Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

2006-06-16 Thread Albert Graef
Alfons Adriaensen wrote: After the LAC presentation I already had a look of course, and yes it looks like something I might like. But it will have to wait until I manage to finish a few other things... Yes, I'm voting for making the day 0x24 hours! -- Dr. Albert Gr"af Dept. of Music-Informat

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

2006-06-16 Thread Alfons Adriaensen
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:07:35PM +0200, Albert Graef wrote: > This is hard to get right for low-level DSP programming because > efficiency is of utmost importance, but I think that Faust does this > pretty well. The only roadblock right now is that it is not suitable for > multirate processin

[linux-audio-dev] Re: Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

2006-06-15 Thread Kjetil S. Matheussen
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: "David Cournapeau": On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 07:47:36AM +0200, Alex Polite wrote: Hi there. Is it possible to write LADSPA plugins in anything but C/C++? I prefer perl, ruby or python. alex Anything but C/C++, yes. See FAUST [1], a compiled

[linux-audio-dev] Re: Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

2006-06-15 Thread Kjetil S. Matheussen
"David Cournapeau": On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 07:47:36AM +0200, Alex Polite wrote: Hi there. Is it possible to write LADSPA plugins in anything but C/C++? I prefer perl, ruby or python. alex Anything but C/C++, yes. See FAUST [1], a compiled language designed specificly for processing audio

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

2006-06-15 Thread Albert Graef
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 08:53:11AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: faust, btw, has no concept of a timeline in the sense that chuck does. No, that's right. As I pointed out elsewhere in this thread, Faust is a language for programming ugens, not for managing sequences and playlists. We're talking ab

[linux-audio-dev] Re: Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

2006-06-15 Thread lazzaro
[feel free to redistribute this posting to other mailing lists] On Jun 15, 2006, at 6:56 AM, Paul Winkler wrote: And, is all the sfront / saol action happening somewhere that I'm not aware of? I was always disappointed that there didn't seem to be a lively community around saol. No, the M

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

2006-06-15 Thread Alfons Adriaensen
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 08:53:11AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 16:32 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: > > I am in no way as experienced as most people on this list for audio > > programming, but I don't see why C/C++ should be the only way to write > > software to handle audio s

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

2006-06-15 Thread Paul Davis
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 16:32 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote: > I am in no way as experienced as most people on this list for audio > programming, but I don't see why C/C++ should be the only way to write > software to handle audio stream, neither do I see why GC would be the > only useful feature. Fo

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

2006-06-15 Thread David Cournapeau
On 6/15/06, Kjetil S. Matheussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Phil Frost: > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Writing LADSPA plugins in high level > language? > To: The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >

[linux-audio-dev] Re: Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

2006-06-14 Thread Kjetil S. Matheussen
Steve: I think this is a worthwhile topic actually... There is currently a shortage of interest in developing good alternative NATIVE machine-language-compiled languages. Although I have been programming C/C++ for a long time, I have lately been getting into Python and I really like it... Reall

[linux-audio-dev] Re: Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

2006-06-14 Thread Kjetil S. Matheussen
Phil Frost: Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language? To: The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 07:47:36AM +0200, Alex Polite wrote: Hi the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

2006-06-14 Thread Pablo Faundez Hoffmann
On Jun 14, 2006, at 8:07 AM, Loki Davison wrote: On 6/14/06, Alex Polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there. Is it possible to write LADSPA plugins in anything but C/C++? I prefer perl, ruby or python. alex -- Alex Polite http://flosspick.org - finding the right open source quick, ea

[linux-audio-dev] Re: Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

2006-06-14 Thread Loki Davison
On 6/14/06, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 07:47 +0200, Alex Polite wrote: > Hi there. > > Is it possible to write LADSPA plugins in anything but C/C++? I prefer > perl, ruby or python. How do you do realtime in an interpreted language? How can you guarantee the int

[linux-audio-dev] Re: Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

2006-06-13 Thread Loki Davison
On 6/14/06, Alex Polite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there. Is it possible to write LADSPA plugins in anything but C/C++? I prefer perl, ruby or python. alex -- Alex Polite http://flosspick.org - finding the right open source quick, easy answer, no. Longer answer, no, but why anyway? Even