[PD] Pd sounds better than Max?

[Andy Farnell]

On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:08:45 -0500
marius schebella <marius.schebella at gmail.com> wrote:

> Frank Barknecht wrote:
> > Hallo,
> > Andy Farnell hat gesagt: // Andy Farnell wrote:
> > 
> >> Both use the same patch (the undulating diffraction effect). It's 
> >> comparable because I translated the Csound version directly to Pd, both 
> >> are 64 oscillator banks and it's clear that the Csound one sparkles while
> >> the Pd one sounds a bit muddy.
> > 
> > Csound also is known as "CleanSound" in some circles.
> 
> so why is then "pure" data not equally clean?
> marius.


Because it's optimised for real-time performance.

Max/Pd strike a careful balance between for real-time capability.
The amazing sound quality of Csound comes about because it was designed
for offline rendering, and it got realtime by dint of increased CPU speeds.

Like the difference between a 3D games engine and rendering a raytracing
scene in 3DMax. 

In a way, it's not really a fair comparison at all, or at least we could
say "what did you expect?!"





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