Yes, I posted my svn repository [1] so that people would know "hey this guy does a bunch of audio stuff with python", and if they looked at some of the code they may use the word "crazy" in there aswell. The wrappers are certainly useful, for portaudio, and ladspa. They are updates of wrappers I did many years ago [2]. I could also update the libsndfile wrapper, but am happy enough with python's builtin wav file handling (although it is a bit slow). The portaudio wrapper works better for me than the pyaudio module. I callback into the python interpreter directly from the portaudio callbacks, which you are not supposed to do, but i find works well. There are a bunch of scripts (the play_* files) which are me experimenting with how to make sounds with a python/vim interface only. I have not yet found a good answer. I am considering augmenting my tools with pen and paper, or perhaps some simple gui's (pygtk). Pen and paper is difficult to beat though. I tried hard to duplicate some of AlsaModularSynth's beautiful sounds (see the play_synth_*.py files), with only limited success. The code works, but I failed to find any really good settings/patches like some of ams's example patches. Boo. But I did come up with a "patch" system that works well. Apart from making your eyes bleed trying to figure out what is connected to what. Numpy works well for banging around sample arrays. It is really easy to get started making sounds this way. (Much harder to do more interesting dsp work though.) The next thing one would like to do is create some class library for doing block by block processing. This is what is in gen.py. (Some other guy had the same idea: [3].) It would not take much to get me to clean up this code. For example, if you said "hey clean this up", I would probably do so. I do fantasize occasionally about writing a realtime GC for python. Maybe one day when my brain needs a real workout. Simon. [1] http://pythonicle.net/svn/projects/dsptools [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/dsptools/ [3] http://web.mit.edu/6.02/www/s2009/dsptools/index.html