I've read in Miller Puckette's paper http://puredata.info/community/projects/convention09/puckette.pdf/at_downloa...: "As of Pd 0.42, the “-batch” flag is available in Pd to allow a single Pd process to run without audio input or output. This can be useful for writing shell-based scripts that process soundfiles through Pd patches."
This seems indeed very interesting, and opening new unexpected perspectives for pd. Is there any further documentation/discussion/example? I only found a brief description in x5.htm in the documentarion.
Thanks, Lorenzo.