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

[Steve Harris]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:19:35 -0400, Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:26:15AM -0700, lazzaro wrote:
> > >There are, of course, languages like SuperCollider and CSound, which
> > >ARE made for expressing audio algorithms.  However, again they are
> > >generally interpreted.
> > 
> > 
> > Sfront compiles a high-level music language (Structured Audio) to C,
> > and there's no reason in theory that audio drivers couldn't be written
> > for LADSPA. 
> 
> I remember asking you about this a couple years ago and you said
> it could be done, but you could only run one plugin instance
> at a time... .is that still the case? or am I misremembering?
> 
> 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.

Yes, me too, I wrote some code in sfront and liked it, I even went as far
as figuring out what needed to be done to remove the globals that
prevented you from running more that one plugin at once, but never did the
coding.

- Steve