Hallo, David Powers hat gesagt: // David Powers wrote:
I think this is quite exciting - and it's a really good thing for Pure Data, on the PR front, to be able to have somthing so useful. This is something one can immediately point composers too as some useful software that is free and will run on any operating system. A lot of people (myself included at the beginning) don't get into PD because it's unclear what you can actually DO off the bat with it (besides "anything")!
You have discovered part of my secret plan here. ;) The RTC-lib is a well-known library in certain (mostly "academic", but also "Autechre") circles, it's used in education and you'll meet it in the literature like R. Rowe's "Machine Musicianship" etc. With RTC-lib being available on Pd as well, I'm trying to establish Pd in these areas a bit more and take over a certain "market share". Composition students who want to explore the RTC-lib, now don't need to buy a copy of Max anymore (or run on never-expiring demo versions) - the can just use Pd instead. And of course I also want to use it myself.
There's nothing about RTC-lib that really requires Max: Most of the stuff in RTC-lib just deals with doing calculations on integer numbers (and lists of integers) representing midi note events. Nothing special here, except of course, that list-processing wasn't really available in Max at the time, RTC-lib was started (~1994). But as Pd has [list] now you can do almost the complete RTC-lib in pure Pd.
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