Sonivox as a global realtime synth service?

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

Hi,

Greetings everyone! It is nice to find this group and finally having an Android MIDI API! Thanks!

I've contributed to a few MIDI projects (mostly for Linux) and recently published a port of my virtual piano for Android (play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.vmpk.free) that I plan to extend using the new MIDI API. This Android app uses as a realtime synth the Sonivox library which is part of the AOSP code base. I've embedded the lib into my app because it is not part of the public Android API. Now, it would be possible to build a globally shared service around this Sonivox synth using the new API, which I would like to develop for my own projects, unless of course this service would be offered by Android itself in the near future. This possibility seems so obvious to me that I need to ask if it is already being developed or planned, or there is some major roadblock that I've failed to notice.

Regards,

Pedro

[Phil Burk]

Hello Pedro,

Welcome to the group.  I tried out VMPK. It's really nice. I like the gyro control.

>  it would be possible to build a globally shared service around this Sonivox synth using the new API

Yes. We intended for third party developers to create synthesizers as a MIDI service. We hope to see lots of these. Please see this simple MidiSynth as a minimal example.

   https://github.com/googlesamples/android-MidiSynth

> unless of course this service would be offered by Android itself in the near future.

We do not comment on the content or schedule of future releases.

It is fair to say, however, that there may be quite a few MIDI synth services coming out this year from other developers. So do not expect to be the only one. But you might be the first!

Phil Burk

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