[PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd?

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Sun Mar 28 11:44:23 CEST 2010


On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:07:29AM +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> Is it time for having a pool for Pd-made music? There was the Pd radio
> which I quite liked. Would it require a lot of effort to bring it up
> again?

Not quite the same, but as you know, http://rjdj.me has hours and hours of
Pd-made music, albeit in 22050 Hz, so it's not exactly a showcase for the most
hifi Pd sounds possible. Still I find many of these to be pretty good sounding.

Regarding the smoothness of Max/Pd/etc. lets heed to the words of our
grandfather Max Mathews: 
  
  "Max and Pd allow almost anyone to synthesize uninteresting timbres almost
  instantly. Making interesting timbres is much more difficult and requires much
  additional knowledge."
  http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques/latest/book-html/node5.html

It's not so much the tool, as it is the skills that makes music sound good. If
you use a [phasor~] as a sawtooth oscillator source, you're "wrong" in both Max
and Pd.

Ciao
-- 
Frank




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