Markus Gaelli wrote:

>
> 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
>
Kyma's been around for years. I guess it's not that well known outside 
of the sound design community.

brad