[PD] [PD-announce] netpd 2.1

[John Harrison]

This is fantastic news!

I can't wait to try it the new version! Are the jams happening Thursday 
21:00 GMT as mentioned on the website?

On 03/10/2013 07:12 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> Hi all
>
> After almost a year not having announced version 2.0 of netpd, version
> 2.1 is released now. netpd 2.x is complete rewrite of the netpd that you
> may have known from several years ago.
>
> http://www.netpd.org/Download
>
>
>   
> netpd - a Collaborative Realtime Networked Music Making Environment
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> netpd allows many users to have a realtime jam sessions with each other,
> connected over the net.
> Users might contribute their own netpd-ized patches a.k.a. instruments
> or use pre-existing ones. The set of patches, as well as the state of
> each is synchronized between clients in order to provide identical
> experience for every connected user.
>
> netpd was designed with music in mind, but it might serve well also
> other purposes, where realtime state synchronization is a requirement.
>
>
> release notes
> -------------
>
> 2.1
>    * Improved reliability of finding a sync peer (breaks compatibility
>      with v2.0)
>    * Added non-blocking until [netpd-nb-until]
>    * Turning DSP off on dynamic creation is now a configurable option
>      (see chat's preferences)
>    * Prevent errors when checking for non-existing files (adds more
>      dependencies, though)
>    * Automatically load unpatch by cmdline option (useful for -nogui)
>    * Turn on/off printing of all incoming and outgoing OSC message with
>      cmdline option
>    * Turn on/off state messages for testing and debugging with cmdline
>      option
>
> 2.0
>    * Complete rewrite
>    * Messaging layer based on OSC
>    * Consequent use of namespaces
>    * Improved and more reliable state synchronization
>    * Faster patch synchronization
>    * More intelligent dependency resolving
>    * Multiple instances of the same instrument
>    * Non-blocking network layer (less audio drop-outs)
>    * Lots of bugfixes
>
>
> Have fun!
> Roman
>
>
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