<div>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 (<a href="http://rubyk.org/oscit">http://rubyk.org/oscit</a>) and library is slowly stabilizing (there is even a wiki to discuss decisions: <a href="http://xdif.wiki.ifi.uio.no/OSC_Plug_And_Play">http://xdif.wiki.ifi.uio.no/OSC_Plug_And_Play</a>). I'll probably move oscit from UDP to zeromq for reliability and size of messages.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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 !</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Kassen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:signal.automatique@gmail.com">signal.automatique@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br>
</div>A seething vi/emacs like religious war - no, nothing that exciting<br>
really - I had a beer with Andrew Sorenson once...<br>
<br></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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) ?</div><div> </div><div>;-)</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Agreed.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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?</blockquote>
<div class="im"><br></div>Impromptu can tweak sound through some JIT compilation of scheme inside custom audio units (uses LLVM).<br><br><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div>