Designing Software Synthesizer Plug-Ins in C++

Contents

Preface

Foreword

Chapter 1 Synthesizer Fundamentals

1.1 Synth Components

1.2 Oscillators

1.3 Filters

1.4 Amplifiers

1.5 Envelope Generators

1.6 Basic Synth Architecture

1.7 Fundamental Goals of Synth Patch Design

1.8 Audio Data Formats for Plug-Ins

1.9 Signal Processing Review

1.10 Continuous Signals

1.11 Discretized Signals

1.12 The Laplace and z-Transforms

1.13 Aliasing

Chapter 2 Writing Plug-Ins

2.1 Dynamic-Link Libraries

2.2 C and C++ Style DLLs

2.3 The Application Programming Interface (API)

2.4 API Function Comparisons

2.5 The RackAFX Philosophy and API

2.6 Writing RackAFX Plug-ins

2.7 Setting Up RackAFX

2.8 Designing the User Interface in the Prototype Phase

2.9 Setting up Continuous Controls

2.10 Setting up Indexed Controls: ...