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http://synthmaker.co.uk/ http://synthmaker.co.uk/about.html < pictures

This tool is designed for audio DSP, but is not limited to that. If you're interested in this topic, I recommend downloading the trial, putting it in advanced mode, and just futzing about for a few hours.

It's very accessible and fast to work with, and could be adapted to quite a lot of non-DSP tasks. I would love to see it generalized: the modules within are how I feel libraries should present. Draw graphs for data flow or complex functions, open up a code box for tight procedural stuff. Perhaps not what the author had in mind, but audio synthesis of this kind is event-driven, asynchronous and features a high degree of interactivity, so it may be worth further exploration.

Please email if you know about this kind of cool stuff in other contexts.



Very impressive software. Unfortunately it is windows only and closed source. If only there was an open system like this that could be generalized and extended.


http://puredata.info/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Data

I'm sure there's more out there. It's a pretty common paradigm for audio/interactive software. cf. Max/MSP, Reaktor, Audiomulch.




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