"Normally a language of this type is too slow to do signal processing." That is one of the founding principles of many current sound synthesis programming tool

"Normally a language of this type is too slow to do signal processing." That is one of the founding principles of many current sound synthesis programming tools. In light of the recent developments in JIT-enhanced languages (I'm thinking of LuaJIT), it should now be possibles to work with less layers and more freedom, directly with the samples, in a high level language. And now comes the plug: This is exactly what protoplug allows you to do, and as a VST plugin it works inside modern music-making software: http://www.osar.fr/protoplug/ http://www.osar.fr/protoplug/ Obviously the design goals are very different from something like Vivid, and it doesn't have the SuperCollider features to back it up.