Crimson Technology WaveSynth and Synthesis Library for iPhone

"WaveSynth is a wave table synthesizer keyboard application for iPhone / iPod touch with 128 preset sound tones and 1 drum set defined by General MIDI specification.

It is possible to play various musical instruments sound tone such as piano, guitar, trumpet, strings, flute, drums, percussions and so on.

The keyboard can be selected by 1 octave keyboard or 2 octave keyboard on the display. In every sound tone, most suitable octave is assigned automatically or to be chosen by manual.

In addition to normal keyboard play, various expressions could be added by the Pitch Bend Controller, Portamento, Mono Mode.

Vibrato(Modulation) effect is available if you shake the body."

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Crimson Technology
On the iPhone synthesizer software library:
"CRIMSON TECHNOLOGY, Inc. (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Kazuo Hikawa, CEO) has started to deliver the license of software based synthesizer library for iPhone™ and iPod® touch of Apple Inc. (USA).

By integrating this library, playback capability of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) files or musical instrument playability will be added on iPhone and iPod touch.

Especially, by combining the rich sound functionality provided by this library and the excellent user interface with iPhone and iPod touch, it is possible to integrate a realtime music performance and / or MIDI file sound playback capability in user application program resulting a big differential advantage to the others.

As this library is based on the DLS (Downloadable Sounds) standard format, in addition to the capability to play the MIDI contents such as Karaoke and so on, this library also can incorporate any kind of additional sounds due to the DLS file format.

CRIMSON TECHNOLOGY, Inc. will provide the license of this library and is planning to develop and sell various applications utilizing this library."
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"Synthesizer Engine Library
* High Portability
o Independent from OS/CPU/Platforms
* MIDI Module Specification
o GM (General MIDI)
o GS (Roland)
* Supported Various Targets
o Light Processing -> for Embedded (Mobile Phone / PDA / Smart Phone)
o High Quality -> for Professional Karaoke / Instruments
* Internal Effects
o Reverb
o Chorus
o Delay
o EQ

MIDI Player Library
* Provide MIDI File Player API
o Easy to Construct Player / KARAOKE Applications
o Provide Time Synchronization Method for Lyric, etc.
o Support Key / Tempo / Guide Melody Control
o Sample Accurate MIDI Rendering
o Can be used as MIDI to Wave File Converter
* Support Various OS and Platforms
o Windows, Windows CE (Windows Mobile / Pocket PC), Mac OS X / iPhone OS, Linux, BSD, VxWorks, ... etc.
* Support Various Standard File Formats
o SMF (Standard MIDI File), MIDI Triggered Wav / AIFF / ADPCM, etc.
o M-compression® (Original Compression Engine for Ringtone File)

MIDI Driver Library
* Provide Real-time MIDI API
o Replace Hardware MIDI Module
o Easy to Construct Virtual Instrument, MIDI Sequencer, etc.
o Includes MIDI File Player
* Support Various OS and Platforms
o Windows, Windows CE (Windows Mobile / Pocket PC), Mac OS X / iPhone OS, Linux, BSD, VxWorks, ... etc.
o Emulate Win32 API (midiOut*() / midiStream*())
* Support Various Standard File Formats
o SMF (Standard MIDI File)
o M-compression® (Original Compression Engine for Ringtone File)
* Low-Latency Solution
o Support Steinberg / ASIO 2.1

And More...
* Various MIDI Authoring Tools
o Various File converters Available
o Support Software Instrument Plug-In (VST / AU: Audio Units)
* Customization
o Porting to Specified OS and Platforms
o Add Various Algorithm and Effects
o Add New File Format
o AVGM (Advanced Voice Guide for Music)
+ MIDI + TTS (Text to Speech) for Karaoke Applications"