Re: [linux-audio-dev] soft synth as a plugin

[David Gerard Matthews]

Steve Harris wrote:

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 08:34:20 +0100, nick wrote:

indeed, for a plugin soft-synth, it would only ever make sense to write
it in c/c++ or assembler really, a question of speed. Are there really
people who seriously want to write a synth in aynthing else?

Of course, plenty of MacOS audio software is written in Max/MSP (a
relative of pd). There is also some Windows software written in Sync -
both are graphical languages.

- Steve

Although all the actual DSP objects themselves in MSP are written in C, just like
in pd and jMax. I don't know about Sync (don't know much about it), but I suspect
that to also be the case there as well. The point is that all the actual number
crunching code is in fact written in C, even if you use a very high-level object-oriented
graphical language like Max/MSP to build the app.
OTOH, CLM is written in Lisp, (hence the name), and some modern Lisps (i.e. CMUCL)
claim to be as fast as C for floats. So I suppose you could write DSP code in Lisp if you
really wanted to.
-dgm