I meant the latest usable (which I have installed) builds of
pd-extended, and the last version of
pd-vanilla-without-documentation-about-data-strucutures-and-so-on (also
being unfair). I haven't being using pd too much these days for sound, but in the last
builds of pd-ext I didn't notice anything that was behind pd-van.
before I was using pd-van .41 because of the symbol grab feature in the
data structures (which I only know about because I requested it, it's
not documented). as this feature is now possible in the current build
of pd-ext, I notice no differences between them.ok, but this seems to be a bit subjective evaluation.
it's not scientific at all, and I haven't been following the news.
by any chance, you are not running an amd64 system? (this is getting hot
ground for me, as i am not so sure whether PdX actually does have some
x86_64 patches incorporated; but chances are low....)
my new desktop is a 64 d-core intel, I have windows and ubuntu there. it's
still new, so I didn't work much with it so far. in windows works well,
but I can't get ubuntu to access my quite normal home network, so I didn't
got further on that. I can do some testing, if you want (just tell me what
to do).
and you are probably also not very interested in audio-computation on
demand...
my stuff isn't the most demanding in terms of cpu. I either play in my
trio www.endphase.net (our patches aren't that heavy), or for my private
composition tools, which in these days do more information than audio
processing. I never even opened up a vst plugin in pd so far, and I'm
happy with latency of 70ms in windows for now (didn't fiddled enough in
ubuntu to try to bring it lower than that).
after all, if you don't need all the list-stuff and
multiple-dollarg-expansion ($1-$2), you might as well not notice a
difference between 0.39 and 0.40....
I can't even be sure of what you're talking about, so probably I don't (or
maybe I would, if I was aware of it?). Were they properly documented
somewhere?
The one detail that made me stick to pd-van-.41 for a while was the
"symbol" option in [struct] and the [set -symbol] feature (because of an
important patch for me) - which I only know about because I asked for it
(it's not documented, I think). Besides that I don't know exactly what are
the benefits.
But in a general remark I would say that pd-ext is making a very big step
in improving the quality of the interface and its integration in the
system (I speak mainly of windows) - as also with the developper
community. That's an important step for users that aren't willing to make
a big effort to stick with pd or have better things to do with their time
[please don't bring up the "if they would really want it..." argument].
pd-van should check that out and try to catch up at some time as well (or
just fuse into pd-ext, if there are no differences in quality - I'm not
qualified to judge that).
João