[sdiy] Learning electronics now - was Real cause of DIY death

[Richard Wentk]

At 16:25 19/07/2005, jbv wrote:

> >
> > Imagine creating computer synthesized music that way, or worse yet,
> > having to rely upon nightly batch processing with the punched cards.
>
>I had a similar experience in the early 80's, when using
>Music V on a PDP11... used to start sound synthesis in
>the evening, and was able to hear the result the next morning...

You still get this with computer animation. One project I worked on 
recently took three weeks of 24/7 rendering to produce a two minute video 
sequence.

Some of the more extreme things you can do with CSOUND can take a while too.

Richard