High-Level Audio Editing Language?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jun 26, 2008, at 15:35, Arc Riley wrote:

> You could write something like that as a Python module, why a special
> language?


Domain specific first class data-types would be the best reason.   
Think series computation in Haskell.

But I could probably get the work done with a general-purpose  
language extension.  The projects that I found which were on this  
track [ugh] were typically implemented in a fast C core and offered  
bindings for the popular scripting languages.

Most of those were focused on DSP tasks, though.  This is valuable  
and would be the necessary basis for what I'm looking for.  If  
anybody just wants to do DSP work, AMaMP, ChucK, and sndObj look like  
neat projects.

A nice example of high-level language audio analysis is  
Audio::Analyzer (find it on CPAN).  Example:
   http://youtube.com/watch?v=dNGi-SZ9kGw

but it doesn't clamp into the core of the language so you're limited  
to its procedural interface.  If this were a real job I might try  
building what I need on top of it.  If I were an academic I'd  
probably extend an existing language.  I was sort of hoping somebody  
already had. :)

-Bill

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