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A. DrymonitisDigital Electronics for MusiciansMaker Innovations Serieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0394-9_1

1. Introduction to Pure Data

Alexandros Drymonitis1  
(1)
Argyroupoli, Greece
 

Pure Data (Pd) is a visual programming language and environment for audio, visuals, and multimedia. It is open source, and it was developed by Miller Puckette during the 1990s. Pd is a very powerful and flexible programming language, still actively developed, used by professionals and hobbyists alike around the world.

Visual programming means that instead of writing code (a series of keywords and symbols that have a specific meaning in the context of a programming language), ...

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