Re: [tuning] Digest Number 800

Yes, Joseph, Matlab is short for MATrix LABoratory, a mathematical assistant that has its own
high level programming language. If you are a student, or can find one hanging out by a
bookstore, you can get the current _uncastrated_ (!) student edition for $100. Matlab student
edition used to limit the size of your matrices, but the new one does not. Check their web page
at www.mathworks.com to make sure, since the names of the new and old student editions are
similar, and the old ones are still on the shelves somewhere.
Sound is a built in function of Matlab, and if you do a web search for "matlab sound" you
will find plenty of references. Matlab has many add-on toolboxes, among which are signal
processing, filters and spectral analysis.

There are at least two freeware Matlab clones, Scilab, which will run on Linux and Windows,
and Octave (my favorite) which is Unix (Linux) only.

Another mathematical assistant is Mathematica from Wolfram Research, whose student edition is
also $100 (last time I looked) and which also has sound capabilities.

Derive has been mentioned on this forum, but I don't know if it has sound capabilities.

Mathcad also has sound capabilities, but I haven't used it for years.

There. More than you ever wanted to know.

--
John Starrett
"We have nothing to fear but the scary stuff."

Dear John
have you used scilab to generate matices?
i found it rather easy to compile for Redhat as ther was an RPM
but i never really dug into it.
I would love to use it to generate spring wieghts for Csound scanned
synth/JI pieces
please let me know
cheers

Pat Pagano, Director
South East Just Intonation Society
http://www.virtulink.com/immp/video/
http://www.screwmusicforever.com/SHREESWIFT/
----- Original Message -----
From: John Starrett <jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu>
To: <tuning@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [tuning] Digest Number 800

>
> Yes, Joseph, Matlab is short for MATrix LABoratory, a mathematical
assistant that has its own
> high level programming language. If you are a student, or can find one
hanging out by a
> bookstore, you can get the current _uncastrated_ (!) student edition for
$100. Matlab student
> edition used to limit the size of your matrices, but the new one does not.
Check their web page
> at www.mathworks.com to make sure, since the names of the new and old
student editions are
> similar, and the old ones are still on the shelves somewhere.
> Sound is a built in function of Matlab, and if you do a web search for
"matlab sound" you
> will find plenty of references. Matlab has many add-on toolboxes, among
which are signal
> processing, filters and spectral analysis.
>
> There are at least two freeware Matlab clones, Scilab, which will run
on Linux and Windows,
> and Octave (my favorite) which is Unix (Linux) only.
>
> Another mathematical assistant is Mathematica from Wolfram Research,
whose student edition is
> also $100 (last time I looked) and which also has sound capabilities.
>
> Derive has been mentioned on this forum, but I don't know if it has sound
capabilities.
>
> Mathcad also has sound capabilities, but I haven't used it for years.
>
> There. More than you ever wanted to know.
>
> --
> John Starrett
> "We have nothing to fear but the scary stuff."
>
>
>
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Even more than you probably wanted to know :-)

Derive does not to my knowledge have sound capabilities, nor is working with
large numerical problems very convenient. Matlab is far better than Derive
for straight numerical work.

One other free package, very little known, is Perl Data Language (PDL). It
is mostly an image processing environment, very popular among astronomers.
It does exist for Windows, but the last time I looked the UNIX
implementation was a boatload better.

I had SciLab or something like it once upon a time; it was, in a word,
humongous, and I deleted it from my disk.

There used to be a free symbolic package on the web; the name escapes me at
the moment, though. If it still exists, I can track it down if anyone is
interested.

Free *statistics* packages? Well, there's a number of specialized ones, but
there are four more general ones that I like. Xlispstat runs on UNIX, Mac
and Windows. There are two packages layered on Xlispstat called ViSta
(Visual Statistics) and ARC. Xlispstat comes on the Red Hat CD if you're a
Linux geek. ViSta is available for Windows, Mac and UNIX, but the Windows
version is the only one being actively enhanced at present. ARC is mostly
about regression and graphics and is available for all three Xlispstat
platforms (I think). As the name implies, the underlying language is LISP.

Then there is R, formerly known as GNU S. R is a very flexible statistics
and graphics package. The underlying language is an efficient dialect of
LISP I've seen mentioned here, called Scheme. R is available for Windows and
UNIX; I don't know about Mac. I can post the URLs if anyone is interested.
--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
znmeb@teleport.com
http://www.borasky-research.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Starrett [mailto:jstarret@carbon.cudenver.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 7:37 PM
> To: tuning@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [tuning] Digest Number 800

> Yes, Joseph, Matlab is short for MATrix LABoratory, a
> mathematical assistant that has its own
> high level programming language. If you are a student, or can
> find one hanging out by a
> bookstore, you can get the current _uncastrated_ (!) student
> edition for $100. Matlab student
> edition used to limit the size of your matrices, but the new one
> does not. Check their web page
> at www.mathworks.com to make sure, since the names of the new and
> old student editions are
> similar, and the old ones are still on the shelves somewhere.
> Sound is a built in function of Matlab, and if you do a web
> search for "matlab sound" you
> will find plenty of references. Matlab has many add-on toolboxes,
> among which are signal
> processing, filters and spectral analysis.
>
> There are at least two freeware Matlab clones, Scilab, which
> will run on Linux and Windows,
> and Octave (my favorite) which is Unix (Linux) only.
>
> Another mathematical assistant is Mathematica from Wolfram
> Research, whose student edition is
> also $100 (last time I looked) and which also has sound capabilities.
>
> Derive has been mentioned on this forum, but I don't know if it
> has sound capabilities.
>
> Mathcad also has sound capabilities, but I haven't used it for years.
>
> There. More than you ever wanted to know.

--- In tuning@egroups.com, John Starrett <jstarret@c...> wrote:

http://www.egroups.com/message/tuning/12732

> Yes, Joseph, Matlab is short for MATrix LABoratory, a mathematical
assistant that has its own
> high level programming language. If you are a student, or can find
one hanging out by a
> bookstore, you can get the current _uncastrated_ (!) student
edition
for $100.

Hmmm. Seems I lost my "student ID" a couple of years ago...

Matlab student
> edition used to limit the size of your matrices, but the new one
does not. Check their web page
> at www.mathworks.com

This website was interesting, though. It does a lot of stuff...

to make sure, since the names of the new and
old student editions are
> similar, and the old ones are still on the shelves somewhere.
> Sound is a built in function of Matlab

Now... that's the amazing part. I never would have guessed.

Still, it's a little pricey just for balancing my checkbook...
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Joseph Pehrson