Sound Programming

I want to write a software synthesizer. I understand concepts like samples, the basic math, etc. I just need to learn a sound API now so I can actually hear something.

Which one is the least retarded to work with? Cross-platform would be a plus, but I wouldn't mind using DirectSound if it's easy to work with. SDL is pretty retarded.

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Maybe I'm just retarded, but I can neither find a binary .dll + headers + libs anywhere on the net nor compile the fucking thing with make under MSYS. I'd love to use it, honest, but the developers of this thing obviously don't give half a shit about Windows developers.