Snd 8.6 review

Snd is a freeware sound editor modelled loosely after Emacs and an old, sorely-missed PDP-10 sound editor named Dpysnd. It can acc

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 6042K Developer: Bill Schottstaedt

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Snd is a freeware sound editor modelled loosely after Emacs and an old, sorely-missed PDP-10 sound editor named Dpysnd.

It can accommodate any number of sounds, each with any number of channels. It can be customized and extended using Guile or Ruby.

What's New in This Release:
added a bunch of Forth files (*.fs) thanks to Mike Scholz.

many more improvements from Kjetil and Mike.

Gauche support in Snd -- this is a Scheme extension language like Guile.

http://www.shiro.dreamhost.com/scheme/gauche/index.html

use --with-gauche in configure. There are a number of small differences
between Gauche and Guile.

added gauche-optargs.scm to get define* (but not defmacro*)
gauche-format.scm to get ~{ and others, but it's semi-broken
block comments in '#| |#' to the Guile Snd to be compatible with Gauche (and CL).
removed ws-interrupt? arg (no defmacro* currently in Gauche version).
added define+ and definstrument+ to get around lack of documentation string support in Gauche.
changed all '#! !#' to "#| |#'
changed all '#:' to ':'
"run" is a no-op in Gauche -- local variables aren't (currently) accessible in this context.

clisp support in clm. Due to Clisp's way of macroexpanding "loop", the
loop macro can't be used within "run" (this affects Clisp users only of course).
I changed a bunch of such cases to use "do". Also, "run*" doesn't currently work in
the Clisp clm.

changed show-listener slightly; if optional arg is #f, listener is not created.

removed envelope-base.

clm-load (ws.scm) for cm.

checked: sbcl 0.9.11|12, gsl 1.8, gtk 2.8.17, fftw 3.1.1, fth up to 0.8.16

with much help from: Michael Klingbeil, Kjetil, Mike.