28 Sep
2008
28 Sep
'08
5:31 p.m.
Paul Davis wrote:
On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 15:15 -0400, Darren Landrum
wrote:
I thought I was clear on this, but I'll restate: We need this so that
people who are not skilled coders, but have other skills, in math and
physics and electronics perhaps, can bring their skills to bear in
making synths and effects while making the coding side as painless as
possible. The end result will hopefully be synths and effects usable by
*musicians* and not just other coders. Click and play, as it were.
Really, I'm in that exact category, so I'm the last person who should be
trying to create a Processing-alike for audio. I'll probably get nowhere
by myself. Oh well, it doesn't seem to be stopping me.
I want my musical skills to be all I need to be able to make music on Linux.
-- Darren
Paul Davis wrote:
Why do we need this? Processing has wrapped a language with a lot
*less* power than
SuperCollider in a front end that is much easier to learn. Its a shame.
But it also seems to be way the world works.
So we would rather have a *more*
powerful language wrapped in a front
end that is very difficult to learn? We already have that in spades, and
it's proven a good way to scare off people with good ideas who are not
skilled in coding enough (or patient enough) to get the most basic tasks
to work.
What we need is a nice and powerful back-end that is wrapped in an
easy-to-learn front end. The best of both worlds, if it's possible.