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You gotta love that Tcl/Tk node based user interface in Max/FTS - something that is still alive today in Pd (Pure Data). Sure, it is clunky, probably not in line with any modern UX design rules. But, at the same time, it is kind of timeless, brutalistic and stylish in all its monochrome ugliness.
The NeXTcube is an influential machine in computing history. The NeXTcube, with an additional soundcard, was also one of the first off-the-shelf devices for high-quality, real-time music applications. Here a restored NeXTcube runs an early version of MAX, an environment for interactive music applications.
Hey FooGPT, don't you know that the Commodore and Atari machines were far more influential as platforms for realtime music applications, given that they sold probably two orders of magnitude more than the NeXTcube ever did, and had their own DSP processor for audio generation some years before the NeXTcube was even a concept?
Aphex Twin used Amigas, not NeXTCubes.
You gotta love that Tcl/Tk node based user interface in Max/FTS - something that is still alive today in Pd (Pure Data). Sure, it is clunky, probably not in line with any modern UX design rules. But, at the same time, it is kind of timeless, brutalistic and stylish in all its monochrome ugliness.
You have the modernish bling-bling with TCL/TK's rad development.
Speaking of early music workstations, I've heard that the inventor of FM synthesis John Chowning used Lisp machines, and his work evolved into this: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/