[PD] Segmented patch chords?

[Arie van Schutterhoef]

>first, jMax is dead because IRCAM killed it. It wasn't dead enough so they
>killed it again.

>It looks as if it was created to compete with Pd and
>didn't quite succeed at it.
-I don't th§ink that's the real reason why it was created.
 It was intended to be a platform independent foluw-up
 to the Max/FTS that ran on the Next machine with the
 DSP-boards. After Next stopped making hte Cube in 1993/94
 IRCAM decided not to be stuck on one platform.
 Also because general CPU's became more capable of doing
 the kind of number-crunching that were normally
 associated with DSP, they revamped FTS and tried to
 do all te client stuff with a java gui.
 During the period of 1998 to approx. 2001 it
 was used for internal performances (so the IRCAM-people say...)
 and productions (so the IRCAM-people say...), strangely
 enough all their technical performance manuals
 all refer to Max/MSP. like in Jonathan Harvey's String Quartet N ° 4
 with live electronics:
http://www.ircam.fr/fileadmin/sites/WWW_Ircam/fichiers/Cahiers_exploitation/Harv
ey-SQ4_en.pdf
 As far as the architecture of jMax itself, I quite like the idea
 of aclient/server in the way it was implemented. But the notion
 of need a separate machine to run the gui, is ridiculous.

AvS

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