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

I'm one of the other contributors to Tonic along with morgancodes. For wrangling CoreAudio in a higher-level framework, I can't give enough praise to The Amazing Audio Engine.

We've both used it in tandem with Tonic in a number of projects. It takes so much of the pain out of dealing with CoreAudio directly, letting you focus on the actual content and synthesis instead of the hardware abstraction layer.