The CREATE Signal Library ('Sizzle'): Design, Issues, and Applications

Abstract

The CREATE Signal Library (CSL) is a generalpurpose software framework for sound synthesis and digital audio signal processing. It is implemented as a C++ class library to be used to build stand-alone synthesis servers, or embedded into other programs. This paper describes the overall design and implementation of CSL version 3. We also present CSL's facilities for network I/O of control and sample streams, and the development and deployment of distributed systems. What is more interesting is the discussion that follows of the design issues we faced in CSL, and the presentation of several of the applications in which we've used CSL over the last year.