[PD] Pd sounds better than Max?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

It could be, it's just a matter of someone writing the code :)   
That's why I proposed the 'cleansound' library.

.hc

On Mar 9, 2008, at 2:01 PM, bsoisoi wrote:

> Well, why couldn't Pd be as "clean", processors are fast enough these
> days, and one could always crank up the sample rates of their DSP
> blocks.  Isn't the internal resolution at least 32bit anyway (is it
> 64bit under any circumstances?)
>
> cheers,
> ~brandon
>
>
> On Mar 8, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Andy Farnell wrote:
>
>> 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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