Hi Pders,
I'm finishing up a Pd 0.26 release, perhaps for this weekend sometime; there is some preliminary stuff available now, and I've made some changes in the way I'm distributing things.
First, my home page is now http://lena.ucsd.edu/~msp
You can get to the software distribution from there, or you can just look at all the files: http://lena.ucsd.edu/~msp/Software
If you go there, you get pre-releases as well as "clean" ones. The documentation is in http://lena.ucsd.edu/~msp/Pd_documentation/index.htm
which you can also find via my home page, in case any of these urls changes in the future.
Meanwhile, you're welcome to grab the Pd 0.26 pre-releases which are available for linux and NT (I haven't got the IRIX version working yet.) There are big improvements over 0.25:
- better control over audio latency
- +~, etc, can take numbers directly; fewer sig~s needed
- you can switch~ audio sub-patches on and off
On another topic, I'm not even trying to run Alsa over here at the moment, so unless someone else out there is willing to try out 0.26 with Alsa I bet it won't work.
On the other hand, my cheapo PCI128 card (Guenter has one too) seems to be able to put sounds through in under 10msec using free OSS! One local audiophile here in SD has complained about PCI128's low audio quality, but as for me I can't hear anything over the sound of the refrigerator downstairs so I'm not worried. I'm about to try an SBLive (Creative's driver; proprietary hardware) and have an OPL thing too... if anyone out there would like to share experiences with these or other cards I would be happy to post the results in the HTML doc.
Miller