Hi guys!

I'm running Pd-extended 0.40.3 on an Intel Mac with Tiger and since a couple of days, whenever I start Pd, a second app icon called simply "pd" keeps popping up on my dock and stays there until I quit Pd. It's not a major problem in any way but it's still irritating. Any ideas/solutions on how to get rid of it?

Hi guys!
I've been running the "old" version of Pd-extended (38.something) on an Intel Macbook for about two months now and recently switched to the new version (39.3). But as you may have guessed from the title, there's a huge problem now I didn't have with the older version: I'm getting glitches in my audio output, ranging from clicks to longer "buzzy" sounds, whenever I set my Creative Xmod external soundcard as the output device, the Macbook's internal output works normal.
And no, it's not a CPU problem, since I was smart enough to download the Intel version of Pd-extended and I didn't have this problem with the old version which was ppc only if I recall correctly. Also, I'm getting those glitches even with the simplest [osc] to [dac~] patches.

This is starting to drive me insane. Any help would be kindly appreciated.

Nah, it's not, because it only a started doing that a while ago. Before it was normal, like any other app.

Hmm... no solutions on this, it seems. Maybe a complete reinstall (deleting old prefs and everything) would fix it but I'm not up for that since it's so customised I don't want to go through the trouble of doing it all over again.

No. One is called "Pd-extended" and has the Pd "logo" as its icon (this is also what I use to start Pd in the first place), the other is called simply "pd" and has the default OS X icon for apps. So it's a different thing. Also, it doesn't have the little black arrow beneath it in the dock to indicate it's running, but it is. Also, I can't quit it regularly, and when I force-quit it, Pd crashes.

I know Essl's patches, and I think the reason why it's not working for you is that all of his patches are control objects (or abstractions, if you will), which means they just output messages (like bangs or numbers) in certain ways and it's up to you to convert these into sound, so in other words, they're just there for generatively controlling synths you made yourself.
Hope this helps.

OK, I fixed it myself. All I had to do was turn off "defeat real-time scheduling" and start Pd with the -rt flag.