VJ Heaven

Move over Windows, move over OSX. Pure Dyne is a high-performance, bootable Linux OS that has been modified for maximum Visual Performance and has been designed with Pure Data (Pd) as its central premise. Its a customization of the dyne:II core for realtime audio and video processing and is maintained by a growing community of media artists. If you are worried about installation problems on your current computer, you can just boot from a CD, USB key, or hard drive into your Mac or PC.

The allure of Pure Dyne is that it’s not just altering an OS to your needs - it’s taking your performance gigs with you without having to worry about OS problems. Pure Dyne comes optimized with software such as Jack, SuperCollider, Csound, Fluxus and of course Pure Data. Pure:dyne is entirely optimised for Pd, an open-source alternative to Max/MSP, and comes with an overwhelming collection of externals: PDP, PiDiP, Gem, GridFlow, RRadical, PixelTango. - all of which normally involve extensive installion time.

Pure Dyne is a pre-built installation OS. It’s like having a backup if your machine dies. But if you do want to install it as a bootable OS, then there is that option too. So, if you’re ready for some new visuals, its all here. Flash, now with the new Flash Player for Linux, can be integrated seamlessly into Pure Dyne. A custom Pd+Flash could be vj heaven for live visualist work. It all makes for a nice link between commercial releases and free software. Its a visually-tuned, custom performance and installation environment where many possibilities for creation are available.

Pure Dyne can be found at puredyne.goto10.org