There’s a very amusing and informative post here [read the first post, scroll down to the third response] which compares and contrasts the Symbolic Sound Kyma DSP system, Cycling ’74’s Max/MSP, and Clavia’s Nord Modular synthesizers. I have quite a bit of experience with the latter two and have always been curious about the former. I can say that the writer does an excellent job of describing the pros and cons of the two that I’m familiar with, and has reawakened my curiosity in the Kyma system. (I ran across this post while trying to google up information on the new Kyma hardware; apparently the info was leaked and subsequently retracted from the blogs which posted it.)
Comparing Kyma, Max/MSP, and the Nord Modular
