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... Platforms: *nix

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... Platforms: *nix

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

Sound Grain is a graphical interface where users can draw and edit trajectories to control granular sound synthesis modules. Platforms: Mac

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

AudioMulch is an interactive musician's environment for computers running Microsoft Windows. Bringing together the popular with what has up to now been considered experimental, AudioMulch merges the worlds of mainstream electronica and electroacoustic sound composition to create a fluid sonic... Platforms: Mac

AudioMulch is an interactive musician's environment for computers running Microsoft Windows. Bringing together the popular with what has up to now been considered experimental, AudioMulch merges the worlds of mainstream electronica and electroacoustic sound composition to create a fluid sonic... Platforms: Windows

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

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 Features - Timeline and 2D Surface for... Platforms: *nix

Synplant is a software synthesizer with a genetic approach to sound creation. Instead of creating patches the conventional way by turning dials and knobs, Synplant lets you explore a world of organic sounds by planting seeds that grow into synth patches. The purpose of this product is to move... Platforms: Mac

The ESX Poly plug-in was originally created by Guido Smider and Matteo Battistini with the aim of performing digital sound synthesis on midi keyboards . Here are some key features of "ESX Poly": ?*A* 2 oscillator ?*A* 1 lfo ?*A* 1 filter with random cut off and resonance ?*A* 1 ring modulator... Platforms: Mac

Push forward into unexplored areas of sound design with NUKLEAR, the first virtual instrument based on advanced granular pulse train synthesis! Thanks to extensive research and experience, NUKLEAR is an intuitive and easy-to-use instrument which comes with a multiverse of high quality soundsets.... Platforms: Mac

Create computer-synthesized, electronic sounds... simply by moving your mouse! With a fluidly-dynamic, freeform-modular, sound synthesis system, you can create a virtually unlimited number of configurations, permitting for many different sounds to be made. You can add real-time audio effects to... Platforms: Windows