Sound generation on the PC

Hi,
       Im interested in learning how to generate sounds (e.g. music 
synthesizer) on the PC with software, talking to a sound card.  Can anyone 
suggest some tutorials to get started?

Thanks,
Redd 

XIAOBIN HAOO wrote:

> Hi,
>        Im interested in learning how to generate sounds (e.g. music 
> synthesizer) on the PC with software, talking to a sound card.  Can anyone 
> suggest some tutorials to get started?
> 
> Thanks,
> Redd 
> 
>

Much depends on which bits are familiar to you (C programming? dsp?) and which 
bits are not!

go to:

http://www.musicdsp.org

there is a mailing list, a source code archive, wiki tutorials, links to all 
sorts of things. Note there are also mailing lists devoted to the principal 
audio plugin protocols (VST, CoreAudio), and to key open-source software such as 
Csound, STK, PD, etc. Also check out portaudio.com for a cross-platform library 
for record/playback.


Richard Dobson

Hi Richard,
         Thanks.   Yes, rasonable expert in "C", "C++", just getting into 
DSP (took an engineering course ages ago, covered FFT, etc, mostly the 
math).
          Thanks for the post.  Ill lookup the sites now.

Regards,
Redd.

"Richard Dobson" <richarddobson@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> XIAOBIN HAOO wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>        Im interested in learning how to generate sounds (e.g. music 
>> synthesizer) on the PC with software, talking to a sound card.  Can 
>> anyone suggest some tutorials to get started?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Redd
>
> Much depends on which bits are familiar to you (C programming? dsp?) and 
> which bits are not!
>
> go to:
>
> http://www.musicdsp.org
>
> there is a mailing list, a source code archive, wiki tutorials, links to 
> all sorts of things. Note there are also mailing lists devoted to the 
> principal audio plugin protocols (VST, CoreAudio), and to key open-source 
> software such as Csound, STK, PD, etc. Also check out portaudio.com for a 
> cross-platform library for record/playback.
>
>
> Richard Dobson 

You might just take a look at
http://www.ScienceOxygen.com/signal.html
http://www.ScienceOxygen.com/gadget.html

It is just with a collection of links that you
might start from there.

XIAOBIN HAOO wrote:
> Hi,
>        Im interested in learning how to generate sounds (e.g. music
> synthesizer) on the PC with software, talking to a sound card.  Can
anyone
> suggest some tutorials to get started?
> 
> Thanks,
> Redd


Have a look at Csound.

Regards,
Andor

Hi Andor,
           Thanks for the reply, and link
Regards,
Redd
"Andor" <an2or@mailcircuit.com> wrote in message 
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>
> XIAOBIN HAOO wrote:
>> Hi,
>>        Im interested in learning how to generate sounds (e.g. music
>> synthesizer) on the PC with software, talking to a sound card.  Can
> anyone
>> suggest some tutorials to get started?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Redd
>
>
> Have a look at Csound.
>
> Regards,
> Andor
>