Resources

Getting Help

• puredata mailing lists: http://puredata.info/community/lists
• puredata forums: http://puredata.hurleur.com/
• IRC chatroom: irc://irc.freenode.net/dataflow
• itp-sound list, email Dan Palkowski
• Cycling '74 lists: http://www.cycling74.com/special/mailing_lists
• Cycling '74 forum: http://www.cycling74.com/forums/

Websites

• Pure Data Tutorials by Dr. Hdez, video walk-thru tutorials
• Obiwannabe: Audio, code and tutorials on synthesis
• Pd Repertory Project
• Pure Data Exhibition

Books

• bang | pure data, Wolke Verlag
• Designing Sound: Procedural audio for games and film, by Andy Farnell
• FLOSS Manuals: Pure Data
• The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music, by Miller Puckette
• Programming Electronic Music in Pd, by Johannes Kreidler
• Making Musical Apps Using the libpd Sound Engine, by Peter Brinkmann

Example Projects

• PureData.org Exhibition
• Example Project: Multitouch Pinball, code walkthru, Instructable

Articles

• A brief history of MAX, by François Déchelle
• Puckette, M. 1991. "Combining Event and Signal Processing in the MAX Graphical Programming Environment." Computer Music Journal 15(3): 68-77. http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Publications/cmj91-max.ps
• Puckette, M. 1996. "Pure Data: another integrated computer music environment." Proceedings, Second Intercollege Computer Music Concerts, Tachikawa, Japan, pp. 37-41. http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Publications/icmf96.ps
• Puckette, M. 1996. "Pure Data." Proceedings, International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association, pp. 269-272. http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Publications/icmc96.ps
• Puckette, M. 1997. "Pure Data: recent progress." Proceedings, Third Intercollege Computer Music Festival, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 1-4. http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Publications/icmf97.ps
• Puckette, M. *Max at Seventeen*, Computer Music Journal, Volume 26, Number 4, 1 December 2002, pp. 31-43(13) http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Publications/dartmouth-reprint.pdf
• Puckette, M. 2002. "Using Pd as a score language." Proceedings, ICMC, pp. 184-187 http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Publications/icmc02.pdf