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Since we are all here, I have a question. I personally am much more interested in audio sample triggering and/or loop based production in this context than synthesis/wave generation -- and it seems like the overwhelming majority of tools are focused on the latter. In my head, I'm imagining a more programmatic approach to "arrangement of samples and loops," as in, instead of, or perhaps complementing, the classic "gri…
It might be worth studying the sources of some working soft synths such as Helm, Surge or ZynAddSubFx or mixed firmware-hardware synths such as TSynth. The latter in particular is a low cost polyphonic external module built around a Teensy microcontroller, so the code base isn't that big, and it sounds great.
https://surge-synthesizer.github.io/
https://github.com/zynaddsubfx/zynaddsubfx
Since we are all here, I have a question. I personally am much more interested in audio sample triggering and/or loop based production in this context than synthesis/wave generation -- and it seems like the overwhelming majority of tools are focused on the latter. In my head, I'm imagining a more programmatic approach to "arrangement of samples and loops," as in, instead of, or perhaps complementing, the classic "gri…
Sounds like you might be more interested in live coding. Overtone [1] can do what I think you are describing, and more--it's a frontend to SuperCollider, which has all the audio synthesis stuff you aren't interested in, but it can trigger samples fine. Of course, if Clojure isn't your thing, there are other live coding tools out there. I'm partial to Orca [2] myself. [1] https://github.com/overtone/overtone [2] https…
If you want this to play nicely musically you want low latency and I'd look for programming languages made for audio. Just watch a few introductions and pick what you like best.
More professionally I'm not experienced, but maybe writing a VST MIDI instrument would make sense.
If it's just about the sound maybe you should start at the DAW end and use Bitwigs Grid or Ableton (possibly with max/msp).
If you are a Ruby programmer on Linux, you could use this rubygem I wrote: https://github.com/mike-bourgeous/mb-sound
A video about using that gem to make a synthesizer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aS43s6TWnIY&feature=youtu.be
Part of a long-running experiment of mine to make educational videos about sound, which I hope might help you on your audio programming journey: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpRqC8LaADXnwve3e8gI2...
There have been recent posts to HN about the difficulty of reading key-up events from the terminal. I used MIDI and a separate MIDI keyboard app for my video demo.
Since we are all here, I have a question. I personally am much more interested in audio sample triggering and/or loop based production in this context than synthesis/wave generation -- and it seems like the overwhelming majority of tools are focused on the latter. In my head, I'm imagining a more programmatic approach to "arrangement of samples and loops," as in, instead of, or perhaps complementing, the classic "gri…
Sample wrangling becomes pretty thorny quickly as if you are triggering samples you want to make sure they don't "clip"/"pop" when you change them (due to discontinuities between the abrupt stop and the new start). I wrote a SuperCollider tutorial that demo's how to make a really high-quality sample player that takes care of these kinds of things plus gives you lots of control over rates, looping, etc. [1] That was my main hurdle with SuperCollider as that it has surprisingly few tutorials for such a long-running and deep program. Hopefully that helps :)
Learn C++ Real-Time Audio Programming with Bela - https://hackaday.io/course/171240-learn-c-real-time-audio-pr.... The course does recommend buying the Bela development board from https://shop.bela.io/ but I don't think it's a hard requirement.
I am comfortable writing low level efficient real-time code in C (I'm an ex game dev). I understand most synthesis techniques in pretty good detail. I could probably write a book on subtractive synthesis, and I have implemented a complete functioning FM synth.
I get the fundamental concepts around DSP: Nyquist, sampling, Fourier analysis, etc.
But when it comes to sitting down and, say, designing and implementing a filter from scratch, I'm pretty well stuck. Part of it is that most of the material I've found either goes straight to heavy calculus (which I can kind of hack but am pretty rusty on) or to MATLAB (which I don't have).
Likewise, implementing a simple digital sawtooth or square oscillator analytically is trivial. Sample playback is also a piece of cake. But doing those without aliasing seems to jump from super-easy mode all the way to hardcore nightmare. All of a sudden I'm trying to understand what minBLEPs are and other stuff that feels over my head.
Any recommendations on how to get over this hump? Should I get MATLAB?
I've been getting into this over the past couple of years too and I feel like I sort of hit a wall. I am comfortable writing low level efficient real-time code in C (I'm an ex game dev). I understand most synthesis techniques in pretty good detail. I could probably write a book on subtractive synthesis, and I have implemented a complete functioning FM synth. I get the fundamental concepts around DSP: Nyquist, samplin…