EKK:LoFi Sounds in HiFi Spaces/Making connection/NetPd

About

netpd is a CRNMME (Collaborative Realtime Networked Music Making Environment) built in Pure Data. It allows many users to have a realtime jam sessions with each other, connected over the net. Users might contribute their own netpd-ized patches a.k.a. instruments or use pre-existing ones. The set of patches, as well as the state of each is synchronized between clients in order to provide identical experience for every connected user.

From a technical perspective the whole netpd framework pursues two goals:

   - Make sure that every client has the same set of patches loaded at any
   given time.
   - Make sure that any instance of a certain patch/instrument is state-
   synchronized with other client's instances.

netpd was designed with music in mind, but it might serve well also other purposes, where realtime state synchronization is a requirement. (quote from netpd.org)

Subjective Impressions

First we had some trouble making the connection work. This was due to the use of some out-dated version of PD, but in the end it worked out nicely with PD extended 0.43.4