From jsyn at music.columbia.edu Sun Jul 20 12:01:52 2008 From: jsyn at music.columbia.edu (jsyn@music.columbia.edu) Date: Sun Jul 20 12:02:11 2008 Subject: [jsyn] Hey folks (new member introduction) Message-ID: Hello everyone, I just joined the list and wanted to let everyone that contributed to JSyn know how much I appreciate it. I just started exploring the tutorials and samples yesterday, and with the help of the great docs I managed to throw together the synth equivalent of "Hello World". I'm going to keep plugging away today and see if I can connect some LFOs and filters and get something that approximates an actual synth sound, but already I can see how extensive and powerful the codebase is. I've known about JSyn for quite a while, but just recently came back to it. I was looking for a way to get more out of music to accompany a Java game (a fairly simple sprite game, think Mario - nothing earth shattering) I've been noodling with. You can do some interesting things dynamically with midi, but I wanted to go beyond, to dynamic music synthesis, not just using midi sound banks. Ultimately, I'd like to have one or a number of synthesizers that I can tweak, wiggling filters, etc. during gameplay. I'm not sure yet if JSyn would work well for this, but that's what brought me to the library in the first place. If anyone has any experience using JSyn like that, I would definitely appreciate any pointers. I may end up going with a different solution entirely, but for the moment I'm content to use JSyn to create some synth applets. I'm going to go back to the code now - I promise not to annoy the list with newbie questions, at least not while the answers are out there. Thanks again, and if I come up with anything truly stellar I'll share it with the list. - Mike Marcus