Anyone interested in this should also check out ChucK: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChucK" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChucK</a>
Sam Aaron, the guy who has done a bunch of screencasts with Overtone (and his emacs/dvtm config), and used it to create this emacs config setup, has used the same effect on pretty much everything. It really does add an element of coolness to the mix.<p>I've been using emacs live for a bit. It's great. It bundles some nice plugins and has sane defaults. The cyberpunk colour scheme is cool. It has some nice personal touches on the scratch buffer.<p>The downside is that the structure puts far more emphasis on maintaining the structure than adapting your config. If you want to keep it solid you can't use package manager without some changes, or (configure-group).<p>You might get the odd issue with the bundled plugins (auto-complete loved lisp and file system traversal but hated other languages), but for a "I want to live code and I want it to WORK" config, it's bloody good.
Another similar project, SuperCollider: <a href="http://supercollider.sourceforge.net" rel="nofollow">http://supercollider.sourceforge.net</a><p>And if you're on a Mac, Impromptu: <a href="http://impromptu.moso.com.au" rel="nofollow">http://impromptu.moso.com.au</a>
oh i like, how does this compare to pd and max/msp, apart from the fact that those are visual.<p>it seems that the overtone guys want to add a visual display in the future. but most comparisions of supercollider and max/msp are mainly focused on the frontend.<p>is there anything i can do with max that i can't with sc besides looking pretty? (although i do prefer a nice editor to a visual thingie)