Hi all, my name is Ian. I use to do a fair amount of work in Max/MSP and, after a few years hiatus, I have decided to get back into it. This time though, I am planning on sticking with open-source. So, I've been digging into PD, and I have a few questions right off that I hope you can help me with.

1. The number box seems to accept and display floats, but doesn't seem to act as a slider input for them. How does one typically input a range 0. to 1. in PD?
2. Before I go re-creating a bunch of oscillators, is there a standard distribution of oscillator objects or abstractions? Specifically, I am looking for something analogous to MSP's tri~ and trapezoid~ and band limited / anti-aliased versions of the standard saw, square, sin waves.
3. What does it mean when I get the error "can not create object"? I've received this a few times on what I thought were objects included in PD extended.
4. What do you use for an oscilloscope?

Thank you for your time. I'm really having fun getting back into this sort of thing.

Ian

Thanks so much! That's a great help.