Re: Delay plugins help

[Alex Stahl <alex@pixar.com>]

>At 10:50 AM 6/6/2003, Alex Stahl wrote:
>>>that's funny, I thought the interface was the whole point about 
>radial....
>>
>>no, i don't think so. there's a lot under the hood.
>
>by which I meant: those under-the-hood elements are not necessarily 
>unique or remarkable in and of themselves, but the interface tying 
>them together is the wonderful part making it all intuitive and 
>musical! That's what makes it more of an instrument for performing 
>instead of a collection of software tools. You can really tell that 
>it developed out of real experience and use in live musical 
>performances.

agreed, and also by which I meant, some of the under-the-hood 
mechanisms really are quite remarkable in and of themselves. Max 
scripting was practically invented to make radiaL and similar 
applications scalable and thereby feasible as products. For example, 
when you reconfigure the number of loops (which is by no means 
limited to four) I believe the application code essentially 
self-modifies accordingly. The implications of this to 
performance-worthy stability, while running on general purpose 
computer hardware, are indeed remarkable. If for no other reason than 
this is a remark about them. :-)

-Alex S.