Projects

FluidSynth

FluidSynth is a real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications. FluidSynth can read MIDI events from a MIDI input device and render them to an audio device using SoundFont instruments. SoundFont files are composed of digital audio "samples" and additional instrument ... [More] parameters. These files can be created or downloaded off the Internet. FluidSynth also has support for controlling effects in real time and can play MIDI files. [Less]

Qsynth

Qsynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. Eventually it may evolve into a softsynth management application allowing the user to control and manage a variety of command line softsynth but for the moment it wraps the excellent FluidSynth. ... [More] FluidSynth is a command line software synthesiser based on the Soundfont specification. [Less]

MuSE

MusE is a MIDI/Audio sequencer with recording and editing capabilities written by Werner Schweer. MusE aims to be a complete multitrack virtual studio for Linux, it is published under the GNU General Public License. MusE has among other things support for: * Midi sequencing ... [More] (Record/Playback/Import) (Input filter) * Audio sequencing (Record/Playback several mono/stereo inputs/outputs.) (AudioGroups) * LASH (Perform audio effects like chorus/flanger in realtime!) * Jack - jack-audio-connection-kit (Use the jack for midi/audio routing.) (Internal Audio Routing Interface) * ALSA - based on the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture [Less]

hydro2sf2

This script (hydroToSf2) is a tool which allows you to convert a Hydrogen drumkit into a SF2 soundfont. It uses Learjeff's soundfont tools to do all the hard work. Requirements:To use the conversion functions (ie if you have flac or other-then-wav formatted drum samples) You will need flac and ... [More] sox in your path. You'll also need pyxml, and tarfile for python (most people should have these) tested on Python 2.4.3 on Ubuntu Dapper Linux and Python 2.5.2 on Intrepid To get what you need there, type: sudo apt-get install python python-xml flac sox Quick usage:Download drumkits from http://www.hydrogen-music.org/?p=drumkits If it's a .h2kit file, just run the script like this: ./hydroToSf2 filename.h2kit (replace filename.h2kit with the file)if you want to convert an already-installed (in hydrogen GUI) drumkit do this: ./hydroToSf2 $HOME/.hydrogen/data/kit_nameor ./hydroToSf2 /usr/share/hydrogen/data/drumkits/kit_name(replace kit_name withe the directory that has the kit.) What to do with .SF2 file?:In linux, use swami to look at/play the soundfont. fluidsynth is a command-line soundfont-loader that works for everybody. asfxload will load it onto your emu10k1 running alsa sfxload will load it onto your emu10k1 running OSS. Lately, I have been using linuxsampler. I wanted gig files for my soundfonts, too. I couldn't find any native linux program (maybe I'll write a script for that, too.) So, I had to use awave studio pro in VirtualBox (the output format I used was 1.x compressed Gigastudio.) A couple of the SF2 files had little errors, and I didn't have time to investigate, but the gig file has most of the hydrogen kits, except these. I heard that Translator can do this, and it runs in wine, so this might be another temporary option. After it is loaded you can sequence to it with seq24 or rosegarden or whatever. Why did I do this?:I like the tiny overhead of using my souncard's (emu10k1) built-in wavetable better then loading up hydrogen whenever I need a drum machine. Hydrogen is better then what you get with this, but if you don't need inline LADSPA effects, humanizing, etc, this is ideal. I also like using a single sampler to do all the work. Linuxsampler and fluidsynth have nice frontends, but also can be run command-line, which is also nice for a headless soundfont player. [Less]

Swami

The Swami Project - Sampled Waveforms And Musical Instruments - is a collection of free software for editing and sharing MIDI instruments and sounds. Swami aims to provide cross platform (Linux, Windows and Mac OSX) instrument editing and sharing software for instrument formats such as SoundFont, DLS and GigaSampler.

gleamsynth

Please visit the project homepage here. Gleam is a sound synthesizer library written in C++. It receives sound synthesis events such as note on, program change, pitch bend, etc, and produces a raw audio stream. Gleam is intended as a library rather than as a stand-alone program. However, some ... [More] basic example programs are provided that allow e.g. playing a MIDI file using a given soundfont. Design goals include: Well documented library API for use by external programs. Well documented and structured implementation to ease contributions by casual developers. Modularity so e.g. new synthesis models can be implemented with minimum impact on the rest of the codebase. Performance tweaks where they provide significant benefits or don't conflict with the other design goals. [Less]

waveharp

Wave Harp hopes to be a reliable musical interface and assist in the collection of musical sounds.