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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Let me introduce myself and tell you why I am
excited about Pd.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lately I have been interested in computer music and
my home studio. I have been reading "The Computer Music Tutorial" by
Curtis Roads. So I was very excited to learn about Pd through Jim Aikin's
article in April's Electronic Musician. Since I got it downloaded and up
and running I have been enjoying it. I have a BS degree in CS and most of
my experience has been internet and Windows programming. Also
I worked doing LabView programming, which is a graphical programming
environment used for testing, measurement etc. developed and sold by National
Instruments. I am running Pd on a Windows XP machine. I hope to
have a Linux machine going in the near future. I live in Northern
California. My primary instrument is guitar.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Of course I have lots of questions. Here are
a few of my first questions:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. Besides Dr. Miller Puckette who else is
developing Pd? Are his graduate students involved? Some of the
people on this board? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. Does anyone mind, including Dr. Puckette,
if someone else modifies Pd and distributes the modified version?
Are there popular modified versions? Does Dr. Puckette ever check out
modifications for inclusion into his software?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3. How come I can't access <A
href="http://www.pure-data.org/">http://www.pure-data.org/</A> Are these
pages down? Any recomendations for other good links?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For whatever reasons my programming skills have
become a bit rusty. I see Pd as a good opportunity to get my feet wet
again and have some fun doing it. Even make some art using
my programming skills! The C source for Pd I have looked at so
far seems very clean and well written. As do some of the examples written
in Pd.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for any help and I look foward to
participating on this board.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bret Parsons</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>