Re: [music-dsp] Moselle Alpha 0.1.3 Released

2014-01-13 Thread Frank Sheeran
Hi Risto, > Is this just a limitation of the current version? The original plan was for Moselle to be limited to patching between modules--but to be the best within this narrow niche. It wasn't a goal to do 1) composition, 2) module design (eg, build novel filters and oscillators from scratch) o

Re: [music-dsp] Moselle Alpha 0.1.3 Released

2014-01-13 Thread Nigel Redmon
According to the wisdom of XKCD, "Functional programming combines the flexibility and power of abstract mathematics with the intuitive clarity of abstract mathematics." ;-) On Jan 13, 2014, at 3:51 PM, Risto Holopainen wrote: >> http://moselle.invisionzone.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-18-sampl

Re: [music-dsp] Moselle Alpha 0.1.3 Released

2014-01-13 Thread Risto Holopainen
> http://moselle.invisionzone.com/index.php?/blog/1/entry-18-sample-module/ > > A quick question for you is that with your obvious expertise, can you > follow these at all? I don't know very much functional programming and find it a bit difficult to guess what the code is doing, even knowing w

Re: [music-dsp] Square-summability for the ideal low pass filter

2014-01-13 Thread Dave Gamble
Didnt mean to start a religious war. ASCII, latex, whatever, same deal. Anything that can be read in the body of the email be anyone. Attachments struck me as lazy. Correct me on my maths, not my hasty advice regarding how to write emails that are likely to be understood here. Consider my suggesti

Re: [music-dsp] Moselle Alpha 0.1.3 Released

2014-01-13 Thread Frank Sheeran
> Actully, I have basically the same question. Have you > evaluated/investigated Common Lisp Music > (https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/clm/clm.html)? A couple of > years ago I took a course in Nyquist > (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~music/nyquist/), which I believe is based on > Lisp. I found Nyq

Re: [music-dsp] Moselle Alpha 0.1.3 Released

2014-01-13 Thread Frank Sheeran
> This question has probably come up before: How does your language > compare to FAUST? Hi Thomas, Thank you for your interest. Your questions alone have already taught me a lot. Since you know FAUST well, and Moselle's hopefully easy to read, maybe a quick glance at this example would tell you

Re: [music-dsp] Moselle Alpha 0.1.3 Released

2014-01-13 Thread Bill Schottstaedt
> (https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/clm/clm.html) I haven't worked much on the common lisp version of clm in the last 10 years -- Rick Taube (Common Music, Grace) and I moved to scheme (another language in the lisp family). So the up-to-date reference is: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/softwa

Re: [music-dsp] Square-summability for the ideal low pass filter

2014-01-13 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On 1/13/14 11:50 AM, Charles Z Henry wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Dave Gamble wrote: Don't post MS word files to the list. Learn latex notation and use it as plain text. Any replies you get will be latex style, as is mine below. oh? I do agree that MS word files would be hard to

Re: [music-dsp] Square-summability for the ideal low pass filter

2014-01-13 Thread Charles Z Henry
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Dave Gamble wrote: > Hi, > > Don't post MS word files to the list. Learn latex notation and use it as > plain text. > Any replies you get will be latex style, as is mine below. > I do agree that MS word files would be hard to read for some (especially since MS li

Re: [music-dsp] Moselle Alpha 0.1.3 Released

2014-01-13 Thread Stefan Sullivan
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Thomas Strathmann wrote: > > On 13.01.14 09:46, Frank Sheeran wrote: > > At this point, the #1 goal is to evaluate the language itself. Is a > > functional, textual, programming language the best way to design a > > patch? Better than Csound, better than visual e

Re: [music-dsp] Moselle Alpha 0.1.3 Released

2014-01-13 Thread Thomas Strathmann
On 13.01.14 09:46, Frank Sheeran wrote: > At this point, the #1 goal is to evaluate the language itself. Is a > functional, textual, programming language the best way to design a > patch? Better than Csound, better than visual environments like Buzz > or Cycling '74's Max? Can I write a patch in

Re: [music-dsp] Square-summability for the ideal low pass filter

2014-01-13 Thread Dave Gamble
Hi, Don't post MS word files to the list. Learn latex notation and use it as plain text. Any replies you get will be latex style, as is mine below. H_lp(e^iw) =1 for |w| Ref: Pg 78, DIscrete-time Signal Processing, 2nd ed. > Oppenheim, Schafer

Re: [music-dsp] Moselle Alpha 0.1.3 Released

2014-01-13 Thread Frank Sheeran
Hi, Would you say the emphasis of the software you're making is on the structure of the algorithms, or more on the sound quality at the output ? There are a lot of "blocks" available in general, as a good example the freely available open source Ladspa plugins, did you think of using those, and di