[PD] OT: Poll: Csounds or SuperCollider or Chuck

[Jonathan Wilkes]

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>From: Michal Seta <mis at artengine.ca>
>To: yvan volochine <yvan.pd at gmail.com>
>Cc: pd-list <Pd-list at iem.at>; João Pais <jmmmpais at googlemail.com>
>Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 5:10 PM
>Subject: Re: [PD] OT: Poll: Csounds or SuperCollider or Chuck
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>On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:45 PM, yvan volochine <yvan.pd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>1. How do they compare against each other?
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I only know a bit csound and am an everyday sc user.
>>- I find csound oldschool syntax pretty boring but maybe that's just me.
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>I find SC syntax pretty ugly, so I guess it is all a matter of taste.
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>- sc is a killer for realtime dsp.
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>So is CSound, no?


Could you give a csound example?  It's been awhile since I've played with Supercollider, but 

its realtime strengths were immediately apparent early on in the tutorials.  Things like creating 

hundreds/thousands of sinewave oscillators that fade out over time and get garbage collected

when each envelope hits zero.  (All without audio dropouts, of course.)

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>- sc-list is *extremely* active and helpful.
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>polyphony in pd is a nightmare, you get it for free in sc:
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>>// 128 sine waves with random freq mixed down to stereo:
>>{ Splay.ar(SinOsc.ar({ExpRand(100, 5e3)} ! 128)) }.play
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>You get it for free in CSOund. 
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>(advertising-mode off) best is of course to try them all and see for yourself !
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>I agree. And to add to the choices, I suggest you all take a look at http://code.google.com/p/pyo/
>You program it in python so its syntax is prettier than CS and SC and modules are coded in C so it is fast.

Interesting, I've never looked at that one.  Thanks.

-Jonathan


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>./MiS
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