On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > >> --- On Sun, 6/19/11, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> What's a « technological parody » ? >>> >> >> It's where you take something like a modern digital computer and do DSP by >> using an interface modeled after 30 year-old analog audio equipment. >> > > Therefore Pd is a technological parody ? > Seems like this fits into the discussion of CV's in digital synthesizers, however briefly on-topic it was :) Pd is *not* a technological parody by being able to do everything that a 30-year-old analog interface could do, because it does it better. Hardware for running Pd to accomplish the same tasks can be smaller and less specialized. There's lower noise, less distortion--things that would take a team of engineers several years to build with hardware would be programmable in Pd in less time. A technological parody ought to be defined by: 1. usage of high-tech hardware to fulfill a low-tech purpose 2. an unwarranted degree of specialization or wasteful usage of hardware size/power e.g. a wind controller shaped exactly like a clarinet, running off a DSP board, and all it does is sound exactly like a clarinet. Why don't I just mic a clarinet? Anybody else got one? Chuck
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