[LAU] one general question concerning puredata

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Paul Davis hat gesagt: // Paul Davis wrote:

> the slightly longer answer is that pure data (and max) are derived from
> the original Music N language's conception of how to manage this kind of
> thing (the same ideas still found in CSound and SuperCollider). even
> though they have gone far beyond it, they continue to distinguish
> between audio & control datastreams for reasons that are mostly related
> to efficiency. there are many, many cases where control data being
> delivered at a bits-per-second rate significantly below that of audio
> (or even as a stream of events rather than a constant flow) is more than
> adequate, and saves a lot of CPU cycles.

I think, an important distinction to make is that between constantly
flowing signals and sporadic events. In computer music a typical
example would be the different time scales of audio signals and midi
events or between an audio recodding and a midi file or between a real
performance and a written score: These are fundamentally different
ways to desribe music, but both have a place in music making.

Ciao
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