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>>> > CSound (for really complicated things and FM synthesis)
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>>> Max/MSP?
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>>FYI, I'm not going to touch the OS vs. commercial debate with a
>>10-foot pole (personally I've been linux-only for about 2 years),
>>but Max/MSP and csound are not in the same universe.
>>The conceptual paradigms are completely different.

>But more-or-less anything that can be done in CSound can be done
>in Max/MSP.

It's true, but the paradigms are different.

In essence, Csound (and it's cousin, also free, that I use RTCMIX) is note-based. . . it's relatively easy to write lists of notes, i.e., essentially scores, and realize them as fixed recordings.

Whereas in MAX/MSP, it is possible to do this, but tricky. What's easy to do in MAX/MSP, is to create a continuous sound that you can then vary in real time with all sorts of controllers and interfaces.

You can do the latter in Csound, . . .but again, it's tricky.

These are generalizations, of course, (and I've done a lot of note-based stuff in MAX/MSP lately) but, perhaps it's not so useful to make a statement like "you can do anything with _________". It's pretty much true of any software tool these days. I could probably write symphonies with FileMaker Pro , given a few plugins.

More interesting is to talk about what's best facilitated by certain software packages, the "paradigm suggestion" that is embedded in them.

Of course, some of the most interesting music comes from people using software (or hardware) in ways that <aren't> immediately obvious.

C

> I could probably write symphonies
> with FileMaker Pro , given a few plugins.

LOL!

-chris