Software Synth Library for Java [closed]

Answer 1

Yeah, I noticed JFugue a few years ago. It's on my list of interesting computer/music bookmarks:

http://delicious.com/BenjiSmith/computermusic http://delicious.com/BenjiSmith/programming.java.libraries.music

But JFugue is all about the structure of the music itself... the melodies, harmonies, rhythms, etc....

What I'm looking for right now is just the synthesizer. Something like this...

Synth s = new Synth();
Instrument i = s.getInstrument("Robot Bass");
i.makeAwesome(true);

And then I'll send my events into the MIDI stream (or into whatever control API the synth library provides).

Answer 2

If Clojure is an acceptable option (runs on the JVM, easy to integrate with Java), then it's definitely worth checking out Overtone.

It uses SuperCollider as the synthesis engine, but wraps it all in a nice DSL and interactive programming environment.

Answer 3

minim isn't exactly a java synth, but it is a processing lib and I imagine that it should be pretty easy to use with vanilla java too.

Answer 4

Have you checked out JFugue? It's an "open-source Java API for programming music without the complexities of MIDI".

Additional information: Found a couple of other resources referenced in the JFugue documentation (pdf):

• Audio Synthesis Engine Project: open source version of Java’s MIDI synthesizer

• Gervill: open source software synthesizer created as a proposal for the Audio Synthesis Engine Project