[Haskell-beginners] audio generation

[Dennis Raddle]

On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 9:59 PM, Jeremy Shaw <jeremy at n-heptane.com> wrote:

> You might consider using the pipes library:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pipes-4.1.8/docs/Pipes-Tutorial.html
>
> The pipes library will allow you to generate audio and write it to
> disk with out having to worry if you are going to suck up all the RAM
> accidentally.
>
> It should also help you  decompose your pipeline into smaller pieces.
> For example, you would like to be able to decompose your code into
> things like:
>
>  1. the code that generates the audio
>  2. the code that converts the audio into a format like wav/aiff/etc
>  3. the code that writes binary data to disk
>
> And then simply glue those pieces together, while feeling secure that
> you don't create a space leak in the process.
>
> It will also allow you to use StateT or IO (or anything other type
> with a Monad instance) if you need to.
>
> The pipes library is not trivial to learn. But it is well designed.
>
> Without using the pipes library you have two options:
>
>  1. understand how laziness works and then be very careful to make
> sure you never accidentally hold onto data too long and cause a space
> leak.
>
>  2. use strict IO functions and write code that generates the output
> in little chunks at a time. The concept is, perhaps, easy to
> understand. But as your code base grows, the code will become harder
> to understand and to modify.
>


Thanks, Jeremy. At this time the code is experimental and may never go
anywhere after the initial experiments, so if your option #2 is the easiest
to get going, that would be my choice.

Mike
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