RE: [microsound] Max/MSP for Windows

["Christopher Sorg" <chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

I use both, happily.  For instance, if I'm doing installation work, I
like PD because I don't have to purchase a new copy of Max/MSP, I can
use Linux and PD for free.  But the TCL/TK dependence needs to go away.

> BTW, PD is not written in tcl.  It uses tk as its GUI toolkit 
> but there are 
> alernatives.  See 
> http://crca.ucsd.edu/~jsarlo/gripd/> #screenshots for a 
> 
> wxWindows based GUI.  It could enhance 
> the frontend of your patches.  

Another option is to use flashserver
(http://www.akustische-kunst.org/puredata/flash/flash.html) and create
your front-end in Flash.  You can also use paradiddle
(http://homepage.mac.com/atl/pd/paradiddle.html) to create a lovely
Cocoa interface if you're a Mac OS X user.  Some very nice alternatives.
I've used Director + TCP/IP to crosstalk between Max & PD with success
as well.

Of course, these are interface enhancements, and not replacements for
the generally ugly text-box patching interface that both programs share.
Max/MSP is clearly superior in this regard, with routable wires and
alignment tools, but they both are pretty old-fashioned looking/feeling
when compared to something like Reaktor.

And now back to our regularly scheduled program.  What's everyone
listening to right now?

NP: Pioneers of Electronic Music
    John Adams, Nixon in China

-chris

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