[racket] Small Racket-embedded dataflow DSP language

From: Tom Schouten (tom at zwizwa.be)
Date: Thu May 30 20:21:14 EDT 2013

On 05/30/2013 05:30 PM, John Clements wrote:
> On May 30, 2013, at 1:21 PM, Tom Schouten wrote:
>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> Here's a tiny experimental tool I've been working on the last couple of months:
>> http://zwizwa.be/rai/rai.html
>>
>> It's mostly aimed at the music DSP world (sound synthesizers and effects) where feedback structures are very important, but it could be fairly generic in its use.  I tried to stay as close to Scheme as possible.
>>
>> The basic idea is to use Racket as replacement for Matlab, i.e. to analyze algorithms specified in a high level format, and use it to generate dependency-free C or ASM code for deeply embedded targets.
>>
>> Currently it can generate binary plugins for Windows VSTi, Pure Data and Jack Audio.
> This looks totally awesome.  Would you consider making a Racket Package out of this? My fall class could definitely be interested.


Cool :)

Here's the package:
raco pkg install github://github.com/zwizwa/rai/master
That will run all the Racket code.

For the C code gen, the Makefile is the best point of entry.
Currently Linux only, and might need some tweaking.


Cheers
Tom


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