[racket] Small Racket-embedded dataflow DSP language

From: John Clements (clements at brinckerhoff.org)
Date: Thu May 30 17:30:40 EDT 2013

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.

John



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