Composers Desktop Project Forum

interesting about the tc shell, most of my experience in nix is in plain old 'vanilla' bash, but working with cdp is motivation enough to check out other shells for the sake of potential automation features alone.

I completely understand where you're coming from with regards to proprietary instruments. when working with CDP, i find them to be corpulent and slow—devoting too much of their processing power to allowing you to hear what you're actually doing. It's almost similar to writing music by ear on a piano vs. learning to sight-read enough to hear a (likely) potential outcome in your 'minds ear'. I'm not at the point where I can do that, but some processes are straight-forward enough that I have a good idea of where i'll be after executing a process.

Funny you should say that about the text editor! Lately it's been just me, sublime text, a terminal window, and renoise—the main benefit of renoise being the ability to have a buffer as a scratch track!

It's strange though to be talking to people on other forums about say, drum n bass production, and knowing that one could just as easily sculpt a sound with a few cdp processes as one could with a series of plugins in a DAW. I think the only thing that might excite me more is a max 7 front-end, just to have everything in one environment.

cdp reminds me of something like nethack—it doesn't look as pretty, but there's still a depth to it that is unrivaled by anything else i've seen, regardless as how 'pretty' something else might seem.