out if the bpm is set to 0 (the default), so you may want to set some non-zero default BPM.

The Vanilla Samples section is also working as expected.

However, I'm not able to get anything to happen with the left and right turntable sections. I can load a sample into it, but nothing happens.

Also, I'm not sure what is supposed to be going on in the area between the two turntables, but I'm getting an error in the console window:

playlist .text 150 100 \{Helvetica 10 bold\} white grey black red
... couldn't create