Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] soft synth as a plugin
From: David Gerard Matthews (dgm4+@pitt.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 19 2002 - 18:55:09 EEST
Steve Harris wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 08:34:20 +0100, nick wrote:
>
>>indeed, for a plugin soft-synth, it would only ever make sense to write
>>it in c/c++ or assembler really, a question of speed. Are there really
>>people who seriously want to write a synth in aynthing else?
>>
>
>Of course, plenty of MacOS audio software is written in Max/MSP (a
>relative of pd). There is also some Windows software written in Sync -
>both are graphical languages.
>
>- Steve
>
Although all the actual DSP objects themselves in MSP are written in C,
just like
in pd and jMax. I don't know about Sync (don't know much about it), but
I suspect
that to also be the case there as well. The point is that all the
actual number
crunching code is in fact written in C, even if you use a very
high-level object-oriented
graphical language like Max/MSP to build the app.
OTOH, CLM is written in Lisp, (hence the name), and some modern Lisps
(i.e. CMUCL)
claim to be as fast as C for floats. So I suppose you could write DSP
code in Lisp if you
really wanted to.
-dgm
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