@mathsound said:
is actively being developed
Not really "actively" I'd say... the development pace really slowed down in the last couple of years with less releases. Pd-L2ork seems much more active. About 'multiple cord connection', Vanilla has the same and actually more "intelligent patching" options.
I check in PD Vanilla 0.55-2, and adc~ works (on my new M4 Mac),
so it's definitely a Purr Data issue (with newer Macs / OS) - maybe
as it's based on PD 0.48.
0.55 down to 0.48 is basically 7 years of development behind
So actually you did provide the solution!
yeah, I had a hunch Pd-L2ork is performing and doing better
Now I wonder why Purr Data exists alongside L2Ork, as to me they look and act the same?
well, they are similar, but they're not the same, they are independently developed and not fully compatible to each other. It happens because this is open source and people can fork and work on their own branch. This has advantages and disadvantages depending on the project. For something like Pd, where the community is relatively small, I think it's bad, as it divides the community, specially if it involves incompatibilities, which is the case with Purr/L2ork, which are not only incompatible to each other, but with Vanilla, specially that. And also quite outdated, though they are finally catching up. Seems like the last Pd-L2ork version made the jump from 0.48 to 0.55! Updating libraries like Cyclone is next in the to do list, as they have a version from 20 years ago and don't have the developments from the newer phase that is almost a decade long now.
I like to point this because I think many people don't seem to grasp the differences and caveats, and maybe they don't even mind them but it's worth noting and knowing!
Even if you finally have it synced to the latest updates in Vanilla and the external libraries they carry, there are also the incompatibilities issue that I find most problematic, as you can't run the same patches on other forks (not only Vanilla), and some external GUIs weren't ported yet and I wonder if they ever will (there aren't that many of them anyway). So full Pd-Extended compatibility is still better guaranteed with Vanilla, this is a fact.
What maybe people don't really also get is that there are things beyond Pd-Extended, and new things and new external libraries that came to be after the demise of Extended over a decade ago... with pd-l2ork/purr data you are stuck with the limited set they offer and the incompatibilities are so big that you can't even run externals made for Vanilla in them. So you're missing out on some stuff...
If you can't stand Vanilla and really like GUI enhancements you can look into PlugData, which comes with some external libraires but also allows you to install libraries in the standalone app. There's also the same issue with some GUI objects in external libraries not being ported, but there aren't that many and they do offer lots that are ported anyway.
