Greetings lurkers. Up-front: apologies for hijacking the thread :)
Without having spent time looking at the source code for tidal or other Haskell-based music-making tools (excuse my ignorance already :)) I was carrying around this question with me for a while. While its quite technical I think its appropriate to ask here. Last year I wrote a little music sequencer in Scheme, partly because it was needed in an installation I was working on with a friend (see http://sonicrobots.com/ for an impression), and in my sheer boundless naivete I just went ahead and dove right in, without really considering that the choice of language was rather poor for the task. I used Chicken Scheme for this, a really nice little implementation with quite a rich ecosystem (and incidentally developed by a guy from my hometown, Göttingen, yay :)). The main program received messages from a webserver process in NodeJS (for the SocketIO part) and some simple low-level midi output code. Once there was a bit of traffic the entire program would stall, likely caused by blocking IO and/or GC. The question I have is: how does scheduling software in Haskell circumvent inaccuracies caused by GC? Is that an issue at all, and/or how would I approach writing such software with soft real-time scheduling guarantees in Haskell? I don't know much (yet) about how GC works in ghc, so its on my todo, but maybe somebody here has a quick and dirty explanation how it could work. Anyways, in the end, I used an obvious choice for the installation, sclang, and it worked great (from a raspi). :) Best, Karsten Quoting alex (2014-04-12 09:02:45) > Hi all, > > I thought some of you might be entertained to see Haskell making music in > Amsterdam (in Dutch and some English): > http://motherboard.vice.com/nl/read/algorave-coden-in-de-club > > and in London (in French): > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_NQKPH91kM > > There's a few more recent interviews etc here: > http://yaxu.org/interviews-etc/ > > Take care > > alex > -- > > Read the whole topic here: Haskell Art: > http://lurk.org/r/topic/7q2JkF1Bi3FAxZZKEQlvoD > > To leave Haskell Art, email haskell-...@group.lurk.org with the following > email subject: unsubscribe ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░░k...@ioctl.it░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░░http://ioctl.it░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░░0049░(0)░176 619 95110░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ -- Read the whole topic here: Haskell Art: http://lurk.org/r/topic/7aYbXFCw2RFNH0nCMnx8MI To leave Haskell Art, email haskell-...@group.lurk.org with the following email subject: unsubscribe
