Re: [q-lang-users] Just starting with Q

[Burton S. <kr...@gm...>]

On 8/25/06, Albert Graef <Dr....@t-...> wrote:
> Burton Samograd wrote:
> > Music is one of the forms of art that I do that is getting the most
> > attention lately
>
> The nickname kruhft rings a bell, but I don't recall whether I saw it in
> a music context or maybe on LtU... I'll have a look, thanks for the pointer.

I do post on LtU from time to time when I know enough about something
to actually have something to say, but my schooling was in Computer
Engineering and my work experience was video eames (a lot of 8 bit
assembly on the Gameboy and lot low level C coding) so my vocabulary
is a bit lacking when it comes to high level language topics.  My
study of computational linguistics has been an obsessive hobby for the
past years (I like to say my own version of self directed grad
school), but I think I've got a lot of the bases covered from what
I've found, read, and studied over the years.

> Regarding the audio stuff, one project that I'm still working on is an
> improved interface to Faust and SuperCollider, which (1) handles all the
> grunt work of loading Faust DSP plugins into SuperCollider and (2)
> provides a high-level control interface similar to SuperCollider's own,
> but written 100% in Q. I hope that I can still finish this before ICMC.
> The current interfaces to Faust and SuperCollider in the Q-Faust and
> Q-Synth packages are already quite usable, however, and they should let
> you do pretty much any high-fidelity, low-latency, realtime audio
> processing that you want (provided you have enough CPU power).

I know about SC, but for some reason I've avoided it since I found it
years ago, probably because I found the sytax very non-familiar at the
time.  I've used a number of other MIDI/DSP langugage system like
KeyKit, PD, Chuck and Common Lisp Music for my works in the past and I
read the docs for Faust and it looks pretty useful (plus there's
builtin support for it in Audacity, which is a pretty nice audio
editor that I recently added to my toolset), so I should probably take
another look at SC and see if I can mentallly translate it bettter now
that I have some more experience with alternate langages.

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burton samograd                                                kr...@gm...
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