[LAU] which audio synthesis environment?

Grammostola Rosea rosea.grammostola at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 07:09:07 EDT 2009


Atte Andre Jensen wrote:
> Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>
>   
>> And why do you use Chuck Atte?
>>     
>
> At first I was fascinated by the live coding capabilities, but in the 
> end I never practiced enough to actually be able to do it live :-(
>
> What kept me in the loop was the very clear and well laid out 
> documentation which in some way fitted well with where I came from in 
> programming.
>
> What I love now are the algorithmic possibilities and the fact it's so 
> easy to build your environment with OOP.
>
> However I'm reaching the limits performance wise. I almost finished a 
> csound backend for my setup that let's me migrate cpu heavy parts (only 
> sound generation) to csound. That might be my future solution.
>
> Otherwise I sometimes wish I learned supercollider in stead, since it 
> seems to perform better and has some nifty tricks up its sleeve. I study 
> supercollider in my spare time, but my live setup in chuck works and 
> migrating 2 hours of interactive, algoritmic music is not a quick task 
> however sleek the environment or how well you know it :-(
>
>   
And why don't you use puredata, with csound for example?


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