I haven't had time to follow all this thread, but i'd just like to put in 2 cents worth from a survey perspective.
I looked at Psycollider, briefly, & found it was pretty much impossible to find out what was going on, at least without a great deal of effort. Most examples seemed to be in some sort of "rich text format" .rtf that psycollider couldnt read & that was about it. game over.
Originally my intention was to use SC on Linux, however where i live at the moment i can't get ADSL, & with no dialup modem in my linux "experiment" machine, the experiment, is for the mo, on hold.
My focus going forward is to build a wxPython front end for some of the algorithmic composition work i am doing in Python & CSound. Ironically enough, this seems easier than getting to grips with SC on windows, but obviously, because I have already experience with Python & Csound. & wxPython has a reasonably decent book on the subject to help me move forward.
I have a friend however who is on mac. He was talking to me about the kind of stuff I do & wanting to experiment. I told him "try supercollider". Im still sure SC will be well worth checking out, but without a mac to bring to the task, i'm not sure it's worth the effort. At least now i will get the benefit of being able to eavesdrop on somebody with SC running on mac & maybe get some insight into what actually can be done with it.
After all, if i had had reasonable access to SC at any point over the last, say, 4 to 5 years as a windows user, i'm sure i would have picked it up by now.
thor-2 wrote:
I also think that the idea of having a system where you have a
language, an audio
server and a GUI server (written in another language) is quite off-
putting to many
people. SC has now been working on Windows for quite some time. Where
are
all the users?
