I've been using a customized version of TinyScheme (a scheme
interpreter written in C) which has been tied directly into a C++
synthesis/scheduling engine I've been building in parallel. This
basically allows me to call C++ methods from scheme and scheme
functions from C++ (which is kinda nice for creating quasi recursive
scheme functions with precisely timed callbacks - very useful for
musical structures). I'm currently investigating extending the
synthesis/scheduling engine to support AudioUnits (both instruments
and effects) which would provide impromptu with the ability to create
AU chains and manipulate AU parameters at runtime.
I've also recently built a simple IDE (read text editor) for
impromptu (which is displayed in the picture) that does syntax
highlighting, brace matching, formatting etc. The idea is to extend
this into a collaborative editor a la subethaedit. At the moment,
impromptu supports multiple users working in the same runtime but
obviously a collaborative text editing environment would also enhance
this significantly.
It's nice to see there is so much activity in this community at the
moment. It's a shame everyone is so spread out, or maybe that's just
me in Australia :)
On 20/07/2005, at 12:15 AM, Dave Griffiths wrote:
>> On 19 Jul 2005, at 12:50, Dave Griffiths wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I've found (more or less accidently) that
>>> scheme is a very suitable language for live coding due to it's
>>> concise
>>> nature.
>> As a Lisp/Scheme hacker I think it's great that Scheme is finding
>> favour with livecoders.
>>
>
> I'm learning scheme by live coding, probably not to be recommended.
> It's
> such a ancient and beautiful language though.
>
> Bizzare how the names car and cdr originally came from the machine
> code
> instructions from one of these:
> http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/704.html
>
>
>> I am also interested to know what dialect
>> people are using
>>
>
> I use guile:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html
> It's not very good, the api is an undocumented mess.
>
>
>> and what kind of editor they are using whilst
>> coding live. I can't imagine coding Lisp without a syntax
>> highlighting editor to keep track of the parentheses, but possibly
>> I'm just a wuss. :-)
>>
>
> I wrote my own text editor, in OpenGL so it could be rendered on
> top of
> the fluxus graphics engine. Parentheses highlighting was an early
> feature
> :)
>
> cheers,
>
> dave
>
>
Received on Wed Jul 20 2005 - 08:15:22 BST