Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Support code for synthesis?
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 18:46:25 EET
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:
> > 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.
Yes, but there is not stard way of providing a gui to a LADSPA plugin
(yet...), if all you need is float/switch values then its great, but
otherwise you may be a bit stuck.
> You can use the "applyplugin" program for running non-realtime plugins.
> This program is included with the LADSPA SDK.
I would actually recommend ecasound, it can do offline too, and it has
less oddities than applyplugin.
- Steve
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