Re: Haskell and sound (was: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted)

2004-05-08 Thread Paul Hudak
For what it's worth, SOE and Haskore provide support for reading and writing MIDI files, and for generating both score and orchestra files in csound. But there is no direct support for sound files, nor is there support for real-time MIDI. -Paul Claus Reinke wrote: (SOE's music component inc

Re: Haskell and sound (was: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted)

2004-05-07 Thread Claus Reinke
> Looking over the PortAudio specs it's good for a software processing > environment but not a lot of use to eg a game. OpenAL appears to be much > the other way round. The thing that always confused me about OpenAL (www.openal.org) is the following part of the spec: OpenAL Fundamentals O

Re: Haskell and sound (was: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted)

2004-05-07 Thread Philippa Cowderoy
On Fri, 7 May 2004, Claus Reinke wrote: > for graphics, we've got OpenGL, and a nice Haskell binding to it, > so I wonder whether there's a similar option for sound? e.g., does > anyone have experience with PortAudio/PortMusic/PortMidi? > Looking over the PortAudio specs it's good for a software

Haskell and sound (was: [Haskell-cafe] Toy application advice wanted)

2004-05-07 Thread Claus Reinke
> Sound on linux tends to center around the "jack" sound > architecture. This is a demon for connecting audio and midi gadgets the problem with os-specific solutions is that they, and code based on them, don't work on other platforms - reduces the target audience and the potential gain for anyone