Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
The people who might use my patch are other composers interested in alternate tuning systems. For the most part they are not computer people. "Cryptic-looking" isn't a bust in the slightest, it is how it comes across, when I send an email to a composer to tell him how to use my patch, and I have to devote several paragraphs to telling him how to first get a couple of external libraries loaded and make sure it selected the right sound device. Again, I would love to tell him "tough, learn something about computers if you want to use it," but that would impede my possible future lessons with him.
At the institute where I work, some people have no idea how to use pd. So, they just start a START-ME.bat file and control the application (=pd patch) via OSC using an interface they are used to. To instal pd on a new machine, I use a self-extracting .exe file, which extracts pd, all required externals and patches to C:\pd - it's a dirty method but everything is predefined this way and the package works on almost every windows machine.
You can even start pd with the -nogui option, so your user won't even know it's there (beside the DOS-window poping out...).
br, Piotr