[Csnd] When do you use faust?

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Hi folks, hoping to solicit some subjective opinions here. I’m interested to hear when and why you use faust within csound. I don’t know it yet, but have been curious about it for a while. the fact that one can use faust in csound, Max, and max’s gen, as well as standalone seems compelling, but I don’t really know for what it excels.

(looking forward to receiving my copy of Victor’s book with the csound, python, and faust examples!)

thanks
iain

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To my use, faust is good for implementing DSP that would be slow if implemented with a UDO. However there are
the issues that spectral processing in the way we do in Csound (streaming, overlapping analysis) and oversampling
are not possible currently in faust.

Btw, I don’t use Faust in the latest book, but Python and Csound. I used it in an earlier volume though.

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Thanks Victor, good to know. I ordered two, the Spectral book and the first volume of designing computer instruments (which has Faust and Python, correct?). Looking forward to them!

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That’s right, that is the one.

Prof. Victor Lazzarini
Maynooth University
Ireland