In this tutorial we will see how to make our own MIDI controlled soft synths using some of the various audio programming languages available in the opensourcesphere: Csound, SuperCollider, and Chuck.

For each of these languages, I'll show you a basic template (1 sine oscillator + 1 ADSR) that you can use as a starting point to make more interesting instruments.

I have just released the code I've written so far to use Squeak as a programming environment for creating GUIs for SuperCollider. It is a mere 16KB but I'm already having a lot of fun with it.

You can learn more about this project, and get the source, here.

In the last few days I've been experimenting with making two of my favorite open source programs, Squeak and SuperCollider, work together.