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HOWTO
write an External
for puredata

johannes m zmölnig

institute of electronic music and acoustics, graz

Abstract:

pd is a graphical realtime-computermusicsystem that follows the tradition of IRCAMs ISPW-max.

Although plenty of functions are built into pd, it is sometimes a pain or simply impossible to create a patch with a certain functionality out of the given primitives and combinations of these.

Therefore, pd can be extended with selfmade primitives (``objects'') that are written in complex programming-languages, like C/C++.

This document aims to explain, how to write such primitives in C, the popular language that was used to realize pd.

you can download this HOWTO as pdf(English) from pd-externals-HOWTO.pdf and as pdf(German) from pd-externals-HOWTO_de.pdf





IOhannes m zmoelnig 2001-09-13