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PD on a Pi

This is an artist resource for those who wish to use a Raspberry Pi in their practice
Together with the program Pure Data the Pi can be turned into may tools.

Here you will find clear and concise instructions on setting up a pi , installing pure data , and how to use it in various ways that would be helpful to an artist.
The Pi can be used as a standalone video or audio player, be turned into a programable time-lapse camera, be used in music production to create guitar peddles, synthesiers or sequencers. Alternatively it can be used a sensor station and used to data logg, or perhaps used to control motors and switches.

This guide will teach you how to use the Pi as a standalone, battery operated unit, enabling you to leave it places doing something that a computer does.

Pi Set Up

The long list of instructions here, when followed in order will result in a raspberry pi running the lastest version of raspbian, that …

Pure Data Set Up

Installing Pure Data ….. and other stuff open a terminal and type these in one at a time, these will update software, …

VNC

Turning on VLC In the terminal window type sudo raspi-config and this brings up the raspberry pi configuartion pages. choose number 3 …

attach a soundcard

raspberry pi’s only have a sound out. If you want  to take an audio input in you need to attach a soundcard. …

midi in and midi out

heres a pd patch that’ll help you work out automatic midi assignments midiinout_withalsa.pd so we don’t have to manually connect all the …

back-up your pi

attach a sd card reader, with a blank sd card (the same size as the card in the pi) to the pi …

auto-start a program on boot

open a text document. save it , onto the desktop as startup.sh then open terminal and type in (really important this) sudo chmod …

sensors and arduino’s

Getting stuff in like light sensors, pressure sensors and switches, and getting stuff out like LEDS and motors is a fairly easy …

Paul Streach

here is an example of controlling a large pd external. Paul streach is a sound tool that can streach out a sound …

recording a sound

with a sound card attached we can turn our pi into a cheap digital audio recorder, something like a zoom, if we …