[PD] Pd sounds better than Max?

[Andy Farnell]

Hi Roman, all,

Here's discussion that caught my eye some while back

http://www.devmaster.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5784

There's been several good posts on music-dsp and dsp-related.com
over the years dealing with both sides, high accuracy and high
effciciency. In the end, of course, it's a trade off.

Andy




On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:39:54 +0100
Roman Haefeli <reduzierer at yahoo.de> wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 21:25 +0000, 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.
> 
> sounds reasonable. however, i would be interested to have some
> illustration of that. what is it, that makes the difference? i'd be most
> interested to see examples on a rather low level (oscillators, ramp
> generators etc). the code for both is open, so it should be feasible to
> find some differences, if there are any.
> 
> basically, this means also, that it is not possible to generate any
> intended signal with pd. is that true? 
> 
> roman
> 
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