On the interoperability side, I have been working for two years on an OSC based protocol to ease inter-application communication (easy discovery of apps and features, method signatures, easy to subscribe to signal slots, remote update, etc). The OSCit project (http://rubyk.org/oscit) and library is slowly stabilizing (there is even a wiki to discuss decisions: http://xdif.wiki.ifi.uio.no/OSC_Plug_And_Play). I'll probably move oscit from UDP to zeromq for reliability and size of messages.
I can start the Impromptu war: it's for the elite who can afford a high end, newest mac laptop. Want to be stuck eating bad hyped apples all your life, go ahead ! On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Kassen <[email protected]>wrote: > >> A seething vi/emacs like religious war - no, nothing that exciting >> really - I had a beer with Andrew Sorenson once... >> >> A paid beer to have some free speech or a free beer to shut up ? Or just penguin alcohol (homebrew, no cost, will make you sick) ? ;-) I read ChucK fluently, way faster than I can (currently...) read Scheme and > I don't get all of it but *still* I find Sorenson's performance videos some > of the most compelling viewing in all of the scene. In particular he is able > to create longer performances that stay coherent and engaging; I have a huge > admiration for his work. Agreed. > What appeals less to me is that it looks like Impromptu is > most concerned -on the audio side- with controlling external synths over > MIDI or some plugin interface. This may have changed; I think I heard about > them including a synthesis engine? Impromptu can tweak sound through some JIT compilation of scheme inside custom audio units (uses LLVM).
