[PD] Lua and PD

[Chris McCormick]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:45:47AM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Claude Heiland-Allen hat gesagt: // Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:
> > Vast amounts of number crunching, for performance reasons.  This 
> > includes DSP at the moment, although hopefully Frank's port of 
> > Lua~/Vessel~ is a viable alternative (not sure what the current status 
> > of that is).
> 
> It is working fairly well and now that LAC is almost over I intend to
> work more on it as I want to use it in a project. Vessel is quite
> fast: All synthesis and number crunching happens in a C-library, while
> Lua just serves as a kind of text based patching environment for
> dynamically generating the dsp graphs. This is very handy for granular
> synthesis or any other tasks that require lots of polyphony. So Vessel
> can do things that are nearly impossible with Pd patching alone.

Really excited to try this out!

Chris.

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