I haven't set up an email list yet, but I'll try to do that today, and
let y'all know. It's weird that github doesn't have email lists, or
maybe I just haven't found them.
I'll bet the error is cause I left out the part about needing
libsndfile: you need libsndfile. There's only one thing that uses it,
but I haven't made ./configure very smart yet. Also, Ubuntu is a
pain, as it has no jack-2 package, and pretty much every audio package
depends on jack-1. I can send a diff for ubuntu-debianizing jack-2.
Maybe I should set up a ppa, though I have no idea how to do that.
A Scheme and Python front-end would be fantastic. The way it's set
up, that should be pretty easy to implement; the stuff in
ruby/cshellsynth/extra.rb is the only ruby-specific code, other than a
fairly simple linkage. Let me know what you need and we'll make this
happen.
Evan
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Vilson Vieira <vilson_at_void.cc> wrote:
> Evan, congrats!
>
> I'm trying to compile at Ubuntu Lucid but getting an error. I'll check
> properly soon. Is there any mail list to discuss?
>
> I'm thinking on using Cshellsynth as a backend to Scheme and Python scripts.
>
> Cheers.
>
> 2010/8/4 Evan Buswell <ebuswell_at_gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm new to all of this. Not new to programming and music theory and
>> such, but new to actually putting the them together to Make Something.
>> So of course, when faced with the prospect of learning a new language
>> specially suited to this purpose, and being daunted in other ways as
>> well, naturally I did what any insane person would do (and,
>> incidentally, what many livecoders seem to do from my perusal of the
>> list archives)---I took on an even bigger project and wrote my own.
>>
>> Right now, its a C synth library, using Jack on Linux, with a Ruby
>> front-end. irb is all I've figured out for interactivity on Linux,
>> but building an emacs-lisp interface shouldn't be too difficult. So
>> far, it is not terribly good for livecoding purposes. The syntax is
>> way too verbose. Also, I documented the C interface, even though I
>> expect people to use the ruby interface; that's just how my brain
>> works, I suppose. But I figured I'd release early and get feedback.
>> In particular, I am totally unsatisfied with how the sequencer object
>> works. ixilang seems to have some nice ideas that wouldn't be too
>> hard to implement. Impromptu's lisp-like callbacks may be a bigger
>> problem with slow-as-hell Ruby as well as the time synchronization
>> paradigm I'm using...
>>
>> http://ebuswell.github.com/Cshellsynth/
>>
>> Requires ruby 1.8.6 (1.9 sort of works, last I checked, but it's a Bad
>> Idea) and jack-1.95 or better. You probably will want to compile jack
>> yourself and up the maximum number of clients, as I have privileged
>> clean programming a little too far above practicality.
>>
>> Questions/comments/flames/exaltations are welcome.
>>
>> Evan
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