Improving Squeak's Multimedia - additional opinion

Brad Fuller brad at sonaural.com
Fri Feb 25 22:41:45 UTC 2005


Stéphane Rollandin wrote:

> Bob.Cowdery at CGI-Europe.com wrote:
>
>> I would love to see some real audio streaming and DSP capability in 
>> Squeak.
>> My interest is Software Radio which requires full duplex audio streamed
>> through DSP routines. I have written such code in 'C', 'C#' and 
>> Python using
>> PortAudio and a mixture of libraries and home grown code. The 
>> reference to
>> overlap-add FFT framework is something that figures in most radios as 
>> well
>> as frequency domain filtering. I don't really know where to start with
>> Squeak however as I have only played with Smalltalk. Would it be easy 
>> to do
>> a PortAudio binding or is that the wrong place to start. Would DSP be 
>> too
>> slow in ST? A software radio framework in Squeak would be really neat.
>> Anyone willing to give me a starter for 10?
>
>
>
> The csound developers are busy working on csound5 (GPL) which provides 
> an API making it easy (well, not for me... :) to actually embed csound 
> within a scripting language. It has already be done for Python. What 
> about having a csound interface for DSP ?

I don't quite follow you, Stef. Do you mean to have csound within Squeak 
to process csound?
Why not just use csound?

Hmmm... I can see maybe a GUI to access csound... similar to MAX or 
Kyma.... that might be cool.


brad




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