On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 01:28 +0000, Damian Stewart wrote:
hey,
i was talking to a Portuguese musician tonight (Miguel Cardoso is his name) and he was saying that he thought that Pd sounded much better than Max - a fuller sound with the oscillators, he said.
i hadn't really thought about this before, but i do know that to my ears my Pd patches sound a lot richer than most Max/MSP stuff that I've heard - not sure whether that's my source material or patches or whether it's at a deeper architectural level than that.
anyone have any evidence, anecdotal or otherwise, to confirm this? reasons why this might be the case?
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).
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* ;-)
roman
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