DIY Digital synthesis, anyone?

[Steffan Davies]

Ray Peck wrote:
> 
> >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.

I have done this in the past. I should have said at the outset that I
meant in realtime :)
 
> 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.

I've been looking for this... the only ftp site I've found for it is
ftp.cecelia.mit.edu (or nearest offer), which refuses guest
connections.Does anyone have a handier location, with proximity to the
UK being cool...

> Also check out OutOfPhase.

I had a look at this once, on my Mac, but the machine has no FPU and was
punishingly slow. Does OOPhase exist for other platforms? I have access
to Linux and DOS, on a DX5-133 with 16Mb.

Steff (drifting rather from the topic. Sorry folks.)