> This ability to play with sound is usually relegated to DAWs, and these apps are built for musicians, not programmers. But what if programmers want to use the power, speed, and sound quality of a DAW in their code?
Well then, they could:
* use Faust or Soul
* use existing plugins in LV2, VST3 or AU formats
* write a new plugin in LV2, VST3 or AU formats
* use SuperCollider, or PureData or any of more than a dozen live-coding languages
* use VCV Rack or Reaktor or any of at least half-dozen other modular environments to build new processing pathways.
Oh wait ...
> Artists, musicians, and producers with a bit of Python knowledge can use Pedalboard to produce new creative effects that would be extremely time consuming and difficult to produce in a DAW.
So it's not actually for programmers at all, its for people "with a bit of Python knowledge".
OK, maybe I'm being a bit too sarcastic. I just get riled up by the breathless BS in the marketing copy for this sort of thing.
It's a plugin host, with the ability to add your own python code to the processing pathway. Nothing wrong with that, but there's no need to overstate its novelty or breadth.
[ EDIT: if I hadn't admitted to my own over-snarkiness, would you still have downvoted my attempt to point out other long-available approaches for the apparent use-case? ]
Well then, they could:
* use Faust or Soul
* use existing plugins in LV2, VST3 or AU formats
* write a new plugin in LV2, VST3 or AU formats
* use SuperCollider, or PureData or any of more than a dozen live-coding languages
* use VCV Rack or Reaktor or any of at least half-dozen other modular environments to build new processing pathways.
Oh wait ...
> Artists, musicians, and producers with a bit of Python knowledge can use Pedalboard to produce new creative effects that would be extremely time consuming and difficult to produce in a DAW.
So it's not actually for programmers at all, its for people "with a bit of Python knowledge".
OK, maybe I'm being a bit too sarcastic. I just get riled up by the breathless BS in the marketing copy for this sort of thing.
It's a plugin host, with the ability to add your own python code to the processing pathway. Nothing wrong with that, but there's no need to overstate its novelty or breadth.
[ EDIT: if I hadn't admitted to my own over-snarkiness, would you still have downvoted my attempt to point out other long-available approaches for the apparent use-case? ]