> Chuck, supercollider, and csound are all open source text based audio
> environments that support ladspa and midi, and different degrees of
> real-time change in your synth setup. Supercollider is probably the
> most flexible, chuck is probably the simplest to jump into, and csound
> is the most mature and most efficient cpu-usage wise, and has reams of
> existing synth code to look at for examples, and the largest variety
> of obscure or cutting edge synthesis generators, but it is not as
> comfortable for real time synth building as the other two (it expects
> you to design all your synths in "unreal" time, then control them via
> midi or osc or whatever later, while the others allow modifying or
> adding synth units or side chains while your synths are running). All
> three are multi-platform and can interact with other instances over a
> network, if you ever wanted to make a beowulf synth, or just try using
> them all working together at once. If you can get over some aspects of
> csound's design that are tied to it's 1984(?) vintage and musicN
> lineage (calling synth units "opcodes", having "orchestra" and "score"
> files, the not-quite-real-time design cycle etc), it is a hard audio
> environment to beat.
>
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Julien Claassen wrote:
>
>> Hi Josh!
>> Ecasound doesn't understand NOTE ON/NOTE OFF. Quel dommage. It can read MIDI
>> controllers like a modwheel or some other knob. So you could do it more
>> Theremin fashion. :-)
>> It is true that ecasound now understands the ALSA sequencer API, but only
>> for sending MID start/stop events and for reading controllers. It would be
>> good if ecasound supported at least simple note on note off, but I think this
>> would still mean, that there's a lot to do. :-(
>> Kindest regards
>> Julien
>>
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