On 16/12/99 02:53, christian hresko said in living color:
quoted 10 lines here's a quick list of what most (if not all) of your current 'tweaky'> here's a quick list of what most (if not all) of your current 'tweaky'
> IDM groups are using and abusing...
>
> MAX
> MSP
> SuperCollider
> PD
> LiSa
> Kyma
> CDP
Didn't know about that one.
quoted 2 lines Metasynth> Metasynth
> SFX
Are you talking about the SFX Machine plugin or something else?
quoted 6 lines i used to have an asr-10 as well, but i'm doubting autechre uses it to> i used to have an asr-10 as well, but i'm doubting autechre uses it to
> do any granular synthesis or heavy signal processing. (probably using
> the asr-10 to trigger samples of stuff they mangled on the computer)
> MSP seems to be one of the programs of choice, but PD is free. (doesn't
> work on a Mac yet...) Kyma is incredible, it's just so fucking
> expensive...
/me wants Santa to deliver a Kyma for Xmas...
/me wants a Mac port of pd...
<snip lots of interesting info>
quoted 4 lines if you have a windows or unix / linux machine, download pd. it'll> if you have a windows or unix / linux machine, download pd. it'll
> probably give you a headache if you have no programming experience, but
> it seems to be a pretty wicked program. (i'm a mac user, so i only get
> to hear about it)
Did I mention that I crave for a Mac pd port. Badly. I want it
now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
I guess (hope) when Mac OS X will be available, it should happen fairly
quickly.
quoted 8 lines Common Music is really interesting as well. (free, but also a pain in> Common Music is really interesting as well. (free, but also a pain in
> the ass to program)
>
> read about Max Mathews if you're interested in the history and
> development of the MusicN languages. (he came up with the idea of unit
> generators) Miller Puckette is another 'pioneer' of object oriented DSP
> software. (he wrote PD and ported MAX to the macintosh platform) super
> props to james mccartney and company.
I thought it was David Z. who ported Max to the Mac...
quoted 7 lines SuperCollider forever (no relation to the group...)> SuperCollider forever (no relation to the group...)
>
> cheers,
>
> christian
>
> : or you can try Csound if you're really brave...
There's an app called Cecilia that provides some kind of GUI for CSound.
Thanks for the great info, BTW.
g.
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