[PD] Present and future of WebPd

[Chris McCormick]

Hey Seb,

"The first is to re-implement the whole thing with custom DSP, and 
forget about native nodes."

As you know, this is how the original version of WebPd was architected 
before you re-built it.

When I handed WebPd over to you, one feature that was important to me 
was to have WebPd work as a system where you could take an existing Pd 
patch and be pretty sure it would sound and work the same or similar 
when you ran it on WebPd in so far as the objects that the user used 
were supported. That is why I attempted to have test patches to check 
that the output from Pd was the same as WebPd. I understood that would 
incur a performance penalty, but actually several Pd patches ran ok in 
that initial version so performance was "acceptable" to me at the time 
for my use-cases.

It seems like that is not a goal you share with WebPd, rather you are 
making something "Pd-like". The phrase "Pure Data runtime" is probably a 
bit misleading for users in that context, given that you said you don't 
want to support objects like "cos~" out of the box and that the audio 
output from WebPd is different from Pd (because of using native 
oscillators etc.).

Obviously you have put much more work into this project and taken it 
further than I ever could have. I am glad to see it live on with 
somebody who codes as energetically as you, so thank you. I don't have 
any right to dictate what you do with the project, rather I only hope to 
persuade you that faithfulness to Pd's output is probably a feature that 
users will appreciate a lot.

Cheers,

Chris.

On 08/09/15 05:33, s p wrote:
> Aaah got it ... damn facebook. So as Bastiaan said that's the real link
> : http://funktion.fm/#post/present-and-future-of-webpd
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Bastiaan van den Berg <buzz at spacedout.nl
> <mailto:buzz at spacedout.nl>> wrote:
>
>     Exactly the same here
>
>     On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Joe White <white.joe4 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:white.joe4 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         yeah I had the same issue
>
>         The link takes me through facebook and then there isn't actually
>         any content (aside from a facebook share button :D )
>
>         On 7 September 2015 at 15:36, s p <sebpiq at gmail.com
>         <mailto:sebpiq at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             didn't get that Bastiaan ... is there something wrong with
>             the link?
>
>             On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Bastiaan van den Berg
>             <buzz at spacedout.nl <mailto:buzz at spacedout.nl>> wrote:
>
>                 Real link without facederp tracking;
>                 http://funktion.fm/#post/present-and-future-of-webpd
>
>                 (actually, there is 0 text on page?)
>
>                 On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 4:14 PM, s p <sebpiq at gmail.com
>                 <mailto:sebpiq at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                     Hello Pd list! After receiving many questions, I
>                     decided to write a little post to explain about the
>                     present and future of WebPd :
>                     http://funktion.fm/#post/present-and-future-of-webpd
>                     <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffunktion.fm%2F%23post%2Fpresent-and-future-of-webpd&h=rAQFTSiybAQFx2xobk2DeC2J2wqOfgDUiomA9I41n42NLGQ&enc=AZOXG_i02KfoVIV6XG9vq5xhJdPuL2Mq6Q1YRPu5cy-1rbI4CdJXsXrsbWSuQQe-iuSS2WQJGqJLfPVMvliJW3mh1hlKx1hxSxglu-2i5tPs9l71GFYkQJJPTEyuAvSRJgCMok4BzZSKOWjh_Ol1YFLP0ivhQjxRYm0F3yYH0DNh_Q&s=1>
>
>                     Feel free to comment!
>
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