Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Support code for synthesis?
From: David Gerard Matthews Jr. (dgm4+@pitt.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 29 2001 - 19:36:11 EET
You might look into jMax and PD. jMax handles its actual DSP code
through a library called FTS that can be separated from the Java-based
jMax GUI.
-dgm
andrew_AT_acooke.org wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking of writing some audio synthesis code - I want to play
> around with some ideas raised by the physical synthesis in Tau. Can
> someone point me to appropriate support software? I'm hoping that
> there is some kind of framework that provides MIDI, GUI and output
> support (so I just drop the synthesis code into some nicely documented
> API and it all looks and sounds really spiffy).
>
> Alternatively, what are the most reliable/supported/popular toolkits
> (for Midi, GUI, output)? Or should I look at modifying an existing
> open source synth? Somewhere, I've seen a description of a synth
> that's become part of KDE(?) - I guess that would be OK, too, although
> it seems odd to be neither OS nor user app.
>
> Also, I'm hoping that at least simple sounds will work in real-time
> (hence Midi), but expect some will require "batch processing". And
> I'm a software engineer (nee physicist), not a musician or Linux audio
> user, so my knowledge of existing apps is minimal.
>
> Basically, I want to spend as little time as possible implementing all
> the support gubbins (especially GUI programming, which I'm not exactly
> keen on)...
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
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