sure, they will be back in about a week and im sure at least some will be happy to post things, will let you know when you can get at it.
On Jan 5, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Lawrence V wrote: > > > "Maybe i can post some examples of what students were able > to do in Sal after one semester not knowing any computer language at > all, its pretty remarkable. ill ask them if I can do that when they > are back after the new years." > > Hello Dr. Taube > I am studying SAL and CM now and I think it would be very > instructive to be able to study any examples you can post. > Thanks > Lawrence > > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:09:55 -0600 > From: Heinrich Taube <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [CM] Slime vs Grace (was: Arno in Grace?) > To: CMdist CM <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > > On Dec 29, 2011, at 9:07 AM, Torsten Anders wrote: > >> Dear Ralf Mattes, >> >> On 29 Dec 2011, at 11:52, [email protected] wrote: >>> To give up all these nice libraries and be locked into a stadalone >>> scheme seems a high price to pay (and, most important for me: hving >>> to give up decades uf muscular memory (emacs as an editor) is the >>> highest price I'd have to pay with Grace). > > > sheesh. I too have 30+ years of emacs; I still use it every day. But > for composition I dont feel Grace is a "high price to pay" for leaving > Emacs/Slime/CommonLisp. > > Grace's editor does have a sticky Emacs mode which covers about 90% of > the common Emacs commands including the hard stuff like moving > forward and backward by expressions(eg c-m-f) , evaluations services, > syntax highliting, syntactic indentation, and i add/fix whatever > people ask for. > > it also has "libraries": Fomus, CLM (bill's entire 30+ year code > base!), realitme OSC send/receive, SDIF, realtime MIDI send/receive, > Csound, and graphics: see the Plotter window (which can display/ > sonify multiple layers of data) and Cellular Automata windows. you can > write lisp code that generates plots, and convert plots back into lisp > code. > > its C++/Scheme framworks provides a realtime, metronome based > scheduler, lets you load Audio plugins (AU or VST), provides internal > Audiofile and Midifile players, and lets you generate audio, midi, xml > and .ly files. it runs (to the best of its ability) on three different > operating systems. > > It has tons of compositional support: patterns, spectral composition > operators, just tuning, scales and modes operators, tons of mapping > facilities. > > It has two langauges, a beautiful , fast , fully functional Scheme > (S7) with lots of CTL2-isms built in, and SAL, which is what I use to > teach with. Maybe i can post some examples of what students were able > to do in Sal after one semester not knowing any computer language at > all, its pretty remarkable. ill ask them if I can do that when they > are back after the new years. > > _______________________________________________ > Cmdist mailing list > [email protected] > http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist _______________________________________________ Cmdist mailing list [email protected] http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist
