Re: Linking libraries in machines.

[Neil Nelson]

mts wrote:

> I suspect that this is the exactly thing that should be included in
> GearLib...
>
> On the other side, is reasonably to include whole FFTW in Gearlib?
> There are licencing issues at the respect ?
> Should we include in Gearlib every posible code piece that a developer could
> need and convert-it to "the mother of all sound libraries" ?

I understand Octal to be a performance music or sound generator, while at
the moment the potential applications of FFTW for performance (live) sound
seem rather remote.  And the FFTW package is of a substantial size and
requires a specialized installation that seems a bit of an overkill.  
And then
there are some basic limitations in generating arbitrary sounds with the
discrete Fourier transform (FFTW) even if one could code the front-end
required to use it.  It would be easier to have a library of sound 
sample files
that could be selected and immediately used.  And I remember mention of
a standard package for assembling sounds or sample files.

Regards,

Neil Nelson