I am wanting to learn to code a virtual instrument synthesizer, where should I start?

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  • surge

    Synthesizer plug-in (previously released as Vember Audio Surge)

  • See if you can get Surge to compile on your machine; then try to add an oscillator and a filter.

  • dragon

  • The main downside is that the debug environment is almost non-existent, so if you lock up the processor - for example with an infinite loop - it is very hard to understand what has happened. I have a debug-over-audio library on GitHub (https://github.com/tSoniq/dragon) that may be useful, although it will not help debug hard crashes.

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