JSyn provides "Audio Software Synthesis API and Plugins for Java". I use JSyn as the audio synthesis engine for my gestural
synthesis system Drancing that synthesises sound, video, and control signals, from 3d accelerometers. You can
download some MP3s of Drancing with JSyn
to hear recordings of it at work.
From the JSyn site:
JSyn allows you to develop interactive computer music programs in Java.
You can run them as stand-alone applications,
or as Applets in a web page using the JSyn Plugin.
JSyn uses native methods written in 'C' to provide real-time
audio synthesis for Java programmers.
JSyn can be used to generate sound effects, audio environments, or music.
What a simply fantastic piece of software Phil Burk has developed ! It enabled
me to leave sluggish MIDI behind and embrace true gestural sound synthesis for
Drancing. I nearly exploded with joy when I first heard it working.
Only with true synthesis was I able to first experience the powerful
aural biofeedback that gestural music enables. Well done Phil, I am truly grateful.
I'll be progressively presenting representations of the JSyn packages in Unified Modelling Language (UML)TM here,
and thanks to MagicDraw UMLTM's increasing support of UML2.0TM I'll be able to model the
system with port-based systems engineering. Indeed I think it provides the ultimate test-case
for UML2.0TM development, for it already uses a port paradigm, and it already runs
(whereas a lot of the UML2.0TM examples I've seen are unfortunately not linked to running systems,
a curious irony in the context of model-driven development).
2005-09-22:
new UML2.0TM Composite Structure Diagrams of the data acquisition components
and JSyn synthesis networks of DranceWare, with MagicDraw UMLTM. This is port-based system engineering for UML2.0TM and JavaTM !
