[LAD] Something like Processing for audio

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Emanuel Rumpf hat gesagt: // Emanuel Rumpf wrote:

> 2008/9/29 nescivi <nescivi at gmail.com>:
> > If the computer (or maybe rather computation) becomes your instrument of
> > choice to make music, you have to understand how it works.
> > That takes learning too.
> 
> The question here is: what to learn?
> I would not expect a musican to learn programming
> in order to record audio nor a synth-sound developer
> to learn dsp coding technics.

If we're talking about a "Processing" for audio, then programming is
exactly what the users of such a tool want to learn. They just like
their programming to be less of a chore, i.e. they want Python or Lua
instead of C++ and maybe blocks and patchcords instead of vi/Emacs.

_From my experience with giving some workshops in this area I believe
that a growing number of artists is looking for software that allows
them to build their own specific tools. They are not frightend to learn
certain algorithms and how to deal with technical issues as long as
these issues are "art related". They actually like thinking about things
like DSP algorithms for sound and video, but they don't want to think
about device drivers and freeing memory (too much).

Ciao
-- 
Frank