Saturday September 27th

This morning I’m considering just getting rid of the unit generator paradigm in astrid and libpippi altogether. Over the last few years I experimented with two approaches, recently deleting one of them. Both were set up to use one ugen abstraction / lifecycle, and named parameters for communication.

This morning I was thinking about how nice it feels to just write a stream callback in C, and not think about “ugens” – just avoid allocs and make samples. I’ve been working toward the ugen interface so python instruments can live code their graphs. Maybe that’s still worth preserving, but I like the idea of just writing the whole stream callback in C, and importing it into the python instrument as a plugin of sorts.

That approach is probably the simpler one for what I’m working on at the moment – a feedback system with mostly wood resonators and one floating metal resonator.