hi there,

so, i am relatively new to pure data even though i've been playing around max for some time. i've started reading adrian moose's book "Sonic Art", which comes with an external libraries for Pd. I've tried to installed it in High Sierra, which should just work normally, through the help menu - find externals but whenever i try to do it Pd just doesn't recognise it... that being said, do you know what could be going wrong? if so, some help would be appreciated!

best,

@tomasraposo Any more info? Google finds nothing at all with "adrian moose's book "Sonic Art"".
Is it old? High Sierra was the last OSX to support 32-bit, but do you have a 64-bit Pd installed? Which version.....
etc.
Any source code available for the external library?
David.

hi @whale-av

sorry, i misspelled it. it's adrian moore's book "Sonic Art: an introduction to electroacoustic music composition". Here is the link for the external library: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/usss/ussstools

i have the 64-bit Pd installed.

thank you for your help!

i have already set the paths and runned the 'find externals' option...

@tomasraposo It looks as though it could be 64 - 32 bit incompatible after a cursory look.
I am not using OSX and someone else will get involved in your post I am sure.
Reading through the website link it suggests...... by the order of the OSX versions, that he was using Vanilla 0.47 (32-bit) for High Sierra.
There seems to be only one executable...... shape..... in the ussstools folder.
Everything else is abstractions.
If objects are not found (cannot be created) it could just be that you need to point to their path by opening Pd preferences and adding the paths from root (C:/...?) to the "usss" folders.

He mentions "falling back" to Pd-extended", which although unsupported, was the last version of Pd to work "out of the box".

You might just need to fall back to Vanilla 0.48 (32-bit) but you would still need to add the paths so that Pd finds what it needs.

I cannot find his detailed installation instructions (yet)...... but some mention of needing to run "blue" for projects....... whatever that means.
David.

@whale-av

thank you for your kind help! i'll have a look at it and try to figure it out. either way, much appreciated.