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255); ">It’s been a busy summer--<span
class="Apple-converted-space"></span><a title="Pd-L2Ork software
page" href="http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/?page_id=56"
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(144, 32, 82);
text-decoration: none; ">pd-l2ork</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has been making big
strides towards becoming a robust full-fledged digital signal
processing tool. The latest version includes revolutionary
preset_hub and preset_node system that supports a wide range of
data types as well as abstractions. It is essentially Pd’s
counterpart to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
title="Cycling 74 Max DSP Environment Pattrstorage
Documentation"
href="http://cycling74.com/docs/max5/refpages/max-ref/pattrstorage.html"
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(144, 32, 82);
text-decoration: none; ">Max’s pattrstorage</a>. We’ve also
squashed dozens of bugs and clean-ups making pd-l2ork better than
ever.</p>
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85); font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica,
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255); ">Perhaps the most exciting improvement involves Pd-L2Ork’s<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="Announcing
Pd-L2Ork K12 Module"
href="http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/?p=1964" style="margin:
0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(144, 32, 82); text-decoration:
none; ">K12 module</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>geared
towards elementary, middle, and high school students. The new
version has over 40 objects/abstractions, allowing students to
seamlessly interact with both Wiimotes and<span
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href="http://www.musicsensorsemotion.com/2010/03/08/sarcduino/"
style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(144, 32, 82);
text-decoration: none; ">SARC iteration of Arduino Uno devices
(a.k.a. Sarcduino firmware)</a>. And this very version together
with 15 L2Ork stations is being used this week by more than 30
middle-school students as part of the inaugural<span
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Institute for Creativity, Arts & Technology"
href="http://www.icat.vt.edu/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;
color: rgb(144, 32, 82); text-decoration: none; ">ICAT K12 Maker
Workshop</a> taking place in Virginia Tech Institute for
Creativity, Arts & Technology’s Studio 1.
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href="http://l2ork.music.vt.edu/main/?page_id=56" style="margin:
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); ">L2Ork’s software page</a><span style="color: rgb(85, 85,
85); font-family: Verdana, 'BitStream vera Sans', Helvetica,
sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant:
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latest version of pd-l2ork is all about ;-)</span><span
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A
Composition, Music Technology
Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
Director, L2Ork Linux Laptop Orchestra
Head, ICAT IMPACT Studio
Virginia Tech
Department of Music
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0240
(540) 231-6139
(540) 231-5034 (fax)
disis.music.vt.edu
l2ork.music.vt.edu
ico.bukvic.net</pre>
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