----- "João Pais" jmmmpais@googlemail.com a écrit :
music. My job is to be a musician, it's what I studied all my life. I know
that in some countries that doesn't count as a job, but on some others it
does. (what I do sometimes to pay the rent isn't my desired job, but a
compromise so that I can have my independence when doing music. although
many people would see it in reverse)
There are at least three dozen jobs in music industry, the necessary knowledge for using pd involves at least half of those jobs, and we could virtually explore almost all of those jobs, I do believe you, no problemo...
what's professional? e.g. reason, which comes with a nice GUI and manual,
and doesn't let you do a fraction of what you can do with pd?is max/msp professional? if yes, what's the difference between that and pd?
is csound professional? it's free, it's taught in many universities, and
used by many many composers. and for tape synthesis it's the best you can
get.
Ardour is a good example of a professional tool, because it supports professional audio hardware, the question about pd is biased because it does support most kind of hardware but the user still have to build his own interface, so, professionalism doesn't come from pd only but from the immixtion of the tool and the user.
if by "professional" you mean "it's sold and people make profit from it",
then in today's world it's such a worthy definition as to say "the website
of this software is blue, therefore it's a good website".
sinceramente
Patrice Colet