Synth programming

[efecto]

I've coded a small softsynth, with oscilators, adsr, and all.

I could however use some pointers on how to set these settings for different kind off instruments, like drums, and other sounds.

So if anyone got some pointers or links?

And yes I realise if I've got to ask, I'm probably not the one that should be doing synth programming :-)

[hellfire]

I'd suggest to have a look at some commercial synth - they usually come with an extensive library of presets.
So you can interactively check what's doing what, how they use their stuff to create certain sounds and what features might be missing in your synth.
If you're familiar with trackers you can eg use VST-compatible synths with Renoise.
A synth that's not totally overblown is Z3ta.

After all the most difficult task in synth-coding is to make an intuitive gui.

[energy]

A very good tiny vstplugin is

4klang from Alcatraz.
http://4klang.untergrund.net/

Replayer + Sound comes as .obj file and is for a
2 1/2 minute Sound compressed with crinkler ca.2kb size
unpacked in mem about 65MB!