A real-time MIDI music synthesis system using sinusoidal modeling on a TI TMS320C32 digital signal processor

This paper describes a real time MIDI music synthesis system using a low cost digital signal processor such as the TI TMS320C32. The system consists of a MIDI device, an IBM compatible personal computer, and a TMS320C32 development board where the core of the music synthesis engine resides. The MIDI device generates MIDI data which is decoded into music synthesis commands, the host computer handles communications between the MIDI device and the DSP where music samples are reproduced using sinusoidal modeling based music synthesis techniques. A detailed description of the interface between MIDI device, host computer and DSP is provided.