[HLUG] SuperCollider is go...

[j michaelson]

matt,

i'd really like to see what you are doing with the supercollider thing
if you're bringing it to the next meeting.

john michaelson.






On 12/22/05, Matt Rhys-Roberts <matt.rhys-roberts at q-par.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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