Siren 7.5 Release Notes

Current Status

This is the V7.5 release of Siren on VisualWorks. (For simplicity, Siren version numbers parallel the versions of Smalltalk on which they run.)

Smoke: The Smoke representation is complete, see the event list and event generator examples.

Voices and Schedulers: The scheduler delivers acceptable real-time performance on a modern CPU. The real-time output via OSC or MIDI is suitable for use in performance.

Sound I/O: Sound file I/O is implemented for many kinds of sound files (AIFF, WAV, .snd, etc.) via the libSndFile interface. There is a PortAudio callback interface using DLLCC as well as an FFTW interface for the class Spectrum

MIDI/OSC: Ports and Voices exist for real-time control I/O.

There are DLLCC interfaces to CSL and Loris based on SWIG interfaces.

Graphics and GUI: The display list framework, Navigator MVC framework, and several MVC-based GUI tools are available; see the examples above.

Version History

Siren on Visualworks
7.5--CREATE, Santa Barbara, April, 2007
7.4--CREATE, Santa Barbara, Winter, 2006
7.3--CREATE, Santa Barbara, throughout 2005
7.2--CREATE, Santa Barbara, Fall, 2003
7.0--CREATE, Santa Barbara, Spring, 2001

Siren on Squeak
3.0--T. U. Berlin, Summer, 2000
2.2--CREATE, October/November, 1998
2.0--CREATE, April-June, 1998
1.3--CREATE, August/September, 1997
1.0--CREATE, December, 1996

MODE
2.0--(Topaz2) CNMAT/Berkeley, April - December, 1994
1.3--(Topaz) SICS/EMS, Stockholm, February - April, 1993
1.2--CCRMA/Stanford, July, 1991 - February, 1992
1.0--STEIM, Amsterdam, May/June 1990
0.8--CCRMA/Stanford, June, 1989
0.4--ParcPlace Systems, March, 1988

HyperScoreToolKit
1.0--Xerox PARC, October, 1986

DoubleTalk
1.0--PCS/Cadmus GmbH, September, 1985