[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] music engine

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Ismael Valladolid Torres hat gesagt: // Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:

> Frank Barknecht escribe:
> > Pd now is in its tenth year of existence (not counting its
> > predecessors like Max or Patcher) and in several places it doesn't
> > follow what today is viewed as good practice, and there sure is room
> > for improvement.
> 
> Was Max a direct predecessor of Pd?

Yes and no, it's a slightly complicated relationship that's maybe best
described as Max, the older brother, and Pd, the younger, uglier and
smarter sister with glasses. ;) You may want to read
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/Publications/dartmouth-reprint.dir/ a nice
paper by Miller Puckette about Max at age 17.

Miller S. Puckette invented Max at IRCAM in the 80s. In the early
1990s a commercial version of the program (developed and extended by
David Zicarelli) was released by Opcode Systems, now Cycling 74. When
Miller left IRCAM, the institute more or less claimed that IRCAM Max
was their sole property. So Miller started Pd as a new, open source
software, mentioned first in 1996 in an ICMC-paper. The DSP part of Pd
was later included in Opcode/Cycling Max as the "Max Signal
Processing" extension, short MSP (which incidentally are the initials
of Miller's name as well). This is possible because Pd's license is a
BSD-ish license which also allows closed-source derivatives.


IRCAM Max OTOH was transformed to become open source as jMax and then
it died.

Ciao
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