[PD] ChucK vs. Pd

[Frank Barknecht]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 08:08:55PM -0400, Spencer Russell wrote:
> PD's blocking behaviour is also configurable with the [block~] object,
> so you can set the blocksize to a single sample if you like.
> 
> I think I remember reading that ChucK can operate with variable-sized
> blocks as well, but I could be wrong.

I think, variable timing ("strongly timed") is the interesting part of ChucK. I
wrote a bit about this in my LAC2010 paper "Applications of Blocked Signal
Processing (BSP) in Pd":
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/papers/24.pdf
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/download/lac2010_bsp_in_pd.tgz
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2010/recordings/day3_1045_Applications_of_Blocked_Signal_Processing_in_Pd.ogv

LuaAV also allows flexible timings.

Ciao
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