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"There's vim as well: http://csound.github.io/" http://csound.github.io/"

• MrLeap 10y ago
  What's pure data in this analogy? https://puredata.info/ https://puredata.info/ A hex editor?
  • badosu 10y ago
    Well, pure data is a 'higher-level' sound programming environment, so it could be emacs.
    • joemi 10y ago
      I don't know about that. I think the visual programming aspect is the most defining trait, in which case...? I don't know any general purpose non-toy visual programming languages/interfaces. Scratch exists but likening PD to Scratch doesn't seem fair to me.
    • MrLeap 10y ago
      Its hard for me to think about it as high level when you're adding sine waves together to make sounds.
      • badosu 10y ago
        My only knowledge of PD is from graphical interfaces that implement components using it, so my assumption was that Csound was lower-level due to my (brief) experience writing on it.
    • vortico 10y ago
      +1 Best analogy. The interface actually reminded me of emacs when I used to use PD.
      • rhizome 10y ago
        Out of curiosity, what did you graduate to?
        • vortico 10y ago
          Switched to Sublime Text years ago. I just have my configuration, and it works fine for me, so no need to change it for the rest of my life. I don't even care if it's not updated ever again.
          • rhizome 10y ago
            Oh, I thought you had graduated from pd.
            • vortico 10y ago
              Oh right, in that case, I use mostly C++ for that, along with my own platform I'm developing.
  • gglitch 10y ago
    Eve. http://witheve.com/ http://witheve.com/
  • jancsika 10y ago
    I'd imagine a hex editor for music would be like a chiptune tracker. Pure Data's domain is digital signal processing, with an emphasis on sound. It's good for prototyping because one edits the signal graph, GUI, and event-triggered scripts in the same visual window using the same event loop. So in a way it's good for building idiosyncratic little "musical hex editors": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz1uNLHorEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz1uNLHorEs I say idiosyncratic because when you can connect anything to anything else, weird things start to happen. (For example, adding two more boxes to the diagram to control the crossfader with the pitch of someone's voice.)
• joemi 10y ago
  Csound is more analogous to GCC than it is to Vim, though. I'd say something akin to Vim would be a tracker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker
  • badosu 10y ago
    Agreed, if PCM [0] is assembly, Csound certainly could be C. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-code_modulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-code_modulation