Does anyone know how this effect was achieved?
For the glow: duplicate the video layer, add a fast blur effect and set it to overlay or color dodge blending mode.
For the scanlines: AFX has a scanlines/cathode effect that you can tweak to re-create that look. I can't recall off the top of my head how it's done, but I can look it up if you'd like (I've done it before, while fucking around in AFX [1]).
Since we're plugging stuff we like, ChucK co-author Perry Cook's book, here: http://www.amazon.com/Real-Sound-Synthesis-Interactive-Appli... is an excellent intro to DSP and synthesis techniques.
And if you're on a Mac, Impromptu: http://impromptu.moso.com.au
I've been using emacs live for a bit. It's great. It bundles some nice plugins and has sane defaults. The cyberpunk colour scheme is cool. It has some nice personal touches on the scratch buffer.
The downside is that the structure puts far more emphasis on maintaining the structure than adapting your config. If you want to keep it solid you can't use package manager without some changes, or (configure-group).
You might get the odd issue with the bundled plugins (auto-complete loved lisp and file system traversal but hated other languages), but for a "I want to live code and I want it to WORK" config, it's bloody good.
it seems that the overtone guys want to add a visual display in the future. but most comparisions of supercollider and max/msp are mainly focused on the frontend.
is there anything i can do with max that i can't with sc besides looking pretty? (although i do prefer a nice editor to a visual thingie)
