Hi David,
You should learn everything you have time to, that way learning more stuff that does not yet exist will be easier. PD and Max are very similar, learning one gets you a huge way to learning the other, just a few interesting caveats here and there (and differing object names, and objects).
Max/msp is what $600 or so? Plus the upgrades for the rest of your life. ;)
As for alternatives to the "established" stuff look into:
ardour, cinelerra, gimp, inkscape
.b.
David Schaffer wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'm a stage/audiovisual technician willing to make a move into
digital arts. I've been using pd for quite some time know and I was wondering if it would be useful for me to learn Max: according to you guys, which of the two programs seems to be most widely used, most popular, most promising in terms of future devellopements? Is it worth to be good in both or to become "excellent" (whatever that means...) in one of them? Is there another platform out there that would be worth giving a look (outside of the established stuff like pro tools, final cut, photoshop etc...) Thank you for your answers.
D.S
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