A thing I like is the patchable modules, which you can do in Renoise, Bidule & Audiomulch. The way I like things is having things be fun and let daunting with technicals. Yes, I don't want Renoise to be like MAX/MSP.
I may play with an older copy of MAX/MSP in Mac OS 9 on a older PowerBook G3, provided I can run the older copy of MAX/MSP, reformat the PowerBook G3 with 9, and get the power started up on the PowerBook.
These alternatives are: Audiomulch, Bidule & Renoise. I don't have a lot of weighty reasons why I feel good about the alternatives to MAX/MSP I found. Mostly I have to try the pre-purchase versions, and then after having a few months I can find out if I'm right about loving these programs. I just think the differences between the programs means I can have reason to use all, but some of the programs allow the other programs to be hosted inside them. And I think I could use any of them to do live sets. I think I'm going to like Bidule a lot because it allows some lower-level graphical modular synthesis tinkering not allowed in the others, but not being so technical as to be daunting, like Reaktor or MAX/MSP
This is so beautiful I couldn't speak for a month. Just kidding. I hadn't been paying attention to software development @ chipmusic for this long, and look what happened.
I think there was an understandable confusion between DX7 and Genesis. The Yamaha DX7 is a 6 operator Frequency Modulation synth! The YM2612, the Yamaha TX81Z & the Yamaha FB01 are 4 operator Frequency Modulation synths. The Yamaha FS1R is a hybrid that has Formant Synthesis and can do some FM sounds.
A point which might be interesting for dicussion, why so little nostalgia for the early/mid 3d console graphics era. I am far from expert but other than Rosa Menken I cant think of anyone who has done much with it. Rosa had some awesomely creepy glitchy polygon stuff happening for little-scales 2009 blip set.
I'm glad you mentioned Rosa because I am a mega fan of that glitching polygon style!