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I have to question this assumption that keeps popping up all over the place that somehow digital systems don't have a "sound" to them. Isn't a Max/msp patch essentially built up of different parts like filters? I'm assuming that even if you make your own patches you're building them up out of basic building blocks that do indeed have a certain sound. And to continue with the filter example, even if you're going to code a filter from scratch aren't there certain fundamental types of DSP theory and certain basic filter models that you would use?

I don't really know anything about dsp coding, so I'd be interested to know what some of the programmers on this list have to say about this topic. Do digital techniques move much more quickly than electronic circuit design, or is it similar where there are some basic textbook examples that pretty much everyone draws from?

The line of thinking that says "max/msp does not sound like anything" reminds me of the late '80s early '90s belief that digital synths and sampling could recreate any sound and therefore lets dump all of the analog synths in the trash. Now with a bit of distance and experience, I'd hope we all agree that a sampled waveform does not equal the original sound source and that different samplers have different "sounds" to them.



From: Julian Knowles <j.knowles@xxxxxxxxxx>
...but max/msp does not sound like anything, just as a toolkit does not
presuppose what will be built. ...
...
I think what you mean is people using other people's _patches_
instead of making their own

this is something entirely different again.

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