Hi all,

I don't know if you are familiar with Pd-L2Ork, but basically it is a distribution of Pd-extended that contains many improvements. Some of them I list below:

tidy up : better algorithm then pd's original one IMO, and it also has a shortcut by default which is super handy
resizing iemgui : simply click and drag from the lower right corner
resizing graph-on-parent : same as above
to front, to back : change object order! No more cut and paste (and thus losing all connections) to bring something to the front
infinite undos : this one is just wonderful...
paste from source code : this allows user to send code as text to others (just like Max users do on their forum)

Now my question is: are any of these features being considered to be implemented in the next release of Pd-extended? They certainly look amazing.

I still didn't try it on my computer though because of their dependencies (they need a package which will delete my JACK version and install a new one, and I am not very happy about this at all since finally everything is working well with my notebook).

Take care,
Gilberto

Hi all, I just found this older post of mine. I just want to add that I installed Pd-l2Ork on my computer and I couldn't be happier with it. I had to exchange my JACK version, but that was pretty straight forward to do, and in order to have it installed side by side with pd-extended I had to force its installation (again, it was not such a painful process). As most people here in this forum realized, I am a big fan of this l2Ork distribution, so I can't recommend it enough.

Cheers,
Gilberto

Hello all,

I just found out about the most wonderful feature of Pd-l2Ork yet and which completely beats Max when dealing with patch cords (!): when connecting several objects to a single one (such as several [osc~] to a single [dac~]), all you have to do is select all oscillators and connect a single one of them only in order to get all connections! But wait, it still gets better!, the same is true for connecting a single object into several (such as a single [adc~] to several [*~]): simply select all multiple objects in which the first should get connected, and connect the first one to any of them.

I really can't stress enough how much I love this distro, I believe the work of Ico and those devs is simply outstanding!

Cheers,
Gilberto

I'm terribly sorry for necro-bumping this thread but...
Is there any way to compile pd-l2Ork for windows perchance? (without using a wrapper such as cygwin)
I'm locked to windows because of intel and my bios manufacturer. (intel won't fix their i3 integrated gpu linux drivers and a bios update was pushed by phoenix that causes grub to freak out and crash)

Unfortunately I don't think it's possible to do so yet. This is from the list from a couple of days ago, answered by one of the developers of Pd-l2Ork:

what is the status of porting it to Windows and Mac Os? there was some talk here that this was in progress, I'd love to know more about it.

I've started working on building it on OSX, but it's slow going.

Cheers,
Gilberto