Gleam is a software sound synthesizer. It receives timestamped synthesis events such as note on or program change and generates a raw audio stream. Early versions will provide wavetable synthesis based on the SoundFont 2 standard, but support for other synthesis models may be added in the future.
Gleam is intended as a library that provides sound synthesis capabilities to other projects, but a few simple executable examples are included.
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To make installing Gleam easier, a binary release of Gleam is now available as a Debian package. This package has been carefully tested with lintian and is believed to be completely problem-free. A few notes about this package:
· For now it is only available for the PC (i386) architecture.
· The executables for Gleam's command-line tools are called gleam-playmidi and gleam-synth, to prevent potential clashes with other executables of the same name.
· Apart from these executables, the package also contains the development headers and static libraries. These will be split into a separate development package in the future.
Other changes in this release:
· Improved interface for command-line utilities.
· Fixed some MIDI controllers and added some missing ones.
· More lenient handling of some MIDI file errors.
· Fixed some incorrect implementations of the SF2 spec.
· Added debug instrumentation to synthesis to find problems more easily.
· Improved thread safety (thanks to gpothier for the patch).
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