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kleinbl00  ·  3223 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: February 3, 2016

Capytalk (the language underpinning Kyma) is like the basque of sound design languages. The mother tongue of most competitors is Max, which begat MaxMSP and PureData. I never spent much time in Max because it won't do real-time processing, which means it's un-musical. At the time, NI Reaktor was proprietary, teutonic and mostly useful for modeling analog synthesis but in the intervening years, Kyma has languished while Reaktor has flourished. I'll probably go that way.

Although if someone could figure out a way to make PureData run hardware-accelerated on non-proprietary shit I'd be all over it.