RE: [microsound] pretenders

[mark <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm - didn't really mean to cause all this confusion. The reason 
I used the word pretenders is that this tools (PD and jMax) work 
in the same way as max but have a lot less objects - from my point 
of view (a PC user who really wants a full blown Max) they are 
good but not the real deal (not unless I want to do a lot of coding 
and porting which given my day job is software development and 
my hobby is music making is not really what I want to be doing). 
So in that sense they are pretenders. 

Between the two I can do a lot of the things I want so its not 
too bad. Cycling 74 reckon they've got a Max port for windows 
comming out soon anyhow. 

hope that makes things clearer - I'll be a bit more careful next 
time. :-) 

cheers 

mark

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michal Seta [mailto:mis@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 07 January 2002 17:03
> To: microsound
> Subject: [microsound] pretenders
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I'm not sure why call those pretenders...
> re: PD - Miller Puckette, pd's author, was the original author of Max.
> Somewhere in MSP's documentation it says that MSP is based on 
> PD.  I don't
> mean to start any software flame wars or be a software police.
> 
> ./MiS
> 
> """
> Surely Max is the tool - as far as I can tell (being a PC user)
> Max does all of these things - there are lots of pretenders in the
> PC world (jMax,PD and CPS being the mostly useful) but Max
> does all of this I think.
> """
> 
> 
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