Looching

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My favorite NeXT program

The original looching interface on the NeXT

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by R. Luke DuBois.

Looching is the most basic of RTcmix interfaces, and is a port of a really old, really great, MusicKit app written by Brad Garton for NeXTStep. His words:

"Looching" is a program which generates pseudo-NewAge (or perhaps it's the Real McCoy!) music using the Motorola DSP chip. I wrote it because I like to have long droning sounds going while I stare at error messages, read news, move windows around on the screen, etc. One of the considerations that went into the design of the program was to make it place as light a load on the main CPU as possible, so that "Looching" can be hidden away to do it's droning without interfering. (from Brad's original README file)

RTcmix Looching has an interface suspiciously similar to the original, and sockets to a RTcmix WAVETABLE process, sending bunches of notes at a time, and then sleeping for a while. The two rows of radio buttons select one of seven different pitch sets and waveforms, respectively, and the "RELAX" button starts the thing up. The Looch button doesn't do anything, but it looks cool.