Music 420 / EE 367A: Introduction to the Synthesis Tool Kit (STK)

JULIUS O. SMITH III

Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA)
Department of Music, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 USA

Abstract:

This is a slightly revised and updated version of Appendices A and B of ``Physical Audio Signal Processing'' [7].¹

Getting Started with the Synthesis Tool Kit (STK) under Linux

This appendix provides a ``getting started'' guide for the Synthesis Tool Kit (STK) [1,2] under Linux [6]. This guide is aimed at developers of STK software, as opposed to mere users. As a result, a couple of modifications will be introduced to facilitate software development (i.e., debugging C++ code). It is also assumed that some variant of UNIX is the resident operating system (Red Hat Fedora 4 [3] in the examples below).²

It is assumed that the reader already has some familiarity with programming in C and ideally also C++.