One other thing.... If you have two PD windows open at the same time and you hit "compute audio", it will only compute audio for one of the windows (and that never seems to be the one you want!). It seems a little annoying at first because you'd think it should only compute audio for the active window. But, this becomes useful later when you start passing messages between windows. So, if you copy part of a "help" example to your project, its a good idea to close that help window before hitting "compute audio".

You can make PD messages that turn on audio, rather than relying on the pull-down menu too. There are lots of different ways of doing this, but I usually do it this way: I make two "message" boxes, one for "on" and one for "off". The On button has this written in it:

; pd dsp 1

--note the semicolon

The Off button is written like this:

; pd dsp 0

When you are in "Run Mode", just click on the On button to begin computing audio. You can switch between Run and Edit mode by hitting Ctrl-E (Command/Apple-E on Mac).

--Josh

From: "Josh Kinberg" jbkinb@hotmail.com To: MchZanes2@aol.com CC: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Subject: Re: [PD] a simple example to get me started/newbie Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 18:33:17 -0500

There is a pretty good beginner's tutorial here (you can view it online or download a PDF version):

http://pd.iem.at/pdwiki/index.php?PdTutorial

I'm new to PD as well, so I'm still playing around with the examples quite a lot. That would be my suggestion for trying to familiarize yourself with PD (or any programming language). Go over examples as much as you can, tweak them around and see what does what. Try combining examples together and see what happens. There are tons of examples in the Docs folder that come with PD, and you can always copy-paste them into your projects. Also, a great trick is to right-click (control-click on Mac) on any PD object and select "help". This will bring up another PD window with some instructions on how to use that object. If you right-click on an empty area on the PD canvas and select "help", it will bring up a new window with a glossary of PD objects.

Hope that helps some.

--Josh

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From: smoerk smoerk@gmx.de To: MchZanes2@aol.com CC: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Subject: Re: [PD] a simple example to get me started/newbie Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 00:08:36 +0100

did you check the "compute audio" checkbox?

MchZanes2@aol.com wrote:

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           Hello. I have no backround in programming, so trying to 

get past the audio test has been frustrating. I heard the test tones and the white noise in that test; I'm able to get the command prompt up (run C:pd/bin/pd.exe) as well as open up a new file from the main window. My ISP recognizes TCP/IP as a possible internet connection, so THAT appears to be turned on, though I'm "dial-up"; I keep reading and re-reading the manual and all relevant info. from other sites but nowhere can I find someone with a "simple example" to give a "wah-newbie" like me something to sink his teeth into. (If the examples in doc\2.control examples thru 5.reference are supposed to "sound", then what EXACT procedure do I need to follow to get that to happen? The same for the examples in the main manual, I get no sound generated from these examples either, though test tones work).

           Any help is appreciated. Thanks.  My  OS is WinXP.

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