On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:43:42 +0200, CK wrote: > > If you don't know SuperCollider, check www.audiosynth.com. It's the best > > audio/music programming environment/language I've ever used or even seen. > > But it's not free, as in both freedom and money. You need a Mac and 250 US$. > > that's really a problem I might buy a linux version but then again I would > much rather donate 250$ to a GNUcollider project
Same here. The reason I'm (trying) to use linux for making music is that I was tired of buggy, expensive apps I couldn't fix. Now I have buggy Free apps, I can't understand ;) But making bug reports to the developers seems to be much more effective though, I've had fixes within an hour - the best I can remember from a commercial audio app was more like 6 months. > > One question: is it legal to use the SC documentation to create the > > objects, and then > > release the code GPL'd? > > yes, as long as mr mccartney doesn't hold patents on some algorithms that > a free implementation might come up with when trying to imitate sc's be- > haviour (and you don't disassemble) I had a quick flick thorugh the docs, all the unit generators seemed pretty basic. Certainly none of the were patentable. GNUcollider would be a great language for developing (fairly inefficient) ladspa plugins... - Steve