Josh, if you're interested in trying one of these three environments, I've made a brief tutorial about making a midi playable soft synth with them: http://www.cesaremarilungo.com/node/17 BTW, Csound does LADSPA too. Ciao, -c. Justin Smith wrote: > Chuck, supercollider, and csound are all open source text based audio > environments that support ladspa and midi, and different degrees of > real-time change in your synth setup. Supercollider is probably the > most flexible, chuck is probably the simplest to jump into, and csound > is the most mature and most efficient cpu-usage wise, and has reams of > existing synth code to look at for examples, and the largest variety > of obscure or cutting edge synthesis generators, but it is not as > comfortable for real time synth building as the other two (it expects > you to design all your synths in "unreal" time, then control them via > midi or osc or whatever later, while the others allow modifying or > adding synth units or side chains while your synths are running). All > three are multi-platform and can interact with other instances over a > network, if you ever wanted to make a beowulf synth, or just try using > them all working together at once. If you can get over some aspects of > csound's design that are tied to it's 1984(?) vintage and musicN > lineage (calling synth units "opcodes", having "orchestra" and "score" > files, the not-quite-real-time design cycle etc), it is a hard audio > environment to beat. > > On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Julien Claassen <julien@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi Josh! >> Ecasound doesn't understand NOTE ON/NOTE OFF. Quel dommage. It can read MIDI >> controllers like a modwheel or some other knob. So you could do it more >> Theremin fashion. :-) >> It is true that ecasound now understands the ALSA sequencer API, but only >> for sending MID start/stop events and for reading controllers. It would be >> good if ecasound supported at least simple note on note off, but I think this >> would still mean, that there's a lot to do. :-( >> Kindest regards >> Julien >> >> -------- >> Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) >> >> ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== >> http://ltsb.sourceforge.net >> the Linux TextBased Studio guide >> ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= >> http://www.juliencoder.de >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-audio-user mailing list >> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
