SOUL = SOUnd Language

Here's a talk with some actual technical content from the lead developer (who is Julian Storer, of JUCE):

https://youtu.be/UHK1QQM0bnE?t=922

One's heart sinks slightly at the words "new programming language" but it does look like a pretty sensible approach and, for all the hype, these people do know their onions.

The elevator pitch is "an equivalent to GL shader language, but for audio processing" - i.e. something you can embed in an application and compile for CPU use, but also implement at a lower level in hardware devices.

That's a wave animation and lots of happy text. At least show some language snippets? I wonder who upvoted this and why

There was a talk at ADC '18 on this: https://youtu.be/UHK1QQM0bnE?t=918

I haven't watched it yet, but am intrigued. I'll post a tl;dw if nobody else beats me to it.

This is a PR pitch to a market that only has very technical customers.

Probably just some GPU sound processing framework without any integration in existing ecosystems.

Why was this upvoted? This website has no information.

the same video with only the introduction to SOUL is here: https://youtu.be/-GhleKNaPdk?t=910

Why not use smalltalk? http://fastlabinc.com/Siren/