On Sunday, 14 February 2016 at 21:57:38 UTC, Tanel Tagaväli wrote:
This may be a pipe dream, but I want to create (with the help
of other developers, of course) a DAW using D.
The reasons are mainly:
+ The design can be very complex
+ Realtime playback is a requirement
+ You can do a lot of things with audio
It would be interesting to see how D could handle a big project
such as this.
I can't do it on my own, however.
So I'm asking, is there anyone in the D community who would be
interested in a project of this likeness?
A DAW is a major undertaking that would test the language
boundaries for sure.
The real time requirements mean that the GC is excluded.
Cockos, the makers of REAPER, have a few C libraries that could
be used, among which a solid VST wrapper and general libraries
that they use in their software.
As for audio, it's also worth having a look at the JUCE C++ lib.
