hi all, (sorry for cross-posting) i'd like to announce the first release of pnpd, that's actually usable for audio synthesis. as i was able to use it in a concert last week, i consider it as reasonably stable, however, it's still in an early stage of development. pnpd is a new computer music system. it's based on a dataflow syntax, that is closely related to pd or max/msp, although it introduces some new concepts. at the moment, it doesn't contain a graphic user interface, but a text-based patcher language. it can be controlled via osc and support audio i/o via portaudio, the dsp backend is highly optimized for performance, especially for cpus supporting sse instructions. at the moment, it's not documented very well, however, there are a few test patches to describe the patcher language. the basic procedure is writing a patcher file, compiling it into the xml file for pnpd an loading that into the command line interpreter. it's still alpha software, but it's important that it's getting used to find bugs/problems. website: https://tim.klingt.org/pnpd mailinglist: https://tim.klingt.org/pnpd/community/pnpd-dev-list tarball: https://tim.klingt.org/pnpd/download/releases/pnpd-0.00.2.tar.bz2 atm, it's only tested under linux, but it shouldn't be hard, to port it to windos or osx. cheers ... tim -- tim(a)klingt.org ICQ: 96771783 http://www.mokabar.tk You can play a shoestring if you're sincere John Coltrane