Hi Roman, all, Here's discussion that caught my eye some while back
http://www.devmaster.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5784 There's been several good posts on music-dsp and dsp-related.com over the years dealing with both sides, high accuracy and high effciciency. In the end, of course, it's a trade off. Andy On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:39:54 +0100 Roman Haefeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 21:25 +0000, Andy Farnell wrote: > > On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:08:45 -0500 > > marius schebella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Frank Barknecht wrote: > > > > Hallo, > > > > Andy Farnell hat gesagt: // Andy Farnell wrote: > > > > > > > >> Both use the same patch (the undulating diffraction effect). It's > > > >> comparable because I translated the Csound version directly to Pd, > > > >> both > > > >> are 64 oscillator banks and it's clear that the Csound one sparkles > > > >> while > > > >> the Pd one sounds a bit muddy. > > > > > > > > Csound also is known as "CleanSound" in some circles. > > > > > > so why is then "pure" data not equally clean? > > > marius. > > > > > > Because it's optimised for real-time performance. > > > > Max/Pd strike a careful balance between for real-time capability. > > The amazing sound quality of Csound comes about because it was designed > > for offline rendering, and it got realtime by dint of increased CPU speeds. > > sounds reasonable. however, i would be interested to have some > illustration of that. what is it, that makes the difference? i'd be most > interested to see examples on a rather low level (oscillators, ramp > generators etc). the code for both is open, so it should be feasible to > find some differences, if there are any. > > basically, this means also, that it is not possible to generate any > intended signal with pd. is that true? > > roman > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: > http://mail.yahoo.de > -- Use the source _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
