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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
PureData Pd -- a real-time {{tag|music}} and multimedia environment. | PureData Pd -- a real-time {{tag|music}} and multimedia environment. | ||
PureData (aka Pd) is a visual programming environment for music and video DSP written largely by Miller Puckette. | |||
It is an evolution on traditional MusicN type computer synthesis and composition tools but improves on these by offering | |||
an easy and quick to use graphical frontend. In PureData "atoms" are the basic DSP building blocks which are connected | |||
together using signal links. Signals may be blocks of audio, video frames or control commands such as "bangs" or simply | |||
regular data types like floats, ints, lists etc. | |||
PureData is Open Source and highly extensible, and as such Millers initial "core" functions are now quite dwarfed by | |||
community contributions to the pool of "externals". These include synthesis/analysis tools, GUI components | |||
like meters, sliders and dials and API interfaces to system resources, HID devices and networking. | |||
PureData is popular amongst VJs, animators, sound designers and musicians for its flexibility and artistic scope. | |||