21 Dec
2004
21 Dec
'04
10:52 a.m.
Heyall,
About one year ago, I posted here about my intention to batch-slice the Musical
Instrument Samples from the University of Iowa
(http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html) in order to turn them into the first
free orchestral multisampled instruments library (it ain't so proud as it
seems). This has been quite a hard task for a newcomer like me, so I've decided
to divide this work in progressive steps: in order to become more confident with
scripting / programming, I first wrote a bash script to batch-uncompress another
set of multisampled instruments, available freely from the Hollow Sun Studios
(http://www.hollowsun.com/), and convert each map from Akai to rgc:audio's Sfz
format (waiting for the next LinuxSampler native format ,-). Sfz runs both
under Windows and Linux, by using either vstserver / vsti or fst / jack_fst,
and works, even if it isn't freesoftware (...)! This script has been
successfuly tested on my FC1 installation and on XP with Cygwin, even if the
latter solution won't work with a single operation (needs rebooting): Cygwin
still doesn't handle well RAM access (cannot fork...) and "for" loops
aren't
that optimized for sure.
I'm not against giving a link to these early scripts, but I thought it was
better to wait for the next version.
As I'm a little picky on filenames aesthetics, my next step is to translate this
script into another language, in order to be able to parse HTML files to get
proper filenames included therein. I've been hesitating between Perl and Python
(as Frank Barknecht advised me before), because both are multi-platform and can
handle audio files, as required for the final project. Which one would best
suit? I've been programming easy student software in C/C++, if it can help.
Cheers,
Christian
21 Dec
21 Dec
11:10 a.m.
Christian Frisson wrote:
As I'm a little picky on filenames aesthetics, my
next step is to translate this
script into another language, in order to be able to parse HTML files to get
proper filenames included therein. I've been hesitating between Perl and Python
(as Frank Barknecht advised me before), because both are multi-platform and can
handle audio files, as required for the final project. Which one would best
suit? I've been programming easy student software in C/C++, if it can help.
Hooboy... the subject of many holy wars, is Perl vs Python. While my
experience is with Perl only, to me, it really seems to 6 of one and half a
dozen of the other. They are both excellent choices for scripting. If you are
already familiar with the C/C++ syntax, Perl may have the slight edge for you
since it uses much of the same operators and syntax. Perl, however, has a
reputation for becoming executable line noise. Python, on the other hand, is
more elegant and easier to read (it has the reputation of being executable
pseudo-code), and is more 'object-oriented' than Perl (although Perl does
support object-oriented programming also, in kind of a funky loose spirited way).
I'd say take a look at both languages and try to write something simple first
and see which one feels better for you.
12:01 p.m.
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:10:48 -0500, Brett McCoy
<idragosani(a)chapelperilous.net> wrote:
I'd say take a look at both languages and try to write something simple first
and see which one feels better for you.
This is great advice. Having done a fari amount of scripting work in
both languages I would have to say it really comes down to what you
are comfortable with. My personal prefernce these days leans towards
Python, but I will still bust out a small regex script in perl, just
because its so fast to write. I would sit down with a very small
subset of what you want to do, and write a script in both to see which
one works better for you.
12:28 p.m.
On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:10:48 -0500, Brett McCoy
<idragosani(a)chapelperilous.net> wrote:
>
> I'd say take a look at both languages and try to write something simple first
> and see which one feels better for you.
If you need to learn the language (Perl or Python), I'd take at least a
brief look at Ruby before deciding. I'm just starting to learn Ruby, I
spent about a month "learning" Python, and so far, there are several
things I like better in Ruby. (strings are, iiuc, mutable by default,
typing is much less of an issue (but, I don't really recall, off hand,
how much of an issue it what is Python).
Randy Kramer
1:38 p.m.
Hallo,
Brett McCoy hat gesagt: // Brett McCoy wrote:
Christian Frisson wrote:
Yes, definitely try both, and maybe Ruby and, no joke, some Lisp
dialect, too. Personally I developed a lot in Perl until I discovereed
Python, which more fits my taste and my way of thinking. If I would
have to teach someone who doesn't know how to program at all, some
programming language, then I would almost for sure do this in Python.
It's easy to get a feel for both languages, though. For learning
Python I would recommend the tutorial by Guido van Rossum, which you
can read in one afternoon. I don't know similar Perl docs anymore, but
there sure are a lot. As you write, that you know C and C++: If Perl
is more like C, than Python is more like C++. ;)
Both Perl and Python have good libraries for handling soundfiles, too.
Ciao
--
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
As I'm a little picky on filenames aesthetics,
my next step is to
translate this script into another language, in order to be able to
parse HTML files to get proper filenames included therein. I've
been hesitating between Perl and Python (as Frank Barknecht advised
me before), because both are multi-platform and can handle audio
files, as required for the final project. Which one would best
suit? I've been programming easy student software in C/C++, if it
can help.
I'd say take a look at both languages and try to write something
simple first and see which one feels better for you.
7:15 p.m.
I'll chime in on giving ruby a try too. Excellent language.
--
De gustibus non disputandum est.
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