[PD] Open source + musical composition?

[jake danson-faraday]

Thanks for your answers!
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 12:21 AM, Alexandre Torres Porres
<porres at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think open source people are more hacky and DIY and are less tied up,
> which has an impact on the result...

Yes, I agree.


> 2017-02-24 23:25 GMT-03:00 Derek Kwan <derek.x.kwan at gmail.com>:
>> I suppose since open-source software tends to be more community-driven
>> than there could be  more of a proclivity to share code and sounds and so
>> forth, but Max/MSP code also gets shared a lot and in terms of sampled
>> sounds, well,  sampling has been a thing for a long time... In my own
>> experience, study of Pd's source has allowed me to learn and develop my
>> own tools, but I wouldn't say that this necessarily leads to any sort of
>> style of music. I'd say that perhaps with commercial products, you would
>> expect more-polished and thorough documentation, but this isn't always
>> the case. I'm not sure if I answered your questions at all...

It is tough to say for sure, I agree!
Thanks,
jake