I'm a beginner too (and I'm french, but not at IRCAM !).

Todd, about the problems with your soundcard, you should read the "3.1. how to get and install Pd" section of the documentation, and there is a useful Pure Data FAQ page at http://www.pure-data.org/

If you want to learn how to use Pd, you should open the patches in the pd/doc directory, "pd/doc/2.control examples/01.intro.pd" first. It's like a tutorial. Each example is numbered, they all have comments, try to edit them and change some parameters, and when you have understood the patch, open the next example. If you want more info about one object, right-click on it for help. All the help windows are themselves patches explaining the objects. You can find them in the pd/doc/5.reference directory.

I hope this will help you.

Nicolas Lhommet

On Tue, 1 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] booey chewy wrote:

Hi, I have toyed with this a few times, read the documentation a few times etc. I have tried some of the comand propmts to try and figure out if anything works but none of them were found.

I don't know what this means. Do you mean you tried running pd with different command line arguments? Which are you trying to use?

My soundcard outputs tones (with glitches) when I do the test.

What computer are you using? What operating system? What sound card?

basically how do I make a basic patch on this, how do I know if it is working. Is there any website that lays it down for a beginner, other than Miller's site?

The "Pure Documentation" under the Help menu forms an excellent tutorial. I had never worked with MAX before I came to Pd and learned everything I needed from the Tutorial, the documentation, and this mailing list. Now I scare even NATO users.

(jfm3)