where to start with audio synthesis on iPhone

Question

I\'d like to build a synthesizer for the iPhone. I understand that it\'s possible to use custom audio units for the iPhone. At first glance, this sounds promising, since the

Answer 1

With the enormous caveat that I have yet to get past all the documentation or finishing browsing some classes / sample code, it looks like the fine folks from CCRMA over at Stanford may have put some nice toolkits together for our audio hacking pleasure. No guarantees these will do exactly what you want, but based on what I know about the original STK, they should do the trick. I'm about to embark on an audio synth app myself and the more code I can reuse, the better.

Links / descriptions from their site...

MoMu : MoMu is a light-weight software toolkit for creating musical instruments and experiences on mobile device, and currently supports the iPhone platform (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touches). MoMu provides API's for real-time full-duplex audio, accelerometer, location, multi-touch, networking (via OpenSoundControl), graphics, and utilities. (yada yada)

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MoMu STK : The MoMu release of the Synthesis Toolkit (STK, originally by Perry R. Cook and Gary P. Scavone) is a lightly modified version of STK 4.4.2, and currently supports the iPhone platform (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touches).