Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-11 Thread Patrice Colet
Hello, Max Neupert a écrit : Am 10.10.2007 um 12:24 schrieb Jack: I prefer PD with a small GUI, it's better for CPU and GPU. Jack i wonder why people do things in pd like $ reducing the number of sliders, toggles and bangs to a minimum, or $ running two instances of pd for the gui, or

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-11 Thread Jack
Hello, i wanted to say that an interface in your main patch with a lot of bang that receive bang every 5 ms, numberbox that receive number every 5 ms is not good for CPU and GPU (or i'm wrong ?). Concerning the last release of Max, i think also this not good (antialiasing, zoom step by

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-11 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Thomas Grill hat gesagt: // Thomas Grill wrote: Since i don't like a program to educate me, but i rather like to use a program to do things that i want, the new Max features will help with that. The pd-based vibrez gui has also always separated the patcher logic from the gui, and i'm

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-11 Thread Mathieu Bouchard
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote: May be, but then, Max almost always was in advance of Pd as far as issues like usability are concerned, and still Pd was popular. Probably the new Max will make some people change their minds again, but in general I believe, both Pd and Max can

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-11 Thread Thomas Grill
Frank Barknecht schrieb: And Max will never beat Pd's price. I'm quite sure this is wrong, given the time i for one invested in implementing certain kernel features, fixing bugs and providing workarounds. greetings, Thomas ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-11 Thread chris clepper
On 10/11/07, Thomas Grill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Barknecht schrieb: And Max will never beat Pd's price. I'm quite sure this is wrong, given the time i for one invested in implementing certain kernel features, fixing bugs and providing workarounds. On the other hand, two of us beat

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-11 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:18 +0200, Jack wrote: Hello, i wanted to say that an interface in your main patch with a lot of bang that receive bang every 5 ms, numberbox that receive number every 5 ms is not good for CPU and GPU (or i'm wrong ?). afaik, in pd this affects only the cpu, not

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-11 Thread Jack
hmm, strange, i thought that macosx use the gpu for graphics. Jack Le 11 oct. 07 à 19:42, Roman Haefeli a écrit : On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:18 +0200, Jack wrote: Hello, i wanted to say that an interface in your main patch with a lot of bang that receive bang every 5 ms, numberbox that

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-11 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
On Oct 11, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Thomas Grill wrote: Frank Barknecht schrieb: And Max will never beat Pd's price. I'm quite sure this is wrong, given the time i for one invested in implementing certain kernel features, fixing bugs and providing workarounds. greetings, Thomas Max does not

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-11 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
It does somewhat, but not a lot. It could use it a lot more to speed things up. .hc On Oct 11, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Jack wrote: hmm, strange, i thought that macosx use the gpu for graphics. Jack Le 11 oct. 07 à 19:42, Roman Haefeli a écrit : On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 15:18 +0200, Jack

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-10 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Andy Farnell hat gesagt: // Andy Farnell wrote: I'm a bit torn on this. I actually like the concept, but you're right, like all good things that make life easy they tend to erode discipline and structure. The patch messy and sweep it all under the rug philosophy is probably very

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-10 Thread Steffen Juul
While I agree very much with both Kevin and Frank, quoted below, i think this debate is healthy, as it would be foolish not to look for new ideas. That many new ideas will be discarded since they rime an awful lot with Fisher Price is another matter. On 10/10/2007, at 3.27, Kevin McCoy

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-10 Thread jamie
Hallo, Andy Farnell hat gesagt: // Andy Farnell wrote: I'm a bit torn on this. I actually like the concept, but you're right, like all good things that make life easy they tend to erode discipline and structure. The patch messy and sweep it all under the rug philosophy is probably very

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
This is the stuff that I think is much more interesting, it's the stuff that doesn't make for sexy videos, but actually improves your life: http://www.cycling74.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2007/9/28/105551/882 Let me give you just one example of what I'm talking about. In Max 4.x there was

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-10 Thread marius schebella
I don't understand people complaining about additional features. you don't have to use it, if you don't want. but for other people it makes sense to layout their interface independently from their code. design is so important for a graphical user interface! I heard this so often I can't share my

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
The one part of presentation that I was intrigued by is the idea of separating the interface from the implementation. I think it's interesting to explore the idea, I just think that having the only connection be that little fade effect when switching is not really a strong enough

