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[news] Puredata Études of Joaquín Mendoza
From:: http://www.atfws.com/etudes.html
These studies were created using just PD, and what you are listening was recorded directly from it, with no added EQ or effects.
[news] FP Quarks from Miguel Negrao for Supercollider
From author:
Hi
I’m officially releasing the FP quark. It contains an assortment of Functional Programming related bits of code:
- Type Classes – From the help:
This is an experimental implementation of Haskell style type classes for supercollider. The library relies heavilly on the concepts of Monad, Functor, Applicativer Functor, etc, so it is advised to read up on these topics. A good source ishttp://learnyouahaskell.com/. The library is also very much inspired by ScalaZ: https://github.com/scalaz/scalaz
SC is a dynamic language, it does not have typed functions, therefore this adaptation of the Haskell type classes, which as the name suggests, rely on types, might not always make sense. The type classes are implemented using dictionary look ups for the correct function to use. This might introduce a bit of overhead, so use with caution, specially for large data structures or when repeating the same function evaluation many time per second.Type instances for your own classes should be added in the initClass method. Have a look at EventSource to see how to do it.
- Functional Reactive Programming Library – EventStreams and Signals. Very useful for dealing with events and propagation of change in all sorts of contexts such as with controllers (Modality library), GUIs, etc. See the overview help file.
- “I.d” an alias for the identity function and “Unit” a data type to be used as the return value by functions that perform side-effects and don’t return any value.
- Option data type, i.e, Some(3) or None (equivalent to Just 3 or Nothing in Haskell).
- IO monad – for the brave souls wishing to go into pure functional programming.
- For comprehensions – as seen in scala. Unfortunately we can’t have the nice syntax of scala, so it’s of limited (no ?) use.
I plan to add soon an immutable collection based on FingerTrees which gives good performance for searching for items in the middle of the list, cutting and joining the list, etc (compared to an immutable list implemented in sclang) while always returning a new collection (never mutating anything). Unfortunately because it’s completely coded in sclang it is 1000x slower then an array for some operations. To be used only with small arrays in non time sensitive situations.
best,
Miguel Negrão
Quarks repo: http://quarks.sourceforge.net/
Supercollider 3.5 out
From: http://supercollider.sourceforge.net/2012/supercollider-35-released/
SuperCollider is a programming language and environment for real-time audio synthesis and processing.
Our next major release, SuperCollider version 3.5 is now out! It contains many new features and bugfixes – major highlights are new help system, a new cross-platform gui and a new multiprocessor-aware audio-synthesis server. for details, please consult the `News in 3.5′ section of the new help system, which can be found online at:http://doc.sccode.org/Guides/News-3_5.html
source tarballs:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Source/3.5.0/SuperCollider-3.5.0-Source.tar.bz2osx installer:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Mac%20OS%20X/3.5.0/SuperCollider-3.5.0-OSX-x86.dmgwindows installer (should be used with gedit [1]):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/supercollider/files/Windows/3.5.0/SuperCollider-3.5.0-win32.exe/downloadthanks a lot to everyone that has been involved in this release!
[1] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/gedit/2.30/gedit-setup-2.30.1-1.exe
[news] Mike Moser-Booth Puredata Library
From: https://github.com/dotmmb/mmb
This a library of general abstractions for PureData. Includes things like:
-Various filters and biquad coefficient generators.
-Bandlimited oscillators.
-Complex math operators.
-File browser (only tested on OSX, likely won’t work on Windows).
-Mixer strips.
-A nice, flexible spectrogram.
-Interactive waveform display.
-State-saving/preset management stuff.
-Compressor and distortion effects.
…and a few other things.
I believe most of these are vanilla-friendly, but to use the entire library you will need Pd-extended 0.42.5 or later (haven’t tested earlier versions).
Also, sorry for all the “.mmb”s added to the end of everything. I did that before I found out about namespaces and was just releasing individual abstractions here and there. And I’ve been too lazy to fix them all.
Mike Moser-Booth
<mmoserbooth@gmail.com>
