Hello,
this is just to introduce myself. I am a core developer for the Composers Desktop Project, and have been active on some other discussion grouops for a while (jMax, Csound, music-dsp).
I am especially interested in running PD under Windows (I am actually using Windows2000, but dual booting with Windows95 and floppy booting to Linux), and perhaps contributing to development on that platform. CDP are particularly concerned to enable such powerful programs as PD to be useable by non-technical composers and musicians, so I am interested in ways of smoothing the learning curve, so to speak, and making the user interface more comfortable. The writing of tutorial documentation is also one of our special concerns.
One of my programming interests is in file formats, and Windows audio programming generally. For example, I have been working on the new Micorsoft WAVE-FORMAT-EXTENSIBLE format (native to Windows2000 and Window98 Second Edition), and on multi-channel file issues. I see that PD currently output eight channels by writing to four stereo devices; I would want to add the facility (ideally under user GUI control) to write to one eight-channel device, such as my Creamware Pulsar.
I have one immediate question - what is the CPU spec expected for running the spectral patches? I am using a Pentium II 333MHz, and have had to do a hardware reboot running one of these patches, as the GUI got completely locked - I couldn't even get at Task Manager. I would prefer the program not to run at HIGH_PRIORITY, so that the GUI is always more responsive. That is despite the fact that I, and CDP, are especially interested in spectral porcessing!
Richard Dobson