[PD] Hi, new user. Question about max/msp and PD

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Mon Sep 13 17:21:38 CEST 2010


On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>> Oh, and instead of [transport] just use a metro with a counter sending to 
>> some global receiver. Read from this with [select] to get a kind of Max-5's 
>> [timepoint] clone. See, there's no magic behind these new Max 5 features, 
>> they just unified a bit what all Max/Pd users do anyway in their patches.
>
> It's also that it's more marketable if they add rather trivial features just 
> so that they can say «Max 5 has more features about time scale !». It's 
> easier than to explain to them that Max doesn't need those features.

I mean than "explain to potential buyers"... typically people who don't 
know it yet, and would only take long-winded explanations if they come as 
part of a course...

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