Just getting into PD. I teach computer science in the middle school and do several related things, like music programming with Sonic Pi, art, etc. It looks like PD is what I need to stitch all these disparate things together.

So I'm using vanilla PD. Should I get the extended version, and which is the best one for Windows 10?

TIA,
Bob Irving
Porter-Gaud School
Charleston, SC

@CrouchingPython Purr Data!
https://github.com/agraef/purr-data/releases

@EEight Thanks! Got it dl'ed and ready to rock.

So a question on this.... I'm using PurrData and following Cheetomoskeeto's series of tutorials on YT. I'm on #7, Making It Work, which is about making a simple sequencer. I think I've done everything right, but not getting any sound. Sound is working, and I have DSP turned on.
Is there some difference between PD-Extended, which the author is using in a tute recorded in 2009, and PurrData, that could be causing this problem?

Are you sure you have PD connected to a MIDI device (or softsynth)? That's not automatic, at least not on my system. In the video you mention, PD is not creating audio. He's using PD to control another program - that other program is actually making the sound.

@Load074 Derp. I remembered last night that he had set up a virtual synth on his Mac two videos before this (FM8). Doh! Wondering if there is a Win10 equivalent somewhere, and how to hook it up.... Thanks for the response!

And I've actually got a MIDI controller right here, the Arturia Minilab mkII. I've chosen it on channel 1 as input and output, but not getting any sound. Sorry to be such a noob, but it's my first time with a MIDI controller and just learning Pd....

@CrouchingPython Pd has midi output...... and you could connect an external synth and select it from the Pd "Media" "Midi Settings".
But if it is a software synth on your computer then you need to loop-back the output of Pd to the input of the software synth.
In Windows you could use loopMIDI........... http://www.tobias-erichsen.de/software.html
Open it and set up a loop (there could well be one opened straight away by loopMIDI..... then open Pd and connect to it....... and open your software synth and connect to it.........

Widows10 might still have "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth" still built in, but some say it doesn't work and Google will find you plenty of free and better ones.
The Arturia is a controller...... it outputs midi messages the same as Pd....... and still needs a synth (something to make the sounds when triggered by midi messages).....
David.

Just an easy one for now.... I'm watching YT tutorial on PureData, hearing it fine. Trying to output sound from my patch, and hearing nothing. Tested the midi and hearing notes there, so I'm wondering if audio on YT is somehow blocking the midi output? Crazy thought, but....

@CrouchingPython It might be blocking all the other audio on your computer...... although there is no mention of YouTube doing so on Google.
Maybe it is a new browser feature?
Windows does it for web communications...... https://smallbusiness.chron.com/stop-skype-lowering-volume-everything-else-74259.html ........ so....?

But I might be misreading your post.
Have you turned on audio processing for Pd?
Is it the Midi notes that you no longer hear?
David.