[PD] kyma x pd and others?

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

Hi, any of you guys into Kyma? So many questions about this thing I've
never seen...


It's quite expensive and I wonder where the buck goes to... software
design? User experience? Whatever it is, it doesn't seem its dedicated
hardware justifies even half the cost... c'mon, 3k for what kinds of
processors? They won't even tell what kind of processors they are... the
lack of transparency is such that the only specs of the processor is
measured in "capstones" whatever that is...


Ok, it might be the best thing since cheese, but they don't put any real
effort in selling with actual numbers/data... which raises so many
questions...


since there's nothing else apparently today that has dedicated hardware for
audio, I can only imagine that a dedicated hardware makes sense for a
little less latency, which is also not a big deal these days...


A dedicated low latency hardware like 'Bela' (less than 0.5ms) is much
cheaper, does the price of kyma reflect a corresponding power in relation
to its cost difference?


So it seems the price is more about the convenience, the user experience
and the software...


now, since I'm here, what can it do that pd can't? Or any other plugin /
computer music tool out there, IRCAM stuff icluded... Csound, Supercollider
et all?


thanks
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