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https://github.com/PaulBatchelor/Soundpipe

A lightweight music DSP library.
https://github.com/PaulBatchelor/Soundpipe

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A lightweight music DSP library.

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Soundpipe

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Soundpipe is a lightweight music DSP library written in C. It aims to provide

a set of high-quality DSP modules for composers, sound designers,

and creative coders. 



Soundpipe supports a wide range of synthesis and audio DSP 

techniques which include:



- Classic Filter Design (Moog, Butterworth, etc)

- High-precision and linearly interpolated wavetable oscillators

- Bandlimited oscillators (square, saw, triangle)

- FM synthesis

- Karplus-strong instruments

- Variable delay lines

- String resonators

- Spectral Resynthesis

- Partitioned Convolution

- Physical modeling

- Pitch tracking

- Distortion

- Reverberation

- Samplers / sample playback

- Padsynth algorithm

- Beat repeat

- Paulstretch algorithm

- FOF and FOG granular synthesis

- Time-domain pitch shifting



More information on specific Soundpipe modules can be found in the

[Soundpipe module reference guide](https://paulbatchelor.github.com/res/soundpipe/docs/).



Features

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- High quality modules ported from Csound and FAUST

- Sample accurate timing

- Small codebase

- Static library

- Easy to extend

- Easy to embed



Compilation

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By default, Soundpipe needs libsndfile, and a standard build environment. 

Other modules that use other external libraries will need to be explicitly compiled

by modifying config.mk.



To compile:



make



sudo make install



Examples 

--------

To build the examples, go into the examples folder and run "make", which will 

create files with a .bin extention. To run an example, run "./ex_foo.bin". When 

an example is run, it will generate a 5 second file called "test.wav". 



Tests

-----



Tests in Soundpipe are used to determine whether or not modules behave as 

expected. Tests write the output of a module to memory, and check the MD5 hash 

value of the output against the MD5 value of a reference signal.



To build a test file, go into the test folder, and run "make". Then, run 

"./run.bin", which runs the tests. As the tests are run, an "ok" will appear in 

the log if a test passes, and a "not ok" will appear if a test fails. 



It is possible to hear the output of a particular test if you know the test 

number. You will need to have sox installed. For example, 

to hear what test 11 sounds like, run the following

commands:



./run.bin render 11



./write_wave.sh 0011.raw



This will generate a file called out.wav.



The testing utility has a few optional arguments. To see all possible arguments,

run "./run.bin help".



The Soundpipe Model

-------------------



Soundpipe is callback driven. Every time Soundpipe needs a frame, it will

call upon a single function specified by the user. Soundpipe modules are

designed to process a signal one sample at a time.  Every module follows the

same life cycle:



1. Create: Memory is allocated for the data struct.

2. Initialize: Buffers are allocated, and initial variables and constants

are set.

3. Compute: the module takes in inputs (if applicable), and generates a

single sample of output.

4. Destroy: All memory allocated is freed.



Documentation

-------------

If you have lua installed on your computer, you can generate the current html

documentation for soundpipe by running "make docs". A folder called "docs"

will be created. The top page for the documentation is docs/index.html.