Eric Dantan Rzewnicki: > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:55:53PM -0500, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > On 3/19/07, Atte André Jensen <atte.jensen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You could code those parts of the program in C or C++ to avoid > > memory management in the "harder" realtime portions of your > > application. With sufficiently large ringbuffers (or the like), the > > other parts can probably be written in python with some higher > > latency. Well, Python is not so bad for realtime use, since the garbage collector is referencial. Its not optimal or realtime safe in any way, but in practice it works a lot better than other languages. > > An option to consider is controlling ecasound from python. I've had a > good deal of fun building things this way in the past and hope to get > back to it this year. > > It works fairly well. The logic and configuration of your program is > fine in python ... it just sends control information to ecasound while > ecasound handles all the details of communicating with jackd. > Other python alternatives are RTcmix: http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/RTcmix/use/python.html Or SuperCollider: (Couldn't find link, but I think I remember hearing about some stuff somewhere) Or PD: http://grrrr.org/ext/py/ I'm sure there are other ways too. CSound for example.
