[PD] Pd sounds better than Max?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 8, 2008, at 11:00 PM, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Andy Farnell  
> <padawan12 at obiwannabe.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>  You take as many sines as the system will handle, typically
>>  a thousand or so, and sum them. All must start on exactly the
>>  same phase. Now, if we had a series of _all_ frequencies it would
>>  give us an impulse, but instead set the difference between each
>>  oscillator to be 1 cycle + delta, where delta is very small, maybe
>>  1Hz or less.
>
> This is an interesting concept, thanks for passing it along.
>
>>  Hardly very scientific, but roughly from the few chances I've had
>>  to try it on different systems...
>>
>>  Csound - the King, all bow before Csound
>
> yeah boyee

To muddy the waters a bit, the most 'correct' sound isn't always the  
best sound.  Consider so many people's love of tube amps.  They have  
higher distorsion than transistor amps, yet so many people think they  
sound better.

.hc

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