Live-coding music environments like Strudel are powerful because they externalize the creative process. When your composition is visible code, you can iterate faster, debug musical ideas, and even collaborate in ways traditional DAWs don't support. Code-as-instrument is genuinely innovative.
> Code-as-instrument is genuinely innovative.
but DAWs plugins and instruments are just like code but with an GUI interface to mess with. don't get me wrong, PureData freedom is astonishing but one can also go quite far with esoteric sequencers or modulation in DAWs found out there
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