[HLUG] SuperCollider is go...

[Matt Rhys-Roberts]

Just to announce that I've finally managed to get awesome noises out of 
SuperCollider, which is basically a sound synthesis language. The 
example tutorial files alone are outstanding, but best fun of all is 
tweaking them to make your own sounds. My version of SC uses Emacs as 
the code development environment, which provides various menu items for 
controlling the language interpreter/compiler.

Getting SC to work from scratch has been the hardest part, because
a) the documentation didn't seem to have much of an 'on ramp' for 
newcomers,
b) Emacs was foreign territory to me until last week,
c) most of the demo code and application notes are in .RTF format; Emacs 
needs plaintext; RTF-to-text conversion has been painful,
d) using the preferred method of compiling SC from the CVS tree, rather 
than the 'apt-get install' way, looked relatively daunting. Will have to 
adopt CVS method as it includes all the extra bells & whistles.

Luckily, the mailing list is providing loads of help for making the most 
of it.

If anyone's interested in a demo, let me know and I can at least show 
you how to mess with the example files.

Festive wishes,

Matt Rhys-Roberts