[PD] Pd sounds better than Max?

[beau]

Come on guys, I thought it was the artist not the tool, that was
responsible for making amazing sounds. Maybe since PD is free so more
artists get a chance to use it?

When will they come up with the PD to CSound python conversion script?


On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Chuckk Hubbard
<badmuthahubbard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 3:19 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
> >
> >  On Mar 8, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Martin Peach wrote:
> >
> >  > Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> >  >> It would be very nice to have a "cleansound" library of dsp
> >  >> objects,  perhaps ported from Csound.
> >  >
> >  > You can already use [csoundapi~], which comes with most csound
> >  > varieties, to access anything in csound from pd.
> >
> >
> >  Right, but doesn't that mean you write your instruments in Csound,
> >  then control them in Pd?  I was thinking Pd objects using the csound
> >  code.
>
> Seems obvious, doesn't it?  AFAIK it would be perfectly legal to take
> the code directly.
> I find [csoundapi~] very useful.  I tend to think, if you want Csound,
> use Csound, but as a Linux enthusiast I think it's generally better
> for an option to exist than to not exist.
> How the two programs are structured is a different question.  I don't
> know for sure, but it might take some substantial changes.  Csound
> uses vectors and scalars for audio and control signals, somewhat
> different than block size.  Then again it might translate easily, I
> dunno.
> Csound has a huge library, some of the more advanced stuff might be
> useful too, not just oscillators.
>
> -Chuckk
>
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