On Feb 8, 2011, at 11:08 AM, martin.peach@sympatico.ca <martin.peach@sympatico.ca
wrote:
So we´ve to compare PD with Max and then will decide for the better
one...I prefer PD, so i need some Arguments for PD... Why PD and non Max?
My Arguments are:
- In PD you can easily write own Objects in PD (With C/C++ --> Is
that in Max as possible like in PD ???
Yes, see: http://cycling74.com/products/sdk/
Apart from that, Pd is free and also runs on linux.
It turns out that the Max/MSP and PD APIs are very close, so you can
write/port externals for both without too much effort.
- Pd is very portable and flexible and you can run it on many platforms:
GNU/Linux Mac OS X Windows iPhoneOS Android Maemo on any embedded Linux-based system on hardware DSP chips integer-only mobile CPUs (PDa)
- The MSP part of Max/MSP is built using the sources from Pd (see the
startup screen on Max/MSP).
you can make highly-optimized builds for your own CPU.
its embeddable into other programming languages (libpd):
C/C++ OpenFrameworks Java
Any many more, depends really on what you want to do.
.hc
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