[PD] Pd, Max/Msp, Reaktor, Plogue Bidule... How do these compare?

[Marco Donnarumma]

As many other said before, I personally think there is nothing to compare.
All of them are quite separate environments, and i mean not only computing
capabilities, flexibility and GUI, but above all each community supporting
the projects.
"this" is not better than "that", it's only about what fit best your needs.
So first point out which are exactly your needs. Learning Pd can be
difficult and exhausting in the beg, but once you get familiar with it, I
can assure you it's only pleasure. And there is a world of things you can't
do with any other software. But you have to find out what.
Of course if you don't want to spend too much time _learning_ that's a
different situation. Your needs will tell you.

But anyway, I feel that Max/MSP produce a smoother audio than Pd, is it me
> or does anyone feel this too?
>

mmm, I can't get what you mean here by "smoother".
Best,

M



Sorry for bringing this old thread up, I find Alex's opinion very
> interesting. Actually I kinda feel that using Pd, I'm stuck in the process
> of "making the instrument instead of the music" kinda situation.Even though
> at first, I can custom made an instrument specific to what I want, I ended
> up exhausted at building the instrument first, and find myself resting for
> several moments before finally finishing a composition.
>
> I recently tried Reaktor, and one thing that's best is the interface, that
> features definitely makes me interested in learning deeper into this tool.
> I
> also tried Max/MSP, and yes I love the interface, kinda more engaging to
> patch things. I also recently acquired Launchpad, (with all the monome
> emulations build using Max/MSP, I become slowly adapt to it). But either
> way, I kinda stuck with Pd because this is the first audiovisual
> environment
> programming that I know and dig. So, I think, probably it will all go down
> to which tool we are comfort with (ugh, sounds so diplomatic, hate it).
>
> But anyway, I feel that Max/MSP produce a smoother audio than Pd, is it me
> or does anyone feel this too?
>
> Regards,
>
> Didit
>



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