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    Max/MSP

    in EKT General Discussion

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    On 1/23/2021 at 3:48 AM, rhmilo said:

    there's multiple of ways to deal with arrays, for instance, and all of them are ugly and inconvenient

    I wanna requote this too, for emphasis. This is very significant in these kinds of tools. Arrays are so incredibly useful for all sorts of audio applications: sample frames, sample banks, wavetables, delay buffers, sequencer steps, sequencer patterns, chords, scales, tuning, harmonics, polyphony, unison oscs, allpass/comb networks for reverbs, and FFT tables just to name some obvious ones. If you feel like you're working against the grain there, you are in for a bad time.

    Max/MSP

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    2 hours ago, mcbpete said:

    Couldn't you do both using the js and/or the gen~ objects ? 

    That's quite awkward too. You're then using 2 additional languages without much in the way of libraries or modules or useful abstractions for either, so you have to do much of it from scratch. And then sharing or encapsulating the code is still done with the patcher, as is wiring them up. So you don't get the reusability advantages of code, it's more like making custom Max objects.

    Recs wanted for DAWs and Interface for older 15+ year old PC

    in EKT General Discussion

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    29 minutes ago, EXTRASUPER81 said:

    Reaper works on Linux under Wine perfectly by accounts so I would have thought so.

    No need for Wine - reaper.fm provides "experimental builds" but they work just as well as the Windows ones.

    Renoise will probably also work well on an older machine, although I'd probably advise using an older version for that, which your license may or may not permit.

    Haven't used Buzz for years, but it was the shit back in the day.

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    Max/MSP

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    2 hours ago, rhmilo said:

    Finally, I'll say that after completing the course, the book and a bunch of other material in the end I decided Max/MSP was not for me. As programming languages go it's terrible: inconsistent, inelegant and very obviously hacked together without any sort of overall plan (there's multiple of ways to deal with arrays, for instance, and all of them are ugly and inconvenient). My programming background means I cannot in any way stomach this garbage - and nor do I need to because pretty much everything I want to do can be done with different technology.

    Thank you, this is so validating.

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    Now That Trump's President... (not any more!)

    in General Banter

    Posted

    3 hours ago, jules said:

    Both sides are so fucking extreme right now

    Agree with your suggestions but not with this statement. The current GOP is far-right and even the 1980 GOP looks far-left in comparison - thanks in part to e.g. Clinton-era policies, to be fair.

    Wholeheartedly agree that healthier 3rd parties could only improve the political dialog. Super tired of the SportsBall paradigm.

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    Petition to get Gearslutz to change its name

    in Music Discussion

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    4 hours ago, chim said:

    GS has nothing on places like Super Best Audio Friends when it comes to abrasion and elitism. I dig 80's and 90's producers casually dropping in to spill the beans on famous tracks in the midst of a "how did they do it" discussion. The in-depth knowledge of 70's capacitors has a certain wow-factor as well. Just gotta ignore the capitalist bootlicking and so on. I can't recall any message board from the 00's era internet without sour or dull elements. 

    Actually, yeah, I still read those Charlie Clouser and Steve Albini threads from time to time. Good shit.

    generative MIDI for fun and profit

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted

    57 minutes ago, thawkins said:

    If it should work like that, then I'll just give it a shot - I am just unfamiliar to SuperCollider and I figured you would need to set up some scaffolding for sounds and MIDI connections or something who knows!

    Nope, that's part of why I love SC - I'm lazy :) The only "scaffolding" you should need to do (as long as your sound is properly configured) is booting the server.

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    generative MIDI for fun and profit

    in EKT General Discussion

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    4 hours ago, thawkins said:

    I'm interested in trying this out - could I ask you to share a minimal project or some code I can copy and paste, hit play and get started?

    For sure! That snippet right there should be runnable although I don't think it sounds great or anything, plus it will use the (super bland) default piano instrument.

    I'll see if I can find some other cool sequences, but it might be faster for me to whip something up if you have some suggestions/prompts? 

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    generative MIDI for fun and profit

    in EKT General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by sweepstakes

    I know I'm kind of a broken record about this lately but this yet another thing I'd definitely use SuperCollider for. If only because I'm lazy and it's easy.

    (Pbind(
        \scale, Scale.harmonicMinor,
        \degree, Pbrown(0, Scale.harmonicMinor.size, 3),
        \octave, Pbrown(3, 6, 2, inf),
        \dur, Pwrand(
            (1..4) / 8,
            [3, 5, 2, 1].normalizeSum,
            inf
        ),
    ).play)

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