Re: [microsound] OSX

["Christopher Sorg" <chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I've heard good and bad about OSX: slow, finicky, confusing at 
times but
> also being rock solid stable, much less likely to crash/freeze, 
and being
> multi-threaded will only crash one app at a time...I guess it 
depends in
> what audio apps you are running...

My experience with the Max/MSP beta version is that it is a ways to 
go.  I attempted to do some patch work (mostly  upgrades to 
previous patches) in OSX and has some program crashes in the 
process.  The OS is rock-solid however and doesn't budge.  I do 
look forward to using max/msp in OS X, but there are definitely 
some things to straighten out in the audio software realm before 
that happens.

It is nice that PD (pure data) and many of the extensions for it are 
readily available for Mac OS X.  And it's free, so if you're in OS X and 
you like max/msp, reaktor or audiomulch type software, go and get 
it!  Also very nice because it runs on the big three OSes, so if 
you've got to do installation work, you have some options.

http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html
http://www.pure-data.org

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     Christopher Sorg/WATFIV
   Multimedia Artist and Instructor
 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
   http://www.csorg.org
     chris@xxxxxxxxx
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