Cybin

This is Cybin. This is ~~early, unstable, alpha software~~ actually relatively stable now and comes with some decent utilities.

Installation:

Make sure you've got a C++ compiler
Install LuaJIT, libsoundio, libsndfile, freeglut, and if you're on MacOS, XQuartz (XQuarts has a native MacOS installer, all other dependencies are available through brew)
Install git
Run cd && git clone https://github.com/efairbanks/Cybin.git && cd Cybin
Run ./debian_build.sh or macos_build.sh depending on your platform
Put export PATH=$PATH:~/Cybin in your .bash_profile or other shell startup file

Optional

Install Emacs
Place the following into your Emacs init file (~/.emacs, ~/.emacs.el, or ~/.emacs.d/init.el)

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/Cybin")
(autoload 'cybin-mode "cybin-mode" "Cybin editing mode." t)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.cybin$" . cybin-mode))
(add-to-list 'interpreter-mode-alist '("cybin" . cybin-mode))

Emacs Hotkeys

C-c C-c -> execute line
C-c C-b -> execute file
C-c C-e -> execute block/paragraph

caveats: There's currently a pretty low limit to the number of characters you can send to the Cybin interpreter at a time, so watch out or it'll puke all over the place. Note the separation of code blocks in demo.cybin.

Goals:

Few dependencies (relatively speaking) (done)
Real-time, from-scratch audio synthesis in LUA (done)
Real-time, from-scratch video & image synthesis with LUA and OpenGL (tbd)
Seamless transition from live performance to high-quality offline rendering (audio: done, video: tbd)
Loading audio, video, and image data (audio: done, video: tbd, image: tbd)
On-the-fly reloading of LUA/OpenGL code with file watchers or a REPL (tbd)
C++ classes wrapped in LUA interfaces with efficient implementations of common effects and techinques (tbd)
- granular synthesis
- ray-marching
- cellular automata
- etc...
Mind-blowing demos and example code (tbd unless you like breakcore with repetetive basslines)

Dependencies

LuaJIT
libsoundio
libsndfile
freeglut
XQuartz (required for MacOS freeglut compatibility)

jarmitage / Cybin