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sfront 0.91 - 7/30/06 released
Hi laa-folk, Announcing the release of sfront 0.91 7/30/06, available for download from: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/sfman/user/install/ index.html#download Here is the change log: [1] Bug fix: sfront now defaults to writing 16-bit WAV and AIFF files, and the command-line flags for specifying 16-bit WAV and AIFF files now work correctly (thanks to Francois Pinot). [2] Bug fixes in the documentation and implementation of the custom control driver API (thanks to Francois Pinot). For those of you unfamiliar with sfront, here's a short bio: Sfront compiles MPEG 4 Structured Audio (MP4-SA) bitstreams into efficient C programs that generate audio when executed. MP4-SA is a standard for normative algorithmic sound, that combines an audio signal processing language (SAOL) with score languages (SASL, and the legacy MIDI File Format). Under Linux and Mac OS X, sfront supports real-time, low-latency audio input/output, local MIDI input from soundcards, and networked MIDI input using RTP and SIP. A SIP server hosted on the Berkeley campus manages sessions. The documentation includes a book about SAOL programming. Learn more at: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/index.html --- John Lazzaro http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro lazzaro [at] cs [dot] berkeley [dot] edu --- _______________________________________________ linux-audio-announce mailing list linux-audio-announce@music.columbia.edu http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-an... (Log in to post comments)
Sfront amazing, Sfront author amazing Posted Aug 3, 2006 8:25 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] It's hard to tell at first what Sfront is for. Suffice to say here that if you have any interest in audio processing, it is well worth the time spent learning -- even if you find you don't need it just yet! It's remarkable that what it does has been standardized; no doubt there's a fascinating story behind that fact.
The author, John Lazzaro, invented the "silicon cochlea", a chip that substitutes for a structure of the inner ear, and runs on microwatts, that today allows thousands of formerly deaf people to hear normal speech.
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