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Audio Fundamentals - Pd

Audio Fundamentals - Pd

A workshop talk on Pure Data and it's use in the Audio World.

Chinmay Pendharkar

May 30, 2014
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  1. Audio Fundamentals
    Pd
    Chinmay Pendharkar, Sonoport, 2013

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  2. What?
    - Pd (Pure Data) is a professional, high-
    performance programming language for
    electronic sound processing.
    - Pd is a data flow programming language

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  4. Use?
    - as a prototyping language and a sound
    engine. The table interface called the
    Reactable and the iPhone app RjDj both
    embed Pd as a sound engine
    - prototyping audio for video games by a
    number of audio designers. (For example,
    EAPd is the internal version of Pd that is used
    at Electronic Arts (EA). It has also been
    embedded into EA Spore)

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  7. Using Pd
    - Get pd-extended
    (http://puredata.info/download/pd-extended)
    - Pd programs are called 'patches'.

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  8. Patches
    - patches are developed graphically.
    Algorithmic functions are represented by
    objects, placed on a screen called canvas.
    - Objects are connected together with cords,
    and data flows from one object to another
    through this cords.
    - Each object performs a specific task, from
    very low level mathematic operations to
    complex audio or video functions.

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  9. Object Types
    - built-in Pd objects;
    Object, Message, Symbol, Number,...
    - abstractions, that is, reusable patches
    created in Pd itself;
    - externals, i.e. objects developed in another
    programming language.

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  10. Explore
    Under the Help menu in Pd-extended, open the
    Pd Help Browser..., click on the first item in the
    list, Manuals, then click on + Start Here.
    Open the first example patch, +start-here.pd,
    and follow the three steps listed there.....

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