Hallo, marius schebella hat gesagt: // marius schebella wrote:
Frank Barknecht wrote:
Just a note: Many people all over the world are using Pd in live performances, which proves that it is a suitable tool for this.
not really, it just proves, that some people know how to handle the problems, be it knowing about the limitations or just not caring about dropouts.
Which doesn't contradict my statement that Pd is a suitable tool for live performances, otherwise these people in the know would use something else. (Pd also is a programming language, so part of the suitability for certain tasks depends on the quality of the programs written.)
My point is: We shouldn't make Pd worse than it actually is. Apart from Supercollider (and somehow Csound) there is not a single piece of free software in its realm that managed to be the tool of choice for so many people for such a long time now. Pd throughout its 10-year history and with every major revision always was a usable tool for live performances (probably also thanks to Miller's conservatism when it comes to doing deep changes to the software). It's much more than just a prototyping tool, it always was a tool for practioneers.
Ciao
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