hi all,

I'm looking to get into PD, but am seriously confused by the mismatching releases abounding on the net.  The PD extended is a 0.38 release, so far as I can tell, and some of the patches I want to explore require 0.39, so this is ruled out even if it seems the easiest solution for starting out.  I thought it might be easy to just download the externals package but that doesn't seem to have been updated since 2003, which just screams deprecated. 

Is there a tutorial or quick guide somewhere that'll point me in the direction of setting up a relatively complete (with most widely available extras/externals) PD install that'll play happy with my FC5/CCRMA machine?  Am I better off waiting for the new extended release recently announced?  Any thoughts?

regards

Michael John Noble