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Pure Data: Electronic Music and Sound Design – Support page
This page contains all of the supporting materials for the first volume of “Pure Data: Electronic Music and Sound Design” by Francesco Bianchi, Alessandro Cipriani and Maurizio Giri.
Virtual Sound Macros Library
This library extends Pure Data with hundreds of indispensable abstractions that are used widely in the practical chapters.
How to install:
1) Download the file VirtualSoundLibraryPd.zip and unzip it: you will get a Virtual_Sound_Library_Pd folder;
2) Open Pd, and from the Pd/Preferences (Mac) or File/Preferences (Other systems) menu, open the Path section. Click on New: a window will open in which you have to search and select the Virtual_Sound_Library_Pd folder. Once found and selected, click on Ok;
3) Restart Pd.
Support Materials for the Practical Chapters
This folder contain all of the patches shown in the book, as well as the audio files for the reverse engineering exercises and the patches for the activities found at the end of each chapter.
Listening and Analysis
Download the sounds to be used in the “Listening and Analysis” tests of the theory chapters.
Interactive Examples
These links refer to downloadable versions of the interactive examples used in the theory chapters.
Please note that with the latest OS the Interactive Examples may not work, a new version is in preparation. In the meantime you can visualize the relative videos at these pages:
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