Re: [LAD] basic in-game audio synthesis api?

What about using an external program like Pd or ChucK to design your sounds, and just talk to the sound engine using OSC? (Hm, yes this does seem like my answer for everything these days...) Anyways, you can run a Pd patch for example without the GUI, or a lot of the effects you mention are built into ChucK or SuperCollider as well. I find it nice to be able to separate this stuff out of a program and have it running in another process, particularly if it's going to conflict with a game loop, and allows you to design nice audio routines without worrying about headache-inducing system-level technical details. The main disadvantage of course is having to distribute source files for the audio that aren't compiled into the main executable. Not sure if that's really a disadvantage though, it depends on your intentions. (For instances many games have tons of extra data files anyways.) Another idea: if you really want to do this in C, and already using SDL to deal with sound output, but are still looking for a higher-level solution, you could use FAUST to generate C++ code which is actually not too hard to convert to C. (FAUST mostly just generates a single C++ class with a single audio routine that manipulates some arrays and floating-point numbers.) Steve On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:50 PM, james morris <james(a)jwm-art.net> wrote: