[PD] PD for Audio Manipulation/Mangling

[derek holzer]

John Potter wrote:

> Anyone know if Audiomulch allows you to write your own "externals" -
> other than going the VST route.

No. AM is closed source [="black box"], and is developed as a commercial 
software [eventually], so I don't think it's part of Ross Bencina's plan 
to open it up to anonymous developers. You'd have to go the VST route.

> Any of these - PD, Max/MSP, Audiomulch support something like rewire?

This is where Linux comes in! Under Linux, you have a system called 
Jack-Audio-Connection-Kit, which routes audio signals between clients in 
the same way that ReWire does, but which is not closed and proprietary 
[thus expanding the possible applications which can work with it]. It is 
compatible with Portaudio on the Mac as well, although I haven't met 
anyone who has gotten JACK working there yet. But under Linux it is 
stable and runs like a dream!

d.


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