[PD-announce] interface using PD as sound engine

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hi all !,

We have created an prototype application that it is composed by an interface that 
comunicates to a sound engine constructed on PD. This is yet an early release 
release and there is much work to be done yet. however it can already be used and 
we invite you to download and test it. Suggestions, critiques and help are welcome.

It is called Shell and it can be downloaded from this website www.ixi-software.net in 
the software/download section. Please follow the download and install instructions 
available in that page.

Find detailed description and screenshots at
http://www.ixi-software.net/content/body_software_shell.html

Shell is composed by two pieces of software. An interface that communicates to a 
sound engine created using Pure Data 

The interface is connected to the sound engine allowing to control 
transformations applied to different samples by manipulating the 
shape and location of different polygons in the interface.

This means that anyone (with knowledge of PD) can change the 
sound engine for his/her own porposes. We hope that people 
will do this and we would be very happy to incorporate changes or 
different variations of the sound engine into the distribution.

The app was originally created for a sound installation and later 
evolved to the current state. I guess its not very obvious how it 
works, so if anyone doesn't understand it i could try to write a more
detailed description that the one on the application's documentation.

This app is at the moment just for Windows. We hope we will have a mac 
version soon. We have Linux in mind but this is a bit 
more complex due to the tools we have used.


Please report critics, ideas, bugs, problems ...
thanks!