[LAD] [ANN] FAUST 0.9.9.3 released

[Orlarey Yann]

Grame - Centre National de Creation Musicale - is pleased to announce 
the release of Faust 0.9.9.3.

Faust AUdio STreams is a powerful and expressive functional programming 
language for realtime audio signal processing. The Faust compiler 
translates DSP specifications into efficient C++ code.

A variety of platforms and plugin formats are supported. A single Faust 
specification can be used to easily generate JACK and ALSA applications, 
as well as LADSPA, MAX/MSP, PD, Q, SC and VST plugins.

In addition to C++ code, the Faust compiler can also generate SVG 
block-diagram representations as well as XML descriptions. To easily 
test the compiler before installing it, please refer to 
http://faust.grame.fr.

The Faust distribution can be downloaded at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/faudiostream

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What's new :
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- New architecture files :
    . vst2p4.cpp (VST-2.4 architecture file),
    . vsti-mono.cpp (mono VSTi synth architecture file),
    . matlabplot.cpp (architecture file to plot data in Matlab or Octave 
format).

- New scripts for a very easy generation of executable applications :
    . faust2alsa    (call the faust compiler and g++ to produce an Alsa 
application),
    . faust2jack    (call the faust compiler and g++ to produce a Jack 
application),
    . faust2plot    (call the faust compiler and g++ to produce an plot 
application),
    . faust2svg     (call the faust compiler to produce SVG block-diagrams),
    . faust2firefox,(faust2svg + display with firefox)
    . faust2octave  (faust2plot + display with octave)

- New libraries :
    . filter.lib    (Faust filters library)
    . effect.lib    (Faust effects library)

- faust2pd updated to Q 7.8,

- Improved metadata management : tags are no more limited to a 
predifined set, metadata are now reported as comments in the generated 
C++ code

- Support for new --simple-names option when drawing block-diagrams
    .

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Bugs fixed :
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- out-of-order generation of complex mutual recursions corrected

- Lexer modified to support multiplateform end of line

- Erroneous code sharing corrected

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Acknowledgments
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We are grateful to all the contributors of this new release, with 
special mentions to Albert Graef and Julius O. Smith. Keep sending us 
remarks, suggestions, bug reports and contributions.