...building castles made of sound...
Synthcastle is a node-based sandbox for audio algorithms and sound design, like Max/PD but with higher level abstractions, closer to a modular synthesizer. I have only built this on Windows 10, compiled in Visual Studio. I would greatly appreciate any PRs to get this building on alternate platforms, as I do not own a mac and all my linux boxes are servers without displays. The chosen libs and technologies should help make this easier to port to other platforms. Synthcastle uses cmake, ImGui, PortAudio, RtMidi, and OpenGL (GLAD + GLFW).
- At the heart of synthcastle are the
nodes, which are DSP processing components that form the building blocks of each castle. - Freely assignable N-input + N-output per node graph-based architecture for flexible sound processing.
- Simple interface with as little menu/dropdown diving as possible, it should be nearly totally transparent as to the values of each node's parameters.
- Supports many processing blocks like oscillators, LPF, delay, distortion, mixing, panning, looping. Most nodes support modulation capabilities.
- Features a 4 voice sequencer with 128 session-storable patterns, many different scales plus randomness possibilities with the Probability knob.
- Graph-based architecture should make it fairly straightforward to add new nodes.
imguiUI overhaul has been merged to main
- Complete UI overhaul in progress using imgui, implot, imnodes
imguibranch now open for business
- Synthcastle text-based interface supports 8 voices, pattern command language, drum sample playback, LFOs, LPF, ADSR, reverb, delay.
- Synthcastle is born.
- Will Pirkle - Designing Software Synthesizer Plugins in C++
- Will Pirkle - Designing Audio Effect Plugins in C++
- Andrist and Sehr - C++ High Performance
- Scott Meyers - Effective Modern C++
- Anthony Williams - C++ Concurrency in Action
- https://learnopengl.com/Getting-started/Hello-Window