Swift code helps get going quickly (AudioKit for iOS does this well)

Hello People, Any chance of someone from Ableton getting a Best Practices, working, Swift 2.x example that wraps the Objective-C code?

Github.com/audiokit/AudioKit has created some nice Swift examples and they help get things rolling real quick. Thanks. ~ Robert

[brs-ableton]

Hi @loopbum - do you have a specific suggestion of what you would want to see with Swift bindings? There's only a single Objective-C class with a single factory method in LinkKit. The rest is C. I could imagine a Swift playground that would allow you to explore the C API in some way would be cool to have, but I'm afraid experimenting with this would not be terribly high priority for us right now.

I'm more interested in getting it to work with AudioKit as it's C and Objective-C based. As for C that's not the issue as much as C++ which will be addressed in Swift 3.x

So immediate use case for LinkKit; I've not been able to pull together AudioKit with LinkKit, that's, very easy to use Swift 2.x with AudioKit.

[dansimco]

+1

[jasonjsnell]

I've gotten ABLLink to work with Swift 3.0. Recoded the app classes as Swift 3 and using a Bridging-Header.h which allows the Swift to easily call the C classes. Also needed to add the libABLink.a and libc++.tbd to my Build Phases to work.

[kowongh]

@jasonjsnell is there a repo for this swift class?

[jasonjsnell]

I have it as a private repo because I assume Ableton doesn't want the code public (yet? Correct me if I'm wrong). I'll send you a private invite to it.

[jbloit]

Hi Robert, I've used Link in swift projects but my underlying audio engine is still written in objective C and C to work with the audio thread (likely in a similar way that Jason described it). But I'm assuming you are really asking whether people have used Link when using AudioKit to build the audio engine in swift, right? If so, then I think your question would be worth asking on the AudioKit forum directly, since: 1- It seems to be something that the AudioKit team has on their roadmap ( https://github.com/audiokit/AudioKit/projects/2). 2- from a recent AudioKit forum thread ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/audiokit/PVl0vKc7EcU) it looks like they still need to implement an interface for working at the audio buffer level in C. Quoting from that thread: "getting custom C/C++ code working in the buffer callback has been a commonly requested feature. Right now, a formal interface for doing such things doesn't exist, but I see no reason why it can't. We just need the users who really need it to build it. " Julien

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On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:33 AM, Jason Snell ***@***.***> wrote: I have it as a private repo because I assume Ableton doesn't want the code public (yet? Correct me if I'm wrong). I'll send you a private invite to it. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#10 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABB6z-d5gZKygE1XKdRfBie0dMT64_pKks5rw-jXgaJpZM4HeOPD> .

[jasonjsnell]

I was able to build an audio engine in Swift. I happen to be using an file player unit to play my sounds, but it is also possible with a render loop in Swift. It takes a few conversions in and out of RawPointers, but it can be done.

https://github.com/jasonjsnell/XvAudioSystem

[rikardvilhelm]

Hello, we have just released two link-enabled apps. I am trying to find where to register theses apps or how to let the Ableton Link community to know of their existence. Thanks you for the help in advance. Kind regards Rikard

[thomjordan]

Could I receive an invite as well? I haven't started integrating Link yet for my project, which is mostly written in Swift, with some Objective-C.

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On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Jason Snell ***@***.***> wrote: I have it as a private repo because I assume Ableton doesn't want the code public (yet? Correct me if I'm wrong). I'll send you a private invite to it. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#10 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AFunMEIsgHtjv6hPbgOLNulrpE3Bjzj2ks5rw-jYgaJpZM4HeOPD> .

[jasonjsnell]

Sure, I'll do that now. I also reached out to Ableton to see if I can make that repo public...

[dewib]

"Me too please", he says jumping up and down like an excited (if slightly lazy) 5 year old...
"I'd love an invite" big smiley face...

[boblemarin]

I would be very interested too...

[jbloit]

Me too! Thank you

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[jasonjsnell]

Talking with Ableton now about making it public. I'll have news soon...