Released - kSynth.Drone

posted: December 16, 2009

Introducing kSynth.Drone - a digital audio synthesizer gadget written in C# for Silverlight 3.

Try it out: http://kindohm.com/kSynth.Drone. I’ve also included a help page.

kSynth.Drone is a gadget and is not meant to be a tool used to make music. It’s meant to be a fun tool to craft interesting sounds using well-known building blocks of digital audio synthesis, such as oscillators, amplitude and frequency modulators, and dynamic envelopes.

This is the third release in the kSynth “series”. If you haven’t seen the previous apps, they include the original kSynth and kSynth.b. Both of those apps are more musical in nature than kSynth.Drone.

The inspiration for this app came from the desire to create any possible sound from basic digital audio synthesis components and to create a flexible user interface that wouldn’t look like a synthesizer deck or a bunch of knobs.

This app also utilizes a fluent Silverlight audio synthesis API behind the scenes. I haven’t yet released this API yet for anyone else to use and hope to in the very near future. I’d love to see other developers utilize the API to create interesting audio synthesis apps in Silverlight.

Hope you enjoy!