mac sequencers.
the only sequencer worth buying is Digital Performer. great support,
great piece of software, and it works extremely well with Reaktor.
cubase isn't my cup of tea. i was never a fan of cubase, and i don't
think i ever will be. very glitchy and unpredictable. (which is a BAD
thing in software)
but i would suggest downloading demos of whatever interests you and try
them out for yourself.
and if you like it, buy it.
unless it's Max / MSP.
why does everyone want to make bouncing ball sounds? it was cool when
RDJ did it. actually, i still think that track kicks ass. but it's
been done. so please don't do it again and again. unless you can do it
better. or something.
and i don't think he used MIDI delays to achieve that effect. if you
listen very carefully, you can here the samples and or patches being
processed. probably an MSP trick.
Using the pumping lemma, we can show that there are algorithms to test
if a given finite - state acceptor accepts any input at all and to test
if it accepts a finite or infinite number of input strings. The next
theorem shows that, in order to test these properties, we need only test
whether or not the finite - state acceptor will accept some word from a
suitable finite list of words. The algorithms for these properties then
consist of testing whether or not the given finite - state acceptor does
indeed accept any strings on this finite list. To test if a finite -
state acceptor accepts a string, simply try all possible computations on
this string; or else use theorem 3.7 to obtain an equivalent
deterministic machine and then run the deterministic machine with this
string as input.
3.7 Theorem If M is a nondeterministic finite - state acceptor, then we
can find a deterministic finite - state acceptor MD such that A(M) =
A(MD).
cheers,
(char)christian;