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

[derek holzer <derek@xxxxxxx>]

Tjeerd Sietsma wrote:

> Oops.. with developers I meant people developing patches with PureData.
> PureData itself is already in beta stage, if not a finished product.
> It's the 'recommended' Windows installer that installs all those
> sometimes pre-alpha libraries that can make your system instable.
> Compared to Max/MSP you do spend more time patching your patches,
> because Max/MSP contains many prefabricated objects.
>
>
> > BTW, what do you mean by incomplete functionnality in PD?
>
> Lack of prefabricated objects that allow faster development. Naturally
> you can make them yourself with PureData and/or C++, but that'll take
> longer.

People like Frank Barknecht and myself [from time to time] are busy 
building end-user "applications" in PD as educatinal tools, but I really 
prefer building things from low-level objects rather than cobbling 
together all the ready-made "blackboxes" in Max/MSP. It was a reason I 
disliked Reaktor so much: when I wanted to use a granulator, they had 
one or two "granulator objects" which you could send parameters to, but 
no way of getting inside the object to chnage its basic function. So I 
build my own in PD, and know exactly how they work and what I can change 
on the most basic levels. This way, I feel that the sound I make is my 
own creation, and not that I'm just twiddling someone else's buttons.

d.

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