Hi guys,
take a look here.
http://faust.grame.fr/index.php/online-examples

Faust is a great DSP coding enviroment that can export algorythms in Linux, OSx and Windiows in several formats : VST, VSTi, Csound opcodes, SuperCollider Ugens, Max Msp externals, pd externals.
Wouldn't be great if Faust can export Synthedit's SEMs ?
Maybe Jeff ( if he likes the idea ) could contact Stephane wich is the main Faust developer. I guess that his email contact is on the Faust website.

what do you think about it ?

cool......

yeah! a DSP swissknife

yeah, Ive thought about this before. Ive had a look at Faust, and basically it uses code templates for the source code files it outputs. You'd probably need to grok Faust's processing model and know what a SEM looks like in order to do it, but a lot of it can probably be gleaned from the existing examples. There are also papers on extending faust for new temmplate types, eg the PD one.
If I remember rightly Faust has two parts/types to its templates, the UI side and the audio side.

If I was going to start, I'd try some basic output from Faust and try and edit it until it worked as a SEM, then see whether that was more easily done with some sort of automatic code modifier, or an entirely new template.

I think for SEM oriented use we only need the audio side and implement UI in SE.

yup, thats what i reckoned.

Of course, to use it, first you need a working Faust. Last time I looked there was still no Windows binary. Strangely there's a graphical front end for faust called Faustworks, for which there is a Windows binary, but still needs a Faust binary to be usable.
Cant remember if theres a proper Windows project for Faust, think its all just makefiles. I did manage to get it compiled in Codeblocks though.

The online system works quiet well. Just had a quick try with the examples; click at compile-Windows VST and you get a VST .dll within seconds. It also can output C++, so it can't be that hard to put the code for a SEM around that and output it in that format? Would really be interesting!

Interisting idea! Should be doable on the dsp side. The only tricky thing would be sleep mode - especially trickier situations like IIR filters. Has anybody tried out the c++ export option? Any odd dependecies? Easily understandable?

Andrew

It does indeed, I'd forgotten that because Id been focussing on getting Faustworks running.