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Brad Fuller-2
Hi Ken,

You can play mp3 files within Squeak, and ogg is now available in
Etoys, but I'm not that familiar with the inclusion.
OSC is available in squeak
(http://map.squeak.org/package/61f807be-83a3-4944-bfa1-686ddac7153c
<http://map.squeak.org/package/61f807be-83a3-4944-bfa1-686ddac7153c>)
so you can interface with programs like SuperCollider which is what
Cesare Marilungo is doing..
(http://www.cesaremarilungo.com/sw/supercollider-morphs-for-squeak
<http://www.cesaremarilungo.com/sw/supercollider-morphs-for-squeak>)
Stéphane Rollandin has create µO
(http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/squeak/sqgeo.htm
<http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/squeak/sqgeo.htm>). I don't know the
current state. Maybe Cesare and Stéphane can give us an update. Craig
Latta had done some work with midi, but I don't think it's integrated
into the main image. Craig?

(I'm forwarding your email to the SqueakAudio mailing list.)


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From: Kenneth Sherwood <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>>
Date: Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:35 PM
Subject: [Newbies] audio query
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As a writer and non-programmer (high school Fortran in 1986) who has
used out-of-the-box tools such as flash and dreamweaver, I've just
begun teaching myself Squeak--which was recommended by a hypertext
writer/aquaintence Jim Rosenberg.  My interest is in building
interactive text / audio projects and live-art-performance tools in a
user-defined workspace apart from the constraints/habits associated
with Flash and Director, and without the platform dependence and
proprietary concerns.  I've gathered what seem to be the "classic"
beginner texts: Squeak: Learn Programming with Robots, Squeak: A Quick
Trip to ObjectLand, and Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia
Application (Guzdial).
Can anyone speak to the multimedia potential of Squeak and/or its
likely development trajectory, especially with regard to audio? The
midi tools and synthesis look promising, but as I've mostly worked
with recorded voices, I was worried to see no apparent support for
compressed audio. Most of my searching in the news-groups has turned
up dead-ends, like the tool called "Siren" that is now written for a
different smalltalk dialect. I see the Guzdial now seems to be
publishing books on Python and Java as "multimedia" languages, and I
sense much development work must be going into Croquet.

So in short, can someone with experience using squeak in a multi-media
presentational format, especially audio, reassure me that what will be
the somewhat steeper learning curve (for a self-taught,
non-programmer) will pay off?

Many thanks...
Ken

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Re: [Newbies] audio query

Stéphane Rollandin
Brad Fuller
> Stéphane Rollandin has create µO
> (http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/squeak/sqgeo.htm
> <http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/squeak/sqgeo.htm>). I don't know the
> current state. Maybe Cesare and Stéphane can give us an update.

as for µO, it is still actively developped, but it is not oriented
towards interactive performance nor video at all. it is mainly intended
for non real-time composition, with an emphasis on MIDI and Csound and
no specific support for compressed audio or synthesis. not what is
wanted, then...

Stef
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