overtone VS ThinkDSP

I've never actually used it myself. I've preferred systems that talk to SuperCollider, like overtone, because it's already rock solid and has lots of good DSP built in.

Thanks. I don't know to what extend its "better-because-of-clojure" but I also found overtone https://github.com/overtone/overtone which should be good fun (though the underlying synthesizer is supercollider/C++).

You might want to look at Overtone, which is a clojure environment built on top of overtone, and which integrates with processing and a few other similar things.

https://overtone.github.io/

> I'm fluent in Python but find the use of colons is the real sticking point.

The you'd probably have hated its predecessor which was all about the parentheses: https://overtone.github.io/

It's too bad that superficial stuff like which characters you need to type is holding you back. Getting used to Ruby when you're familiar with Python is no big deal. I would just stick with it

There's a project you may find interesting: https://overtone.github.io/. Besides sound/synthesis stuff, it has https://github.com/overtone/midi-clj library, which allows you to write MIDI as lisp (Clojure, to be precise) code. Emacs has great support for Clojure programming (via Cider), and REPL-based development is perfect for writing music.

There's a free book online called Think DSP that teaches you how to design and visualize filters in Python: https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-dsp/

https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-dsp/

It can be bought, but is available for free. Code is also available via GitHub. It uses Python and Jupyter.

"The premise of this book (and the other books in the Think X series) is that if you know how to program, you can use that skill to learn other things. I am writing this book because I think the conventional approach to digital signal processing is backward: most books (and the classes that use them) present the material bottom-up, starting with mathematical abstractions like phasors."

How about Think DSP: Digital Signal Processing in Python - https://github.com/AllenDowney/ThinkDSP

My application is signal processing and tried to reproduce parts of https://github.com/AllenDowney/ThinkDSP in C++. https://gitlab.com/cpp8/thinkdsp.git and supplemented with some others. Documentation in https://github.com/RajaSrinivasan/assignments.git

Think DSP