Soft synths

Something just occurred to me.

Can anyone tell me where I can down load a soft synth, that gives me the
capabilitys to:

*Microtune in cents, NOT 1/64th of a semi-tone, rather 1/100th of a semitone,
*That you can visually see the waveform and piano roll,
*Panning is possible,

...and that has effects, and such.

I really want to try out my new tunings.

It's not that I wouldn't be able to find a good soft synth with all the
bells and whistles, but it needs to be ALSO MICROTUNEABLE.

---Sarn.

At 01:52 12/04/01 +1200, Sarn Richard Ursell wrote:
>Something just occurred to me.
>
>Can anyone tell me where I can down load a soft synth, that gives me the
>capabilitys to:
>
>*Microtune in cents, NOT 1/64th of a semi-tone, rather 1/100th of a semitone,
>*That you can visually see the waveform and piano roll,
>*Panning is possible,
>
>...and that has effects, and such.
>
>I really want to try out my new tunings.
>
>It's not that I wouldn't be able to find a good soft synth with all the
>bells and whistles, but it needs to be ALSO MICROTUNEABLE.
>
>---Sarn.

Please try my software synthesizer at www.midicode.com. It has most of the capabilities you are asking for, microtonal tuning in cents or by ratio or a mixture, additive harmonic synthesis, something like a drawbar organ, with a waveform display and FM synthesis, effects unit, oscilloscope and more.

Peter Frazer,
www.midicode.com

> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 01:52:13 +1200
> From: Sarn Richard Ursell <thcdelta@ihug.co.nz>
> Subject: Soft synths
>
> Something just occurred to me.
>
> Can anyone tell me where I can down load a soft synth, that gives me the
> capabilitys to:
>
> *Microtune in cents, NOT 1/64th of a semi-tone, rather 1/100th of a semitone,
> *That you can visually see the waveform and piano roll,
> *Panning is possible,
>
> ...and that has effects, and such.
>
> I really want to try out my new tunings.
>
> It's not that I wouldn't be able to find a good soft synth with all the
> bells and whistles, but it needs to be ALSO MICROTUNEABLE.
>
> ---Sarn.

Two I like are JSyn and Silence. Both are Java-based, so you will need
to have Java development tools. Silence is wrapped around CSound, which
will do what you want but has a steep learning curve. The links for
these can be found at

http://www.borasky-research.net/Computer%20Music.htm

--
znmeb@aracnet.com (M. Edward Borasky) http://www.aracnet.com/~znmeb

How do you get an elephant out of a theatre?
You can't; it's in their blood!