PortAudio - Portable Audio Library

Last updated 5/30/01.

PortAudio is a cross platform, open-source, audio I/O library proposed by Ross Bencina to the music-dsp mailing list. It lets you write simple audio programs in 'C' that will compile and run on Windows, Macintosh and Linux. PortAudio is intended to promote the exchange of audio synthesis software between developers on different platforms, and was recently selected as the audio component of a larger PortMusic project that includes MIDI and sound file support.

For complete information on PortAudio and to download the latest releases, please visit "http://www.portaudio.com".

Documentation

The PortAudio API is described fully in the "portaudio.h" include file.
Here is a short Tutorial on how to program using PortAudio.
Here is an Implementation Guide for people creating new versions of PortAudio.
For more information please visit Ross Bencina's PortAudio Page.

Contacts and E-Mail List

If you are using or implementing PortAudio then please join the PortAudio mail list generously administered by Bill Eldridge.
If you find bugs in one of these implementations, or have suggestions, please e-mail them to Phil Burk.
If you make improvements to the library, please send them to us so we can incorporate the improvements.

License

PortAudio Portable Real-Time Audio Library
Copyright (c) 1999-2000 Ross Bencina and Phil Burk

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
Any person wishing to distribute modifications to the Software is requested to send the modifications to the original developer so that they can be incorporated into the canonical version.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND ON INFRINGEMENT.
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