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Welp, I was about to point to wxMediaCtrl and wxSound as an alternative but
it seems you already made a lot of work in Glu.
I'll wish for a prompt bug fix. Thank you for your work as always.

Best wishes to you, Scorbie (Dongook Lee)





On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 7:15 AM Andrew Trevorrow <and...@gm...>
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> Me:
>
> > ... The cute_sound code is open source and seems quite reliable ...
>
> So, the day after I say that I get a report that Glu crashes on macOS Big
> Sur
> and it turns out the crash happens in a cute_sound call.  Sigh...
>
> I'm going to hold off making any changes to Golly until that bug is fixed.
> Could be a while...
>
> Andrew
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Me:

> ... The cute_sound code is open source and seems quite reliable ...

So, the day after I say that I get a report that Glu crashes on macOS Big
Sur
and it turns out the crash happens in a cute_sound call.  Sigh...

I'm going to hold off making any changes to Golly until that bug is fixed.
Could be a while...

Andrew

Sounds [heh] great!  People can start synthesizing [heh] patterns that play
great tunes!   MTV here we come!

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 6:18 PM Andrew Trevorrow <and...@gm...>
wrote:

> Chris Rowett added audio support in Golly, but it's not enabled in
> our official distributions because it relies on a commercial library
> (irrKlang) which isn't open source.  I've been using a different library
> called cute_sound (https://github.com/RandyGaul/cute_headers)
> in another project (https://glu1.sourceforge.io).  The cute_sound
> code is open source and seems quite reliable -- I've tested it
> on Windows/Mac/Linux -- so unless anyone objects I plan to
> make the following changes to Golly:
>
> * Replace the irrKlang code with cute_sound and enable it by
> default (I'd still keep the ENABLE_SOUND flag in case people
> want to build Golly without sound support).
>
> * Remove the sound command from the overlay and make it a
> Golly function.  The functionality would be identical but the new
> function would use a nicer syntax.  People wouldn't have to
> create an overlay to play sounds, and it would be available
> to both Lua and Python scripts.
>
> Having sound in Golly would let people explore CA-generated music,
> or at least create some interesting sound effects.  We could distribute
> a script that runs a pattern and plays different notes (or chords?)
> depending on the pattern's density or some other metric.  It might be
> interesting to see if there are any oscillators that generate nice tunes!
>
> Andrew
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Chris Rowett added audio support in Golly, but it's not enabled in
our official distributions because it relies on a commercial library
(irrKlang) which isn't open source.  I've been using a different library
called cute_sound (https://github.com/RandyGaul/cute_headers)
in another project (https://glu1.sourceforge.io).  The cute_sound
code is open source and seems quite reliable -- I've tested it
on Windows/Mac/Linux -- so unless anyone objects I plan to
make the following changes to Golly:

* Replace the irrKlang code with cute_sound and enable it by
default (I'd still keep the ENABLE_SOUND flag in case people
want to build Golly without sound support).

* Remove the sound command from the overlay and make it a
Golly function.  The functionality would be identical but the new
function would use a nicer syntax.  People wouldn't have to
create an overlay to play sounds, and it would be available
to both Lua and Python scripts.

Having sound in Golly would let people explore CA-generated music,
or at least create some interesting sound effects.  We could distribute
a script that runs a pattern and plays different notes (or chords?)
depending on the pattern's density or some other metric.  It might be
interesting to see if there are any oscillators that generate nice tunes!

Andrew