On 3 November 2010 20:24, Lorenzo Sutton <lsutton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> What is the Windows world coming to? >> >> >> http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/powered-by-reaktor/the-mouth/?content=1412&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Mouth > > It's just a piece of good (or bad? I'm not sure because I'm not a real > expert) marketing... Nothing you couldn't do with sooperlooper a bunch of > effects and, maybe, some hardware controllers... Or you could also set > everything up in Pd... The key difference is it's all set up as a unified instrument: install, run, make noise - rather than having to spend lots of time hooking up Jack and managing sessions. Obviously one can sacrifice flexibility for convenience. Tim Exile's stuff is written in Reaktor, to which Pd is probably the open source equivalent. Apparently he started in Pd, and switched to traktor because he couldn't get what he wanted (dunno if that's features, speed, convenience, commercial opportunity, or whatever) in Pd. I really like what he does - it's a really immediate way of making music electronically, giving lots of room for improvisation. At a gig he'll play songs from his albums, but can really make it a live performance. if you want to hear more traditional music with complex instrumentation and arrangements, you probably don't want Exile. Cheers, Dave. -- http://www.witchesband.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
