> I want to ask whether snd-ruby has same > possibilities as guile version? I suppose there is nothing like > rt_compile in my snd-ruby; also I wonder if something like snd-ls is > achievable with ruby? Or 3D spectrogram from the manual (grfsnd.html)? > > Main question is: if I stay with ruby (which is IMHO easier to > understand) won't I miss any functionality? What with connection to > cm/cmn?
Mike Scholz is the expert, but I can make a few vague comments. The 3D graphics only depends on opengl -- the picture in grfsnd.html was made using the transform dialog and the two color/orientation dialogs. Most of the scheme stuff exists in ruby, so I don't think you'll find any missing functionality, and having active ruby-snd users will certainly help us find any we've missed! cm is currently scheme/lisp specific, but I think the cmn section that Snd uses does work -- the music notation symbols are in musglyphs.rb. I don't think rt-compile exists for ruby, but there was an "inline" package of some kind that Mike made for sndlib/clm. I personally use scheme, mainly out of lumpish habit -- I've been writing lisp code for about 3 decades, so it has become second nature. But Mike and I do want the other two versions of Snd (Forth and Ruby) to be just as useful, so I'd encourage you to go ahead. _______________________________________________ Cmdist mailing list [email protected] http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist
