>First, let me repeat: I am desperately searching or trying to make,
>whichever works, a general-purpose software synthesizer that has the
>academic computer goodies that Csound has, inside the standard
>Microsoft-world COM interfaces so it works with COM clients, as a DSP
>plugin, for writing tracks inside of hard disk recorders/editors, and so
on.

I don't know if this helps at all:


http://sound.media.mit.edu/mpeg4/

Hans Mikelson