
Pd is not commercial software i.e., it was not developed by a corporation and is not for sale. Pd was initiated by American software engineer Miller Puckette, who previous co-developed the well known and similarly structured software Max/Msp. File:00-random-sound. PureData (Pd)is an open-source equivalent to Max/MSP.Learn how to use your software, music theory, arrangement to mixing & mastering. File:05 tutorial more objects 2.maxpat (counter) For the last thirty years we have offered artists on-site recording studios, programming services, workshops, classes and one-on-one tutorials in emerging. Learn how to make better music with free music production tutorials.“Max/MSP/Jitter comes with about 600 of these objects as the standard package extensions to the program can be written by third-party developers as Max patchers”(ibid) “Max is typically learned through acquiring a vocabulary of objects and how they function within a patcher for example, the metro object functions as a simple metronome, and the random object generates random integers.” ibid

“Max supports six basic atomic data types that can be transmitted as messages from object to object: int, float, list, symbol, bang, and signal (for MSP audio connections).” ibid When personal computers became fast enough to handle audio data in real time, Max was extended with a signal processing package called MSP.

“The basic language of Max and its sibling programs is that of a data-flow system: Max programs (named patches) are made by arranging and connecting building-blocks of objects within a patcher, or visual canvas.” (software)
