(09-09-2018, 11:32 AM)Trippynet Wrote: Are there any good audio tools for IRIX around that people are aware of, other of course than Audacity and the built-in IRIX audio editing apps? I do quite a bit of audio work with Adobe Audition 1.5 on my PC (basically Cool Edit Pro in other words), but always struggled to find decent audio apps under IRIX.
It depends upon what it is you're trying to do. If you mean of the modern graphical interface multichannel DAW type, basically no (as far as I'm aware.) Snd (
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/snd.html) ran under IRIX back in the day and may still do so. You could probably find an old version in any case.
In the 90s, IRIX was mostly used for low-level synthesis programming. This is an field of computer music unfamiliar to most people It basically involves using a programming language (or graphical programming environment) to process and synthesize sound. Popular modern examples include Max/MSP and SuperCollider. IRIX had CSound, pd, Cmix, Common Music, and a few others. CSound and pd still exist and are popular on other platforms, including Linux. I doubt current versions would compile under IRIX and I don't currently have an IRIX box to test it on, although I hope to acquire one so I can give it a try and hopefully get some useful stuff running.
