Around a year ago I was looking into PD, MAX/MSP, Supercollider, CSound, DSP in general etc. after playing with modular synths and synths w/ large modulation matrixes for a couple years. Kind of dropped all that and picked the guitar back up for a while. Thinking about getting back in to it but primarily from the perspective of realtime audio effects - reverb, phasing, distortion, ring modulation, vocoding, gating, and 100 different things I'm sure you can think of (as opposed to creating a completely virtual instrument).
How does PD stack up against MSP in that regard? Is there something else I should be looking at? Another thought is picking up a Nord Micro Modular but that wouldn't necessarily preclude the PD/MSP route.
Thanks!
John