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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > -- > http://www.acooke.org
