SOUL: A New Efficient, Portable, Low-Latency Audio Programming Language

Re:SOUL: A New Efficient, Portable, Low-Latency Audio Progra... by julesrms on Sunday December 09, 2018 @01:35PM (#18642405)

No - none of us had heard of SAOL, but it looks like it's so long defunct that I couldn't even find a very clear description of what it did. The website for it seems to have been bit-rotting since 2002.

Obviously there's a ton of technical detail that we've not released yet, but yes, allowing streams running at arbitrary samples rates (not just "a" or "k") to be invisibly handled by the API and runtime is a concept that's deeply baked into the design.

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Re:SOUL: A New Efficient, Portable, Low-Latency Audio Progra... by sriku on Sunday December 09, 2018 @11:09PM (#18645121)

Sounds interesting.

Btw SAOL (structured audio orchestration language) was proposed as part of the mpeg7 initiative, which is itself quite long dead.

SAOL was based on csound concepts. Back then, we had "csound cards" that ran csound units directly on them in real time with a near-zero (read sub ms) control-to-sound latency. Btw iirc even a control signal sent to a Bluetooth device can suffer a 3ms delay, which is low, but not "essentially zero". I get about that much from trigger to sound on the ios. BT Streams have 100x more delay than that (also noted in the keynote).

PS: finally watched the video.

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