[linux-audio-user] CLI synths; Was: Re: CLI vs. GUI and other Linux sound issues, was FOLKS, PAY ATTENTION TO NOTEEDIT

[Atte André Jensen]

S. Massy wrote:

> I've looked into a few synthesis languages, but, of them all, though
> csound as always seemed to me most interesting, it's also the one that's
> always seemed to me most daunting.

Really? Just tried out chuck and supercollider, and I'm back to csound.

Chuck is a really clean, nice language, but the concurrency can be 
tricky to get your head around. Plus it's quite ineffective computation 
wise,

Supercollider seems very confusing to me, esp being on linux. Startup 
dir conventions, server/client concepts, the doc comming in strange rtf 
format.

Csound admittedly has a strange, dated language at places, but that can 
mostly be worked around using #include's and #define's. The strong sides 
of csound is it very well documented, it's using clear conventions and 
it's probl the fasted one outthere. You can do deferred time, python 
stuff (didn't try it out yet) and realtime with midi, you can play 
samples in almost any format even soundfonts. And somehow I don't feel 
the thing is fighting me (which could be said about other linux 
softsynths)...

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Atte

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