Sound Synthesis

SuperCollider is a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server as well as an interpreted Object Oriented language which is based on Smalltalk but with C language family syntax. The language functions as a network client to the sound synthesis server. SuperCollider project was written by...

Tao is a software package for sound synthesis using physical models. It provides a virtual acoustic material constructed from masses and springs which can be used as the basis for building quite complex virtual musical instruments. Tao comes with a synthesis language for creating and playing...

Nyquist is an easy to use language specially designed for sound synthesis and music composition. It is implemented in C and C++ and it combines a powerful functional programming style with efficient signal-processing primitives.


Platforms: Windows

Class for doing simple iOS sound synthesis using Audio Queues. Demo project that shows how to do simple sound synthesis using Audio Queues. The AudioBufferPlayer class takes care of setting up the Audio Session and managing the Audio Queue. Your code only has to implement a delegate to fill up...


Platforms: Mac

Nyquist is a sound synthesis and composition language offering a Lisp syntax as well as an imperative language syntax and a powerful integrated development environment.. Nyquist is an elegant and powerful system based on functional programming.


Platforms: *nix

BasicSynth is a software sound synthesis system written in C++. It includes C++ classes implementing a variety of signal generators, processors, synthesis instruments and score processing, command line and GUI synthesizers built with the libraries.


Platforms: *nix

foo is a sound synthesis framework which provides high-levelabstracted ways of creating and manipulating sounds via a schemelanguage interface. foo is designed for highest audio quality ratherthan highest performance.


Platforms: Mac, BSD, Linux

DT4 Identity-SA is an "artware" of Project 72, a type of screen-based installation with visual feedback and sound synthesis. It displays a new type of animation of aesthetic graphics and deformed reflection of user's image. Here is a movie describing the project. This is free, but donation is...


Platforms: Mac, iSight

Cecilia is a graphic user interface for the sound synthesis and sound processing package Csound. Cecilia enables the user to build very quickly graphic interfaces with sliders and curves to control Csound intruments. It is also an editor to Csound with syntax highlighting and a built-in...


Platforms: *nix

Csound is a sound and music synthesis system, providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms. Csound is not restricted to any style of music, having been used for many years in at least classical, pop, techno, ambient... Installation: If your...


Platforms: *nix

Photosounder is an editing and synthesis program that can open images and sounds indiscriminately, treats and processes them as images, and synthesizes them as sounds. Sounds, once turned into images, can be modified to achieve effects and results that couldn't be obtained in any other way, while...


Platforms: Windows, Mac

Meloncillo is a standalone Java program for composition of spatial sound. A GUI allows the placement of interacting objects and editing of trajectories which can generate data evaluated by a sound synthesis application such as SuperCollider or CSound


Platforms: Mac

Jack is a high performance, low latency real-time audio server. PyJack is a python extension which allows you to play and record using Numeric Python arrays as audio buffers. There are some potential problems involving new developments of the Jack client API. I have also received patches to...


Platforms: *nix

GtkHx project is a GTK+ Hotline Client based off of Hx. After years of work on GtkHx, project founder and primary coder Misha Nasledov has handed over the project to Justin Turner Arthur on 2004-02-11. Misha is pursuing an education and is working on a new project concerning sound synthesis....


Platforms: *nix

Common Music (CM) is an object-oriented music composition environment. Common Music produces sound by transforming a high-level representation of musical structure into a variety of control protocols for sound synthesis and display..


Platforms: *nix

libsidplayfp was specially designed as an Open Source fork of libsidplay2, a C64 music player library which integrates the reSID SID chip emulation into a cycle-based emulator environment, started with primary purpose to improve emulation of the C64 system and the SID chips.


Platforms: Windows

ixiQuarks is a software environment designed for live improvisation that allows for user interaction on hardware, GUI and code level. The environment enables innumerable setups with flexible loading of tools and instruments. The ixiQuarks consist of different types of tools: basic utilities,...


Platforms: Mac

Nyquist is a sound synthesis and composition language offering a Lisp syntax as well as an imperative language syntax and a powerful integrated development environment.. Nyquist is an elegant and powerful system based on functional programming.


Platforms: Mac

EmoFilt enables the free-for-non-commercial-use speech synthesis engine MBROLA to sound emotional by manipulating the phonetic description. It does so by modifying melody and rhythm of the speech, matching a target emotion. It is available for 34 languag


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

The Python Sound Project aims to develop a productive community around Python, Csound and other synthesis engines as tools for algorithmic composition of electroacoustic music.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux