Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Support code for synthesis?
From: andrew_AT_acooke.org
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 17:31:48 EET
Hi,
I did look at LADSPA, and read some old email discussion, which made
me think it wouldn't be suitable (something about the plugin not
knowing the total time). But now that I think about it, I can't see
how that's a problem, so I'll look again.
Thanks to the other repliers too - I'll check everything out.
Andrew
On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 02:06:41PM +0100, Jelle wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:48:40AM +0000, andrew_AT_acooke.org wrote:
> > 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).
>
> I believe LADSPA was written to do just that, seperate the DSP code
> from the rest. Have a look at http://www.ladspa.org/
> Get the SDK and a host to run the plugins.
>
> > 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.
>
> I think LADSPA would be just fine.
>
> > 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.
>
> You can use the "applyplugin" program for running non-realtime plugins.
> This program is included with the LADSPA SDK.
>
> Cheers.
> --
> jelle herold (defekt) http://defekt.nl/
> seeing digital http://channelthree.net/
>
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