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Date1998-02-17 14:29
FromDave Phillips
SubjectCmix
Since there was some question regarding Cmix:

  Cmix is often described as a collection of DSP utility functions and
Music-N style unit generators. I frequently make use of Dave Topper's
excellent RTCmix for Linux: it is very attractive to a C programmer, has
many "modern" control structures, supports arrays, and even provides
realtime output. On the downside, it doesn't support MIDI yet, suffers
from a severe lack of documentation (often found only in the source code
itself), lags behind Csound in the number of UGs, and requires the user
to compile the desired functions into a comprehensive executable.

  A number of interesting graphic interfaces have been developed,
including Mara Helmuth's StochGran (SGI) and Patchmix (SGI and X), and
more good stuff for Linux is probably going to come from Brad Garton and
his crew at Columbia. 

  Paul Lansky has used Cmix extensively in his compositions.

  Cmix is available for NeXT, SGI, Sun, Mac, and Linux machines. Sorry,
no Windows or DOS spoken here...

  Linux users interested in Cmix should refer to the relevant sections
of the Linux soundapps page.

== Dave Phillips

       http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/index.html
   http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linux_soundapps.html

Date1998-02-17 16:40
FromDan Trueman
SubjectRe: Cmix
An addition to the CMIX info:

One of the wonderful things about Cmix (and RTcmix) is its MINC ("M is 
not C") language. It is an easily extensible C-like 
scripting language that interfaces with the UGs and DSPs and makes it 
easy to develop algorithmic structures. Perhaps Perl is better, but it 
works well...

Cheers,
Dan

----------------
"Oy, Fungus!"
Dan Trueman
Music Department
Princeton University
http://www.music.princeton.edu/~dan
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On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Dave Phillips wrote:

> Since there was some question regarding Cmix:
> 
>   Cmix is often described as a collection of DSP utility functions and
> Music-N style unit generators. I frequently make use of Dave Topper's
> excellent RTCmix for Linux: it is very attractive to a C programmer, has
> many "modern" control structures, supports arrays, and even provides
> realtime output. On the downside, it doesn't support MIDI yet, suffers
> from a severe lack of documentation (often found only in the source code
> itself), lags behind Csound in the number of UGs, and requires the user
> to compile the desired functions into a comprehensive executable.
> 
>   A number of interesting graphic interfaces have been developed,
> including Mara Helmuth's StochGran (SGI) and Patchmix (SGI and X), and
> more good stuff for Linux is probably going to come from Brad Garton and
> his crew at Columbia. 
> 
>   Paul Lansky has used Cmix extensively in his compositions.
> 
>   Cmix is available for NeXT, SGI, Sun, Mac, and Linux machines. Sorry,
> no Windows or DOS spoken here...
> 
>   Linux users interested in Cmix should refer to the relevant sections
> of the Linux soundapps page.
> 
> == Dave Phillips
> 
>        http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/index.html
>    http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linux_soundapps.html
>