Re: [fluid-dev] Do you provide a non-midi-oriented API?

[David Henningsson]

On 2011-03-23 12:24, Edmundo Carmona wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have this synthesizer I created in python. It's called pythogoras
> and I use it to be able to listen to music using different tuning
> systems. https://code.launchpad.net/~eantoranz/+junk/pythogoras I
> created this three samples of Air on the G String with it (careful,
> blasting sine waves):
>
> Pythagorean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq-SrgV7_Ow
> Just intonation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdL8aPQUOk0
> Equal temperament: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6XkgNT20Eg
>
> Now, I was looking around for other synthesizers to try to find
> something I could use to make the sounds coming out of pythogoras more
> realistic and found pyfluidsynth, which is a wrapper for fluidsynth,
> but the API is too midi-oriented and I need control at the wave
> frequency/amplitude level. Is it available with fluidsynth?

If you make your own synthesizer, which are not based on MIDI and the 
SF2 format, FluidSynth is probably not for you. You might be interested 
in algorithmic composition languages like CSound, Pure Data, or 
Supercollider.

// David