NB: please note the new venue! We’ll be learning about Audio Synthesis in F# with John Stovin.

This is a re-run of his very popular workshop at F# Exchange this year, brought to you in collaboration with the Manchester F# User group, and should be lots of fun!

Planning for the usual 7pm (doors open a little earlier, we aim to start by 7:05pm), but do keep an eye out for any changes, as it’s a slightly new setup.

In this workshop, John Stovin will show how several features in F# work together make it an ideal platform for creating high-performing real-time applications for a wide variety of application areas. Specifically, John will share with you how reactive event handling and lazy sequences can be used together to create a simple software-based audio synthesizer.

No knowledge of signal processing theory is required. John will start with a simple, non-technical and non-mathematical explanation of the basic concepts of digital signal processing. John will then build on that explanation to show how to design a basic signal flow and processing elements using pure functional elements, and how to make this signal flow interact with external devices in real time.

Functional topics covered will include: Seq & List; Event Handling; Sequence comprehension; Higher-order functions, particularly unfold. Have you done audio or music work with a functional programming language. Let us know on twitter or at beginning of the session, and we should have time for some show-and-tell at the end of the session!