Beat Frei

SynStart is a simple straightforward free open source framework for audio programming in C++. It contains the essential interface and book-keeping routines to build stand-alone real-time sound generators for the Windows platform: A polyphonic multitimbral voice manager, ASIO and DirectX audio, MME and DirectX MIDI, and a minimalist GUI. It does not provide predefined audio algorithms however. Instead, the developer retains full control over signal processing. The built-in example code shows how to create a MIDI-controlled polyphonic sine wave synthesizer with 18 code lines. Designed from scratch with focus on efficiency and low latency, SynStart not only is a practical research tool, but may serve as an initial point for professional projects as well. The recent version is released under the zlib license

SynStart 1.1 for Windows (zip)