MODELS AND APIs FOR AUDIO SYNTHESIS AND PROCESSING: A PANEL DISCUSSION

ABSTRACT The topic of this panel is object models, programming languages, and application programmer’s interfaces for digital audio processing. The panel brings together de-velopers who share the experience of designing more than one model or language for DASP software, and who are willing to compare and contrast them in terms of their underlying assumptions, the design trade-offs they made in the process, and the rules of thumb that they have learned over their years of experience.Referring back to previous works on languages and environments for computer music, we ask the questions raised in the past: what factors contribute to the success of a computer music language or tool? How do we best apply the features of modern programming languages, development and delivery environment? What have we learned since the 1980s (or the 1960s for that matter) that influences model and language design for music?The panel will be structured a free-flowing discussion of the decisions and trade-offs in system design, rather than a show-and-tell of each of the participants systems, or long position papers.