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Peter is looking for some Makers out there, he writes “Basically, the folks at National Instruments have added DSP (digital signal processing, useful for lots of audio applications — both industrial and musical), to LabVIEW, their high-end development platform for creating test / measurement / control applications. Here’s the cool part: they designed a free synth (as in musical synth) to run on the platform. Somewhere out there, there’s a scientist or engineer who’s going to love fiddling with this thing. It’s electronic music for Dr. Bunsen Honeydew. Know anyone in those communities (blogosphere or printosphere) who might be interested in this?” Link.
LabVIEW as a Synthesizer?
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday December 9th, 2005 12:34 PM
Categories: DIY Projects, Electronics, Music, Science | 3 Comments
I’ve started using SPICE (a circuit simulator) to do sound synthesis with.
Interesting, can you give details of using Spice for sound synthesis?
Spice is a general purpose dynamics simulation package, so you should be able to come up with anything you wanted as far as analog synthesis goes.
You could also use Simulink or matlab. Once you got it to work, you could use Real Time Workshop to export it into a compilable language. Of course, if you had to pay for that software you couldn’t afford it.
The fact that they apparently used some special purpose DSP hardware for the labview code was disappointing. Be better if you could just use labview with your soundcard. Seems like there is a dsp module for labview, I’ll have to check into it.
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