allow additional arguments for Pd
start WILMix-Pd without gui

and with 12 output channels
make readLong() return LONG as scalar

struct.unpack() returns a tuple, so we have to extract the first element
set fallback-timestamps for testing (LONG/INT)
simplify sleep code

move sleep-logic into subroutine;
on timeout, make _getFOO() always return a valid tuple rather than 'None'
pdsettings parser

non-functional as of now