--- On Thu, 3/25/10, Matteo Sisti Sette matteosistisette@gmail.com wrote:
From: Matteo Sisti Sette matteosistisette@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PD] Max Smoother Audio than Pd? To: porres@gmail.com Cc: "PD list" pd-list@iem.at Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 6:17 PM
So, I think this is an important
myth to get over...
Well that seems a kinda "biased" approach :)
Whenever anybody says that "Max sounds smoother than Pd" (or viceversa of course) we should force him to answer these three questions:
- define "smoother", what the hell does it mean (is it
less clicks/pops? is it less dropouts? or what else?)
are you comparing with the same hardware?
Let me see the patches (ok this is not a question - this
is a demand, lol)
You don't even need to do 1). You could take examples from both environments (being as careful as possible to make the patches identical and have everyone listen and judge on the same hardware) and do a blind test on which sound is smoother/better/etc. If the results clearly favor sound a over sound b, either there is something to it or something was screwy in one of the patches.
Sounds like someone at cnmat played around with the whole Max vs. Supercollider question a while back (though it was just two people): http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/user/john_maccallum/blog/2008/08/22/max_msp_v_supe...
Somebody in the Max forum mentioned in the blog addressed how the software interface may influence perception of sound quality. I think that's important to keep in mind-- if you're switching back and forth between Max and Pd to compare sounds many other things might be influencing your judgment.
-Jonathan