[PD] Pd vs. MAX

[Olaf Matthes]

"J. Scott Hildebrand" schrieb:
>      i've read a lot about the various incarnations of MAX including jMAX,
> MAX/MSP, Pd, and all the old stuff like MAX/Opcode, MAX/FTS, Patcher, ISPW
> stuff, etc.
> 
>      have any of you tried several different things and have any useful
> comparison info? how are the expansions in jMAX and MAX/MSP comparable to
> the expansions in Pd like GEM and GriPD? 

There are severals pros and cons to all of them.

- jMax seems to have nearly no user base, on the mailing list only seem
to be developers and people with compile problems
- Max/MSP is easy to use and has very good documentation, runs stable
- Pd provides nearly the same functionallity as Max (regarding what you
can do with your audio signals) but to achieve the same results your
patches look uglier and some 'missing' objects (mostly GUI ones) make
some things more difficult to code / use

So from the user-only standpoint I would prefer Max. The very good
documentation (several hundred pages manual) make getting started quite
easy.