Beast Documentation

Documentation for getting started
Beast provides documentation from introductionary material to developer reference:


 * Beast/Bse Quick Start Guide - The Quick Start Guide shipped with Beast
 * Music Synthesis Under Linux (PDF) - A Beast Overview from LAC 2005
 * Beast Overview from 2003 (German) - Paper from the Beast presentation at LinuxTag 2003
 * API Docs - Reference documentation
 * Beast SoundFont Howto - Spoiler, code not yet merged.

Further readings
More extensive documentation and tutorials about audio synthesis in general is covered on a variety of places over the net, we've collected a number of interesting links to articles on this subject in the Synthesis Links section.