On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Mike Meyer wrote:

I'm looking for advice on generating sounds from a desktop app. I'm perfectly happy if it doesn't have a GUI, but runs from the command line.

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If you decide to use my lib for desktop (csound-expression). The examples can lead you to think that the audio is generated with Haskell which is not so. It requires the installation of csound command line utility. The Haskell just generates the code for csound. 2015-09-15 21:23 GMT+03:00 Mike Meyer :

I'm looking for advice on generating sounds from a desktop app. I'm perfectly happy if it doesn't have a GUI, but runs from the command line.

The desire is to take a config file for an embedded device that encodes tunes it plays back and play them on the desktop. The data could be represented as:

type Note = Integer type Duration = Integer data Tone = Tone Note Duration newtype Tune = Tune [Tone]

[N.B. - I don't necessarily plan on using the above, I just wanted to illustrate the types.

Now I just need to play back the resulting tune.

Looking through hackage and hoogle find a number of sound libraries, but they either seem to be targeted at manipulating audio files and the data therein, or dealing with midi events and associated devices. I suspect that at least one of them can do what I want, but before I start delving into one I'd like to know that it can do this with minimal extra code and pain.

So, anyone want to suggest a library for this task?

Thanks,

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