This project is a fork of the Android Open Source Project 'platform_external_sonivox', including a CMake based build system to be used not on Android, but on any other computer Operating System. Google licensed this work originally named Sonivox EAS (Embedded Audio Synthesis) from the company Sonic Network Inc. under the terms of the Apache License 2.0.
This is a Wave Table synthesizer, not using external soundfont files by default but embedded samples. It also supports external DLS soundfont files for better rendering quality. It is also a real time GM synthesizer. It consumes very little resources, so it may be indicated in projects for small embedded devices. There is neither MIDI input nor Audio output facilities included in the library. You need to provide your own input/output.
You may find several projects already using this library as a git submodule:
- Drumstick::RT multiplatform realtime MIDI library. It has a Sonivox output backend.
- Linux-SonivoxEas with ALSA Sequencer MIDI input and Pulseaudio output.
- multiplatform-sonivoxeas with Drumstick::RT MIDI input and Qt Multimedia audio output.
The build system has the following options:
USE_44KHZ: Renders 44100 Hz audio (ON by default). If set to OFF will output 22050 Hz audio.USE_16BITS_SAMPLES: Uses 16 bits samples (instead of 8 bit). ON by default. The rendered audio uses always 16 bits.BUILD_SONIVOX_STATICandBUILD_SONIVOX_SHARED: to control the generation and install of both the static and shared libraries from the sources. Both options are ON by default (at least one must be selected).BUILD_TESTING: ON by default, to control if the unit tests are built, which require Google Test.BUILD_EXAMPLE: ON by default, to build and install the example program.CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE: Whether to create position-independent targets. ON By default.MAX_VOICES: Maximum number of voices. 64 by default.
See also the CMake documentation for common build options.
This fork currently reverts these commits:
- Full revert of af41595 (Remove unused code from midi engine)
- Full revert of 34ba480 (Remove unused code)
- Partial revert of 2fa59c8 (Build separate sonivox libs with and without jet...)
All the sources from the Android repository are kept in place, but some are not built and included in the compiled products. A few headers, mostly empty, are included in the 'fakes' subdirectory to allow compilation outside Android.
You may find and use the installed libraries with pkg-config or the find_package() CMake command. The library API is documented in the 'docs' directory contents.
The 'example' directory contains a simple command line utility to render standard MIDI files into raw PCM audio streams. This utility may be compiled when building the library and also installed. You may find a standalone project containing this program here: https://github.com/pedrolcl/sonivox-example
You can use the program to listen MIDI files or to create audio files (like MP3 or WAV). These are the available command line options:
$ ./sonivoxrender -h
Usage: ./sonivoxrender [-h] [-d file.dls] [-r 0..4] [-w 0..32765] file.mid ...
Render standard MIDI files into raw PCM audio.
Options:
-h this help message.
-d file.dls DLS soundfont.
-r n reverb preset: 0=no, 1=large hall, 2=hall, 3=chamber, 4=room.
-w n reverb wet: 0..32765.
The following examples assume the default option USE_44KHZ=ON:
Example 1: Render a MIDI file and save the rendered audio as a raw audio file:
$ sonivoxrender ants.mid > ants.pcm
Example 2: pipe the rendered audio thru the Linux ALSA 'aplay' utility:
$ sonivoxrender ants.mid | aplay -c 2 -f S16_LE -r 44100
equivalent to:
$ sonivoxrender ants.mid | aplay -f cd
Example 3: pipe the rendered audio thru the 'lame' utility creating a MP3 file:
$ sonivoxrender ants.mid | lame -r -s 44100 - ants.mp3
Example 4: pipe the rendered audio thru the 'sox' utility creating a WAV file:
$ sonivoxrender ants.mid | sox -t s16 -c 2 -r 44100 - ants.wav
Example 5: pipe the rendered audio thru the PulseAudio's 'pacat' utility:
$ sonivoxrender ants.mid | pacat
The Android unit tests have been integrated in the CMake build system, with little modifications. A requirement is GoogleTest, either installed system wide or it will be downloaded from the git repository.
It is strongly recommended that you run the test suite after changing some code or before trying the library on a new platform/compiler. Some compiler versions are known to output crashing products. Running the unit tests is a practical way to quickly detect this problem.
To run the tests, you may use this command:
$ cmake --build <build_directory> --target test
or simply:
$ ctest
There are two environment variables that you may set before running the tests (mandatory for the Qt Creator integrated test runner).
TEMP < path to a temporary location with write permission for the output file >
TEST_RESOURCES < path to the location of the input MIDI files: source_directory/test/res/ for instance >
Copyright (c) 2022-2024 Pedro López-Cabanillas.
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Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Sonic Network Inc.
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