[PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

martin brinkmann mnb at martin-brinkmann.de
Thu Mar 25 21:37:13 CET 2010


colet.patrice at free.fr wrote:

> didn't like the sonority of netpd for example, because rendered
> texture are poor, only one sytnh sound good

the reason might be that netpd is 'pd-vanilla', and there are
not so much techniques used for getting smooth(er) sound (afair),
like bandlimited oscs and custom filters. without any further effort (or
using externals), pd sounds pretty rough and 'digital'. (not so much
like 'ice-cold fm-pads', more like '8-bit lofi with aliasing'.)

a 'modern' version of netpd, using rjlib for example, might sound
better.

i think max/msp has a few more good sounding 'built-in'-objects than pd
(i have only played a little with the demo version), and other
systems, which are more high-level (reaktor, supercollider, csound)
have 'good-sounding' modules out-of-the-box anyway.
but i think it is possible to achieve similar quality with pd.
it needs (quite a lot) more effort though...

bis denn!
	martin




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