Re: [microsound] Mac vs PC (linux information)[pd readymades]

[Michal Seta <mis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Tjeerd Sietsma" <tsietsma@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> You're right, that's a main argument to choose for PD. But next to that,
> PD should also provide it's user with top-level building blocks. 

The links I sent in my previous mail in this thread are such building
blocks and they even have a GUI.  If there aren't enough it's only
because 1) there aren't many users who actually develop for the good
of the community, 2) not enough people asked for such things.  Keep in
mind that many users share their work (not enough perhaps) so you can
always dig in and adapt to your own needs.

> This
> would help a lot of developers gain programming speed and reduce
> efforts.

Developers or users?  

> I guess this is exactly what Miller Puckette doesn't want.

I don't think so.  In fact Miller has started an effort of porting
some pieces from the IRCAM interactive computer music literature
(Boulez, Saariaho, Manoury) and examples of using pd for such things
like collage a la Tenney, spectral resynthesis a la Harvey, phase a la
Reich but IRCAM pulled the plug due to licensing.  Some of the
components (if not most) were ready to reuse.  Blame IRCAM for not
allowing access to such great resource.  OTOH, I doubt David Z., the
cycler74, spends time making user-friendly high-level modules.  Other
people do that.  But then, I don't know jack...  i might be wrong.

The upside is that there is more interest for high-level blocks and
some users started providing some goodies.  Stay tuned.

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