Wednesday, November 21, 2007, 03:38 PM GMT [General]
Impromptu is an OSX programming environment for composers, sound artists, VJ's and graphic artists with an interest in live or interactive programming. Impromptu is a Scheme language environment, a member of the Lisp family of languages.
Time plays a major role in the Impromptu environment allowing accurate real-time scheduling of events and code. Impromptu is a dynamic environment designed for the creation and manipulation of running programs in live performance.
Impromptu is a programmable AudioUnit host. A powerful environment for creating AudioUnit graphs of arbitrary complexity with precise programmatic control over individual AU nodes. Musical material can be precisely scheduled for performance by any AudioUnit instrument node and parameters, program changes and presets can be programmatically changed on-the-fly as well as directly via the AU's user interface.
Graphics routines can be applied with the same temporal accuracy as audio material allowing artists to tightly integrate audio and visual components. OpenGL, live video processing, vector drawing routines, image rendering, CoreImage filters, text rendering and quicktime movie support are a few of the graphics features available for artists to play with.
Impromptu also includes a bidirectional ObjC-Bridge allowing Scheme to instantiate and call ObjC objects and ObjC objects to call back into the Scheme interpreter. For those times when only C will do.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007, 03:34 PM GMT [General]
Fifty years after the introduction of the iconic 1957 Fender Stratocaster guitar, Fender has welcomed George Fullerton, back to the Fender family for the release of the Limited Edition George Fullerton 50th Anniversary Stratocaster guitar and amp set.
Wednesday, November 21, 2007, 01:10 PM GMT [General]
Hi to everyone here
It's good to see a blog network dedicated to our interests in guitars
Name is Martin and I've been playing guitar for some years now (too many to mention!)
I like playing all sorts of music in general but tend to be bias towards playing classical rock. I have a small home studio where I do all my recordings from, I'll try to get a few demos up as soon as possible.
I have many interests in and around music, one of those being speaker cabinet building, I have also built guitars from scratch which gives you a great feeling of satisfaction when you get to play your very own creation. Another interest of mine is restoring old valve amplifiers which as we all know were the best amplifiers to be produced
