[MSLUG] MSLUG Digest, Vol 36, Issue 1

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Sun Feb 24 23:18:05 EST 2008


On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Adrien Pierard wrote:

> A sound synthetiser or sound processing software? With little help from 
> auto configurable hardware (say, a FPGA, iyswim), one should be able to 
> have a cheap and very efficient tool

Most realtime sound processing doesn't need specialised hardware anymore, 
and it's been like that for years. I bet you say that because you're 
trying to find a use for a Scheme-to-FPGA converter... I suggest first 
finding something that can't be done with an ordinary processor.

Even realtime video processing is getting to the point that specialised 
hardware is getting obsolete or already is.

Also, I think that the plan was for 48 hours, not 48 months...

> With code written in CPS, writing filters seems natural to implement as
> the soundflow follows it...

what kind of sound processing software do you have in mind? because, 
depending on whether you want a dataflow language or not, it can change a 
lot of things implementation-wise. If you plug two components in the same 
inlet, does it automatically add their outputs? Are there inlets and 
outlets at all?

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