> I'm thinking of writing some audio synthesis code 

Sfront is aimed at the tasks you want to do:

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/index.html

Real-time MIDI, audio input, audio output, low-latency under Linux,
and MIDI networking support at low latency. Audio programming uses
the MPEG 4 Structured Audio language ...

                                                                --jl

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