DIY Digital synthesis, anyone?

[Ray Peck]

>Really, these are rather ahead of what I want to do. I'm really
>just looking for something to convert a stream of digital data,
>provided by software I'm going to write, to sounds.

If that's all you want, you can find the format of AIFF or WAV or
whatever files, have your software write them, and use something like
SoundHack play them.

If this is what you want to do, you should really look at CSound.
It's a programming language designed just for this.  The older
versions could just write sound files which you would play later, but
the newer versions can play some stuff in realtime.

Also check out OutOfPhase.