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-10 Thread Jack
I prefer PD with a small GUI, it's better for CPU and GPU. Jack Le 10 oct. 07 à 16:07, marius schebella a écrit : I don't understand people complaining about additional features. you don't have to use it, if you don't want. but for other people it makes sense to layout their interface

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-10 Thread Steffen Juul
On 10/10/2007, at 16.07, marius schebella wrote: I don't understand people complaining about additional features. you don't have to use it, if you don't want. Minimal or to-the-point-ness of an application can be very desirable. To illustrate I've for the same reasons used EevilWM not

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-10 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
A programming environment should encourage people to program in a way that not only works, but also is clearly legible to people who have never seen that program before. This makes it much easier to reuse and maintain code, and that leads to much less duplicated effort. That means

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-10 Thread B. Bogart
Wow, its rounded/bubbly !!! I just realized the fancy shaded PD icon has open inlets, and closed outlets, which as far as I know comes from a rendering bug in tk... Not by design, or maybe I'm wrong... Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: Hmm, looks nice, with lots of nifty features. But I

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-10 Thread Max Neupert
Am 10.10.2007 um 12:24 schrieb Jack: I prefer PD with a small GUI, it's better for CPU and GPU. Jack i wonder why people do things in pd like $ reducing the number of sliders, toggles and bangs to a minimum, or $ running two instances of pd for the gui, or writing their gui themselves in

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-10 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:07 -0400, marius schebella wrote: I don't understand people complaining about additional features. you don't have to use it, if you don't want. but for other people it makes sense to layout their interface independently from their code. design is so important for a

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-10 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 18:24 +0200, Jack wrote: I prefer PD with a small GUI, it's better for CPU and GPU. since when does pd-gui affect gpu? and what would be bad about using a most of the time just unused gpu power for a gui? i noticed, that cpu based guis in many linux audio programms are the

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-10 Thread marius schebella
with the level of virtuosity you also want to demand new levels of requirements. it is not about displaying a visualization of the programming flow or readability of code, it is only about efficiency and user interaction. for other situations than performance or user interface, this feature is

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-10 Thread Vircy Parker
Dear Santa-Claus, you have regaled to my neighbor a new release of max. You know, I'm a bad kid and use linux, but in last time I try to be better person. Ok, bad kid can't have a very stable software is a nature law but could I to have a new PD. That is my list of new derired features: -A gui

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-10 Thread Thomas Grill
Since i don't like a program to educate me, but i rather like to use a program to do things that i want, the new Max features will help with that. The pd-based vibrez gui has also always separated the patcher logic from the gui, and i'm already curious to compare the two systems. To my mind it

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-09 Thread altern
these links interesting as well. An article by Zicarelly: http://www.cycling74.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2007/9/28/105551/882 and videos showing the new max: http://www.cycling74.com/story/2007/10/5/91222/9559 Hans-Christoph Steiner(e)k dio: Hmm, looks nice, with lots of nifty features. But

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-09 Thread vade
Hans, thats the whole point of presentation mode, to separate the patching logic from the presentation! you can organize your gui elements in the code in places that make sense and follow the logical flow of the patch, and then present them in the UI however you choose. I am so glad they

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-09 Thread Kevin McCoy
The Pd graph-on-parent makes more sense IMHO because it uses existing Pd mechanisms for encapsulation and encourages patchers to modularize their programs. 100% agreed, that is why I thought umm... what's so special about this presentation mode? when I saw that page. To me that should be

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-09 Thread Andy Farnell
I'm a bit torn on this. I actually like the concept, but you're right, like all good things that make life easy they tend to erode discipline and structure. The patch messy and sweep it all under the rug philosophy is probably very appealing to many. On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 21:27:47 -0400 Kevin

[PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-08 Thread Thomas O Fredericks
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/10/08/first-max-5-preview-music-patching-the-next-generation/ ___ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management - http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list

Re: [PD] That's a surprising new look

2007-10-08 Thread cdr
can you elaborate on surprising? you mean the 'look' trend over the past half decade hasnt been towards oversized/fisher-price/antialiased? one peep at the typical web 2.0 or iphone app, or ableton live, or the feature list of DesireData should lend weight to the 'theres nothing at all