On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:48:40AM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
