--- On Fri, 4/16/10, Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PD] nusmuk_audio WAS: Max Smoother Audio than Pd? > To: "PD list" <[email protected]>, "Phil Stone" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, April 16, 2010, 8:11 AM > > > --- On Thu, 4/15/10, Phil Stone <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > From: Phil Stone <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [PD] nusmuk_audio WAS: Max Smoother Audio > than Pd? > > To: "PD list" <[email protected]> > > Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010, 7:49 PM > > In addition to disagreeing vehemently > > with your main point (Pd is good for little more than > > experimentation), I find this a piss-poor acid test > for > > "music that sounds good": > > > > [email protected] > > wrote: > > > there is no such project that show how pd is cool > to > > make people moving on the dance floor. > > > > > Phil- I dig music with compelling sounds, and I generally > feel the > urge to move my body to music I dig. One can use > whatever > test one wants to hold up some music as "genuine," and the > question "does > it draw people out onto the dance floor?" is just as valid > as any other in > this regard. > > But then if the point of the acid test is to demonstrate > the strengths > of a visual programming paradigm for the rapid > implementation of various > dsp techniques to generate music, I'd say the OP's test is > quite a fitting > and effective "Hello World" for Pd. > > -Jonathan Btw- I don't mean "this will be a 'Hello World' for Pd at some future point in its development." I just mean it's a good way for users to test how flexible and expressive their software is in a live setting. I mean let's face it-- you crash at a performance and people sit and read their programs while you restart the program. You crash while people are dancing, and they leave. -Jonathan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
