georg
Georg, a project named after quickly skimming over the wikipedia entry for Faust, is a journey in understanding the tensions and tradeoffs in creative tooling.
In its initial form, its mostly a ‘hello noise signal’ example of building an executable that you can connect over slime (via ECL) and play a noise (via jackaudio (via faust).
My plan is to make some lisp veneers for generating faust syntax, put a wig over my laptop, and manage said laptop as a music act.
build
There is a nix file within the cxx folder. If you have nixpkgs installed, calling nix-shell within that directory and `make`ing will build an executable called `kiss`.
run
Starting the executable will start a swank repl. I currently use emacs slime to connect to said repl. Look at `scratch.lisp` for an example of the exposed commands.
dev
NOTE: I am currently experimenting with using c-mera and cm-ifs to generate CC files. To make matters more annoying, I have built my own patch on c-mera that exposes a couple other lisp systems for use when generating files.
If you want to dev against the lisp, you need to build c-mera exposed with cm-ifs and metabang-bind and line it up with your PATH environment. I am fully aware this is janky and will work to make things more uniform in future commits.
In that vein, for simplicity’s sake, I am committing the generated files along with the lisp code used to generate it.
about pieces
FAUST:
FAUST (Functional Audio Stream) is a functional programming language specifically designed for real-time signal processing and synthesis. FAUST targets high-performance signal processing applications and audio plug-ins for a variety of platforms and standards.
Embedded Common Lisp
ECL (Embeddable Common-Lisp) is an interpreter of the Common-Lisp language as described in the X3J13 Ansi specification, featuring CLOS (Common-Lisp Object System), conditions, loops, etc, plus a translator to C, which can produce standalone executables.