On Feb 25, 2005, at 23:29, Brad Fuller 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?
>
>  
>
> Bob
>  I suggested PortAudio before, and others have too. When/If v19 is  
> completed, it promises to offer some good cross-platform (most of them  
> anyway) fundamental libraries. We could start looking at v18. Which  
> version did you use and what functions did you use for your use? Maybe  
> you already have a beginning!  ;-)
>
>  DSP, in general, would be slow in Squeak -- depending of course what  
> you are doing.
>
>  Don't know if you know, but Kyma is based on ST
> http://www.symbolicsound.com/
>  which utilizes this hardware:
> http://www.symbolicsound.com/cgi-bin/bin/view/Products/Capybara

Cool! So the sounds of

- 2046
- Finding Nemo
- Master and Commander
- latest Star Wars episodes
- TXH trailer
are done with Smalltalk :-)

Interesting read:

http://www.symbolicsound.com/zzz/pub/Learn/EssaysOnSoundAndAudio/ 
Scalettiv26n4p69-82.pdf

Cheers,

Markus