--- On Fri, 4/16/10, Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [PD] nusmuk_audio WAS: Max Smoother Audio than Pd? To: "PD list" pd-list@iem.at, "Phil Stone" pkstone@ucdavis.edu Date: Friday, April 16, 2010, 8:11 AM
--- On Thu, 4/15/10, Phil Stone pkstone@ucdavis.edu wrote:
From: Phil Stone pkstone@ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: [PD] nusmuk_audio WAS: Max Smoother Audio
than Pd?
To: "PD list" pd-list@iem.at 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":
colet.patrice@free.fr 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