I'm not sure who ever said "if you want to make music on a computer, learn DSP programming".
Making music has many different approaches, and potentially lots of different stages that can be permuted, combined, discarded, repeated. Composition, performance, timbral adjustments, editing, mixing ...
That said, tools like PureData and Max/MSP are not there just to do DSP. Consider this lovely example of generative music that has almost no DSP going on whatsoever - the entire patch is focused on composition:
That said, if you wanted to make music that sounds like Fleetwood Mac or Taylor Swift or Duke Ellington, then computer tools are probably not where you should start (though may be where you end up).
That's a really interesting piece you linked, thanks, and very impressive. I'm almost embarrassed to admit I could have mistaken (a couple of minutes of) it for some Sun Bear period Keith Jarrett! I couldn't make out how the piano sound itself is produced. Samples, I suppose, rather than some Pianoteq type modeling?
I don't know what is being used for sound generation. I don't know Max all that well, but blowing the video up to full screen, it looked to me as if it only generates MIDI. If that's correct, then I suspect either one of the modern sample-based pianos or pianoteq.
Making music has many different approaches, and potentially lots of different stages that can be permuted, combined, discarded, repeated. Composition, performance, timbral adjustments, editing, mixing ...
That said, tools like PureData and Max/MSP are not there just to do DSP. Consider this lovely example of generative music that has almost no DSP going on whatsoever - the entire patch is focused on composition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy-Ahm0j1CU
That said, if you wanted to make music that sounds like Fleetwood Mac or Taylor Swift or Duke Ellington, then computer tools are probably not where you should start (though may be where you end up).