totally software synth?

[Don Duval]

There is a totally software synthesizer called Csound. There are many
Csound links  available at The Csound Front Page,
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Man/c_front.html

If you are using a PowerMac, there's a version which does not require
any external hardware at all. That particular version is available from
Mills College at http://www.mills.edu/LIFE/CCM/CCM_Software.html

The bad news is that Csound is totally text-file driven. The good news
is that you can create instruments of extremely high complexity. It just
takes the computer longer to produce the output.

I have not yet experimented with the MIDI connection,  but I'm fairly
sure that you wouldn't be able to play Csound instruments in real time.

Don Duval (former lurker)

Daniel Pascal Lamblin wrote:

> I would like to know your opinions on the feasability of implementing
> something like a Nord Lead 2; AN1X; or even Z1 completely on a
> computer.
> Just how virtual can virtual analogue be?
>  (a turing machine perhaps ;>)
> What sort of processing power and peripheral hardware do you think
> such a
> device would need?
>
> -Daniel