[PD] HRTF

Chuckk Hubbard badmuthahubbard at gmail.com
Tue Mar 27 20:57:32 CEST 2007


I believe Csound is under LGPL, and if I understand correctly the main
difference is that people who use parts of it in commercial
applications are not required to keep their source open.
Someone else will know better, but to my understanding that makes
Csound more open than Pd.

-Chuckk

On 3/28/07, padawan12 <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> I'd love to hear work that comes out of a combination of
> Csound and Pd I think both are great, just different.
>
>
> Something I feel very strongly about though, are there
> still 'licensing issues' with Csound or has it shaken off
> all it's encumberances and become a totally free OS
> codebase?
>
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:23:29 -0400
> "Chuckk Hubbard" <badmuthahubbard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 3/27/07, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
> > > Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> > > > Pd people continue to ignore Csound, and Csound people continue to
> > > > ignore Pd, despite the great power of combining them.  I can't help
> > > > feeling like this is a symptom of being more interested in some
> > > > intellectual problem than in using all of the available tools to make
> > > > music.  Not seeing the forest for the trees, in a way.
> > >
> > > this is somewhat true, but ignores the fact that Pd is well established
> > > _outside_ the computer music community too.
> > >
> > > you cannot expect dsp-engineers developping the latest-and-greatest
> > > binaural rendering system to get into csound.
> > > (but they do use Pd)
> >
> > Fair enough.  Csound is indeed audiocentric, as am I.  I just know
> > Csound has already implemented HRTF, and exists as a PD object, which
> > I thought the poster wanted.  If his interest is in pulling an
> > abstraction apart to see how it works, then Csound probably isn't the
> > easiest way.
> > As far as computer music, it's true that I come across few people who
> > are active on both lists, and occasional disparaging remarks about one
> > or the other.  I guess the best thing for me to do in that case is to
> > try to show some of the great things that can come from the
> > combination, rather than complaining about negativity.
> >
> >
> > -Chuckk
> >
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