Sort of obscure but not totally--the Eno connection brought some attention to it.impete wrote:Just out of interest, did any of you try Koan X? OK, I know, it was obscure and a long time ago ...
Pete
I spent a lot of years on and off with Koan Pro. I think I paid something like $250 for the license and that was in '99 (of course I was single then...) At the time I had a Mac and the Koan port was a little too clunky to use enjoyably. I wanted to do everything "inside the box" and using the MIDI-only features of Koan required me to use external synths. The built in synth ("SKME") had some cool features but was definitely unique and an acquired taste, both to program and listen to.
Noatikl is interesting, especially with the Lua connection which will hopefully open it up to people interested in creating their own programs... I did enjoy playing with it for its 30 day demo period, but the licensing cost, while relatively reasonable, is going to keep me away from it for a while.
Not to try to subvert Intermorphic's business model, but I have really found a lot of interesting aspects to the ChucK system (http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu). It is a different beast from noatikl, but being free makes up for a myriad of limitations...