I’m the dev of Electrum drum and yes the cupcake release will support audio from memory, which is what we need for synths. I’ve updated my machine to work with it but the official SDK is not out yet so I can’t release it yet. It does work much better now with live audio and you can change parameters now while it’s playing.

I planned on looking into adding a synth to the drum as well, but another issue is that Android is written in Java, so I don’t know if it will have the speed required to create and mix so many waveforms and keep up.

-niko

1.0.1 was submitted to Apple earlier today; it’s designed to address issues caused by saturation, i.e. the so-called “glitch,” among other things.

Actually, this site does a pretty good job:

http://the-palm-sound.blogspot.com/

I’m looking at the 1.5 “Cupcake” SDK now, and it looks a whole lot better. The JET interactive music engine is baked into 1.5, which gives you some nice MIDI stuff and basic sampled soft synths. I’m not entirely sure the buffer callback stuff is what we were waiting for, but I’m looking into that. You’re still writing in Java, which isn’t always ideal for life synthesis, and I have a lot more questions about timing and audio. But my suspicion is you’ll be able to do *something* interesting. And in fact, if it’s a little different than what you can accomplish on iPhone, maybe that’ll force us into exploring some different areas in mobile apps.