Syd 1.06

Syd (formerly "SoftSynth") is a Macintosh based instrument editor and 
software synthesizer by Jim Bumgardner. It has a graphical "patch cord" 
interface, and is relatively easy to use, compared to other music languages. 
It is particularly suitable for teaching computer music. 

Syd has some of the power of the Music-N languages, but an
easier-to-use graphical interface.  It is well suited for
teaching computer music concepts.  A version for PowerMacs &
68k Macs can be found here:

     http://www.jbum.com/syd/

Source Code is available upon request to the author (jbum@jbum.com).


Syd is still very much a work in progress. Features still to come are: 

       Hammered string instrument (piano) simulation (in progress) 
       Spatialization. 
       Phase Vocoder. 
       More useful functions (ala Csound) 
       Custom (named) inputs to units. 
       JAVA version with standard unit template 

Features already in place include: 

       Graphical interface 
       Generalized expression unit 
       Full expression parsing for most other sound units 
       (Limited) ability to read CSound Scores 
       Instrument abstraction via Nested Patches ("folder instruments") 
       Random (algorithmic) Score generator (extremely useful!) 
       Real time audio previewing 
       Karlplus/Strong Plucked String unit 
       Delay/Reverb Unit 
       Sampling Unit 
       Butterworth filters