What is the Synthesis Toolkit

The Synthesis ToolKit in C++ (STK) is a set of audio signal processing and synthesis C++ classes and algorithms. Yon can use these classes to create programs that make sounds tvith a variety of synthesis techniques. This is not a terribly novel concept, except that the Synthesis Toolkit is extremely portable (it s mostly platform-independent C and C++ code), and it is completely user-extensible (no libraries, no hidden drivers, aU source code is included). This means that the code yon write today (and the code we ve written over the last 10 years) win stiU work in another 10 years. It cunently runs tvith real-time snpport (audio and MIDI) on SGI (Mx), Linux, Windows, and Mac (OSX) computer platforms. Non-real-time support has been tested nnder NeXTStep, SunOS, and other platforms, and should work for soundfile creation with any standard C++ compiler. 

For those instances where a simple GUI with sliders and buttons is helpful, we use Tcl/Tk (which is freely distributed for all the supported TooIKit platforms). A number of Tcl/TTt GUI scripts are distributed with the TooIKit release. For control, the Synthesis Toolkit uses raw MIDI (on supported platforms), and SKINI Synthesis TooIKit Instrument Network Interface, a MIDI-like text message synthesis control format). See the TooIKit documentation at http //www.akpeters.com/rss/ for more information on SKINI. 

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