I would like to build an additive synth on Racket, but I can't decide myself wether I should use SuperCollider, Rsound or Fluxus.
SuperCollider I've used already with Sclang and Haskell, and I admire it's efficiency, but it has some quirks I dislike (like the order of execution of UGENs). I tried a Racket client (https://github.com/quakehead/racket-schttps://github.com/quakehead/racket-sc) but it doesn't compile, apparently a minor error in the code or some change that made it backwards incompatible, but since I don't understand the context, I wouldn't know how to fix. Plus, it seems to be completely abandoned. Then there is a R6RS cient, would I be able to use it from Racket? http://rohandrape.net/ut/rsc3-texts/html/rsc3-tutorial.html But it also seems to require Ikarus Scheme (never heard of that impl before). Then there is what seems to be a more native solution, Rsound. Does it work in a SC-like manner, with a server and a client arquitecture? Is it efficient enough for an additive synth, will I be able to run hundreds of oscillators with their own envelopes without setting my laptop on fire? Is it sufficiently mature for this project? If those boxes match, I would love to go for this one. Then there is this very interesting project, Extempore, but it's not exactly Racket. It's a Scheme interpreter with a server programmed in Xtlang, a typed Scheme with manual memory allocation. This reminded me of Typed Racket, and I wondered: would it be possible to have a #lang like Typed Racket but without GC and with manual memory allocation for similar low-level real time applications? That would be incredibly cool. And then there is Fluxus, but it seems unmantained and perhaps more specialized on 3D graphics, but I'd be happy to be wrong. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/1833dfb2-258e-4582-baef-2d4620545d10n%40googlegroups.com.
