[linux-audio-dev] Re: Writing LADSPA plugins in high level language?

Phil Frost:
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> On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 07:47:36AM +0200, Alex Polite wrote:
>> Hi there.
>>
>> Is it possible to write LADSPA plugins in anything but C/C++? I prefer
>> perl, ruby or python.
>>
>> alex
>
> Anything but C/C++, yes. See FAUST [1], a compiled language designed
> specificly for processing audio streams. Perl, Ruby, or Python, not
> really.
>
> [1] <http://faudiostream.sourceforge.net/>

The realtime extension for snd (scheme-like language) is another:
http://www.notam02.no/arkiv/doc/snd-rt/

Here is a cool alsa softsynth written in that system:
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kjetil/220c/
Received on Thu Jun 15 04:15:01 2006