<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matju@artengine.ca" target="_blank">matju@artengine.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:<br>
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--- On Sun, 6/19/11, Mathieu Bouchard <<a href="mailto:matju@artengine.ca" target="_blank">matju@artengine.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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What's a « technological parody » ?<br>
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It's where you take something like a modern digital computer and do DSP by using an interface modeled after 30 year-old analog audio equipment.<br>
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Therefore Pd is a technological parody ?<br></blockquote><div><br>Seems like this fits into the discussion of CV's in digital synthesizers, however briefly on-topic it was :)<br><br>Pd is *not* a technological parody by being able to do everything that a 30-year-old analog interface could do, because it does it better. Hardware for running Pd to accomplish the same tasks can be smaller and less specialized. There's lower noise, less distortion--things that would take a team of engineers several years to build with hardware would be programmable in Pd in less time.<br>
<br>A technological parody ought to be defined by:<br>1. usage of high-tech hardware to fulfill a low-tech purpose<br>2. an unwarranted degree of specialization or wasteful usage of hardware size/power<br><br>e.g. a wind controller shaped exactly like a clarinet, running off a DSP board, and all it does is sound exactly like a clarinet. Why don't I just mic a clarinet?<br>
Anybody else got one?<br><br>Chuck<br></div></div>