[CM] wrapper macro strategies

[Bret F Battey]

Oops, sorry, I should have been clearer:
I already know how to make basic wrapper macros using &body. What I can't crack is 
how to write a macro 'balance-sounds' that could turn this (for example):

(balance-sounds () (mix soundfile1) (mix soundfile2))

into 

(sound-let ((temp1 () (mix soundfile2))
           (sound-let ((temp2 () (mix soundfile2)))
                (balance temp1 temp2))))

or  a macro 'balance-sound-process':

(balance-sound-process () (contrast (:fm-index '(0 0 1 2))) (mix soundfile2)))

expanding into

(sound-let ((temp1 () (mix soundfile2))
           (sound-let ((temp2 () (contrast temp1 :fm-index '(0 0 1 2))))
                (balance temp2 temp1))))

(My paren's are probably off because I'm typing right into email)

The specific problem being that &body -- which would contain both the source sound 
specification and the contrast specification -- has to be split into two parts somehow...

[Also, this later example shows that I'm varying fm-index continuously, so I need a 
continuous adaptation of gain on the sound -- hence using balance rather than a 
single overall gain control based on relative peak values.]

Bret Battey                                     http://BatHatMedia.com
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Research Associate
Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media
University of Washington, Seattle    http://www.washington.edu/dxarts/



On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Bill Schottstaedt wrote:

> Bret F Battey wrote:
> 
> >(balance-sounds () (mix soundfile1) (mix soundfile2))
> >
> >But given that defmacro can only take one &body, I'm really not sure on how to pull 
this off.
> >  
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> sound.lisp has several examples -- &body is a list of all the statements 
> in the
> body of the macro, so you can use ,.body or ,@body to plug them in anywhere.
> A very simple example is
> 
> (defmacro without-warnings (&body body) `(progn ,.body))
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> For (balance-processed-sound () (contrast-sound (:fm-index 2) (mix soundfile1))),
> I'd save the maxamp (or whatever) of soundfile1, save the output of contrast-sound
> via sound-let, get the ratio to match the original, scale the new output, mixing
> that into the overall output.  sound-let's can be nested, as can with-sound's.
> If you get stuck, send me the actual code you're trying to use.
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