Roman Haefeli wrote: > hey funny... i also heard people saying something similar the other way > around. > > since the same digital algorithm produces the same results on two > different machines or in two different softwares, i think there are only > very esoteric reasons to believe, that one sounds 'fuller' (what does it > mean technically?) or 'richer' (more harmonics?) than the other. for me > this goes to a similar direction as the discussion, if oxygen free, > golden plated 8mm-diammeter speaker cables sound better than others (i > would rather suspect a difference there than between max and pd).
well, he also said that it was because the [osc~] had a larger table size in Pd than in Max, which would make sense. my initial assumption was that it was to do bit-depth. i used to scoff at people who claimed 24 bit was better; but then i spent some time in a studio working with 24 bit audio, and, well, you notice. (but both Pd and Max are 32 bit float, right?) i hear you about the speaker cables; there are differences even amongst digital stuff though. for example when Ableton Live clips, to my ears it clips a lot nicer than ProTools does. (actually ProTools in general sounds very dead - its precision means that you have to work your ass off to get colour into your sound.) and back when i was composing in a multitrack sequencer environment, i remember choosing to use Cubase SX because its audio engine just sounded nicer than any of the other apps of the time (Cakewalk and Logic being the main competitors). > hm.. thinking more about that, i wonder whether this guy thinks, that pd > people do just different, probably subjectively better sounding stuff. > or does he really think, that [phasor~] in pd sounds nicer than the > [phasor~] in max? this would be actually quite easy to test, if there is > any difference at all. create a wav with same frequency and phase of a > [phasor~], once in pd, once in max, and then subtract the one from the > other and if you do not get a completely silent file, > then............... *i shut up* ;-) nice idea, but i'd try it with an [osc~]. anyone want to volunteer? -- damian stewart | +351 967 797 263 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] frey | live art with machines | http://www.frey.co.nz _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
