Version 6 of Silence is now available from http://www.pipeline.com/~gogins.
Silence is an extensible system for composing or programming music by means
of software alone. It is written in pure Java and has been tested on Windows
98 and Red Hat Linux 7.0.
Changes in this version include a new all-java software synthesizer with
plugin instruments, improved MIDI file translation, and the introduction of
base classes designed to facilitate composing music by programming using the
Silence class library.
As far as I know, Silence features the first user-extensible,
general-purpose software synthesizer written in pure Java. Instruments can
be programmed in Java using all facilities of Java, including external class
libraries. The programming model is similar to Perry Cook's Synthesis Tool
Kit (STK). A number of STK and Csound instruments have been ported to
Silence, including some physically modeled instruments such as the flute and
guitar.
In addition, Silence continues to work with MIDI and with Csound.
The new version of Silence will be demonstrated at the first dorkbotnyc
meeting, Wednesday, December 6th, at 7:00 PM, in Prentiss Hall at Columbia
University in New York City. See the dorkbotnyc site at
http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/dorkbotnyc for more details.
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