Thanks for your reply Ben.
I don't know whether you're familiar with Macromedia Director, but it allows you to create fairly self-contained audio visual pieces that can be distributed as windows ".exe" applications on CDROM.
These can either be launched from CD, or copied to hard disk and run with minimal hassle. I think Director uses Microsoft's DirectSound component of DirectX, although the functionality is very restricted - you can just about play multiple audio samples and vary their pitch, volume and pan, but that's about it. No synthesis or DSP (unless using proprietary plugins, no doubt).
I'm looking to move onto something more powerful, whilst retaining the ability to create and distribute something on CD that is hassle free for the end-user.
I became interested in PD, as it looks like you can build an audio engine from the ground up, but I haven't read anything to say that patches can be compiled into a form that is executable on target machines that don't have PD installed.
Maybe this paradigm only works if your using, at some level, microsoft technology - I know, for example, that you need the JVM installed to run Java applications...
Any ideas or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Richard.
-----Original Message----- From: B. Bogart [mailto:ben@ekran.org] Sent: 20 December 2003 16:29 To: Richard Skelton; pd-list@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] PD "Projector", Executables or similar
What kind of functionality are you actually looking for? I think most visual libs will cause audio glitches so you may need to have two PDs running simultaneously communicating to one and other.
There are libs such as PDP-PiDiP (2D video centric) Gem (OpenGL centric) Gridflow (2D/ matrix centric). This may not all run on all PD OSs!
Good luck.
Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Skelton" Richard.Skelton@bainesandernst.com To: pd-list@iem.at Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:20 AM Subject: [PD] PD "Projector", Executables or similar
Hi List,
I'm looking for something suitable to use in developing generative audio-visual pieces that I can distribute as CDROMs.
At the moment, I'm using Macromedia Director, which does the job, but has rather limited A-V capabilities. I'd also rather not use a piece of proprietary software.
Whilst considering other options, such as C++/DirectX, Java and
"Processing"
(www.Proce55ing.net), I stumbled across PD, and noticed the following comments by Guenter, in a recent thread :
The ultimate goal would be to be able to build your director-like GUI within pd directly. .. or implement a flashplayer etc .. :)
PD/GEM looks like an incredibly flexible and powerful A-V development environment, but am I right in thinking you need both installed and configured on a target machine in order to run a completed patch/abstraction?
If so, are there any plans to develop a PD "Projector" or equivalent, so that performances can be played on machines that don't have PD installed?
Forgive me if any of the above seems idiotic, but your comments, nevertheless, would be appreciated.
Many thanks
Richard Skelton
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