Sygaldry : logiciel réutilisable pour la fabrication d’instruments de musique numériques

Digital musical instruments are a family of instruments whose excited medium is digital audio signals. Their design and development has been the subject of research for over 30 years, and certain tools, techniques, and materials have begun to emerge as standard components for making digital musical instruments. In order to support the long-term maintenance and replication of these instruments, so as to enable long-term research and creative practice and foster the development of our collective digital musical instrument design savvy, we propose to develop a library of reusable digital musical instrument components. Existing libraries are unable to cover the wide range of components, hardware platforms, and software environments used in the making of digital musical instruments, due to issues of glue code, limited software interface, and runtime performance. Leveraging modern C++ design patterns based on compile-time reflection and metaprogramming, we address these issues. Our library, Sygaldry, provides immediate benefit to the replication, porting, and validation of digital musical instruments.