Thanks all.
I got all TLDR with the compile instructions. I just ran:
$ cd path/to/pd (except where I really downloaded it)
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make

Read all the way through and followed along, everything but JACK worked, then got everything but some realtime scheduling to work on a second attempt.
Just following the frickin' directions.

Thanks guys, esp. Liam!

So here's the error message I get on $ make. Nothing at all exotic about the install (Lubuntu, 16.04). Jack installed, but currently just using pulseaudio.

fatal error: alsa/asoundlib.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
Makefile:709: recipe for target 'portaudio/src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.lo' failed
make[2]: *** [portaudio/src/hostapi/alsa/pa_linux_alsa.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/greg/pd-0.48-0/portaudio'
Makefile:496: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/greg/pd-0.48-0'
Makefile:420: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Thanks Liam, but it's deeper than that.

I just downloaded the Vanilla 0.48 source.
The numbers "48" do not appear once in the INSTALL.txt. The numbers "47" appear 3 times.

Is there something I'm missing here?

*more importantly, it's downloading the 0.46 versions of all packages. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

Hi everyone, and thanks for all the great resources scattered on the web for learning Pd. It's helped me make things I like, and made me a better programmer.

I've tried unsuccessfully to install a current version of pd-vanilla several times over the last couple years. I end up w pd-extended, or now, pd-l2ork. I'd like to investigate Deken and get more familiar with pd itself, so I'd like to give vanilla a go.

The problem starts with the default Ubuntu repositories. They have 0.46.7-3. They have for awhile. Deken was first included in pd 0.47, so I can't use it

So, at the puredata.info downloads page, I click the link to the Debian packages.

Moving down to the puredata_0.48.0-1_all amd 64 .deb file, I download it, and open it in Ubuntu's package installer. Watching the virtual terminal in Package Install, as well as from checking the help page within the new pd install, tells me I'm still installing 0.46.7-3.

What's going on, and what's next?

Hi everyone,
I simply want to trigger a polyphonic instrument with a fixed envelope.
I understand subpatches/abstractions and have used them successfully (for monophonic instruments), but I cannot wrap my brain around poly, pack, route, and unpack.
Furthermore, trying to access pack or unpack's help page is consistently crashing pd.

On top of that, all the examples I'm finding rely on a midi controller with pitch and velocity. I don't have one/want to use one.

yowsa, that's two great examples. thanks folks.

The ccrma build apparently leaves these out. :-/
Thanks for your help and the link.
Did you used to hang out on irc for lgpt ?

@PonZo said:

See /pd/...../stuff/synth/1.polysynth.pd

Seriously, thank you.
I hope I didn't sound snarky above.

Where is this /pd/...stuff/synth/1.polysynth.pd?

Thanks.
Jesus, that's really the simplest way to do it?

I'm starting w/ a plain old QWERTY keyboard for now -- I just want to see what I can do without controllers for now.
I'd like to get polyphony working with the plain old unsorted 0-127 values first, then I was going to work from there to more intuitve approaches.
I just want to make a single [osc~] synth in a subpatch, with an Attack/Release envelope, and control a couple instances of it.