[Stk] older versions of STK?

[Gary P. Scavone]

Hi Manj,

All past releases of STK are still available (though not linked  
anywhere).  I will provide a list of what exists below.  All are in  
the following path:

    http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/stk/release/

1.1M stk3.2-exe.tar.gz
1.3M stk3.2-exe.zip
732K stk3.2.tar.gz
864K stk3.2.zip
2.2M stk-4.0.binaries.tar.gz
1.6M stk-4.0.tar.gz
1.2M stk-4.1.1-1.i386.rpm
2.0M stk-4.1.1.binaries.tar.gz
1.2M stk-4.1-1.i386.rpm
1.2M stk-4.1.1.tar.gz
2.4M stk-4.1.2.binaries.tar.gz
1.2M stk-4.1-2.i386.rpm
1.3M stk-4.1.2.tar.gz
2.4M stk-4.1.3.binaries.tar.gz
1.3M stk-4.1.3.tar.gz
1.6M stk-4.1.binaries.tar.gz
1.1M stk-4.1.tar.gz
3.0M stk-4.2.0.binaries.tar.gz
1.4M stk-4.2.0.tar.gz
3.6M stk-4.2.1.binaries.tar.gz
1.9M stk-4.2.1.tar.gz
1.6M stkmanual.pdf
660K STKv2.01exe.tgz
748K STKv2.01exe.zip
560K STKv2.01.tgz
648K STKv2.01.zip
692K STKv2.02exe.tgz
780K STKv2.02exe.zip
588K STKv2.02.tgz
676K STKv2.02.zip
656K STKv3.0exe.tgz
760K STKv3.0exe.zip
444K STKv3.0.tgz
548K STKv3.0.zip
1000K STKv3.1exe.tgz
1.1M STKv3.1exe.zip
732K STKv3.1.tgz
848K STKv3.1.zip

Regards,

--gary

On 4-Nov-05, at 2:44 AM, Manj Benning wrote:

> I need to get my hands on ver 3.2 of STK and other older versions if
> possible
> anyone have or know how to get? I am working on porting Georg  
> Essl's 2D
> banded wave guide (1999) to percolate and marsyas.
> thanks
>
> Manj
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stk-admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU [mailto:stk- 
> admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Michael Gogins
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:04 AM
> To: stk@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> Subject: Re: [Stk] Stk and Python
>
>
> I'm the author of Silence. As you may have guessed it is currently  
> moribund.
>
> I have moved the algorithmic composition classes from Silence into
> CsoundVST, which is part of Csound 5.
>
> I have also provided Csound 5 opcodes for most instruments and  
> effects in
> the STK. I use these STK instruments in pieces.
>
> Cound5 is scriptable in Python, but not at the DSP level, only at the
> operation and composing level.
>
> I have always had an interest in a new software synthesis system. The
> version of Silence you reference had such a system, but instruments  
> had to
> be written in C++.
>
> I am at a very slow rate working on a new system, in which  
> intruments will
> be written in either Lua or Python (I would prefer Lua for its  
> speed and
> ease of embedding, but with SWIG, Python classes can inherit from C+ 
> + base
> classes). In any event I will use the STK for unit generators.
>
> My belief is that if the DSP graph (the framework of the  
> synthesizer) is
> written in C++ and processing is done in blocks of sample frames, then
> instruments can be written in Python (or Lua) wrapped STK unit  
> generators,
> and it will be "fast enough" -- not as fast as Csound or  
> SuperCollider, but
> fast enough to use. This belief is based partly on prior  
> experience, and
> partly on a report at the last Lua conference on a Lua framework  
> (evidently
> based on the STK) for writing VST effects in Lua (from Adobe, for  
> Adobe
> Audition).
>
> In other words, Python or Lua would be used to set up the DSP  
> graph, and the
> movement of samples and processing at run time would largely be in C 
> ++. Only
> the transfer of data from unit generator to unit generator would move
> through Python or Lua.
>
> Right now I am trying to get the design of the framework "just  
> right." Once
> I have done that I know from my previous experience that building  
> in the
> unit generators and getting the system to work is actually not very  
> much
> work. But the design has to be really, really good.
>
> Aside from the joy of being able to write instruments and  
> compositions in an
> easy language, Python or Lua would bring in with them enormous  
> libraries to
> vastly expand the capabilities for making music, especially in  
> mathematics
> and computer graphics.
>
> Best,
> Mike
>
>
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