Csound

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

Denemo is a unique score editor which exports notation to LilyPond and ABC music formats. Denemo also acts as a frontend for Csound score files. Denemo is different from most graphic music editors, this is partly because it was created to help edit Lilypond notation and partly because of its... Platforms: *nix

LegaSynth is an old chip and synthethizer emulator. Current engines proovide very precise emulation of: - Yamaha DX7 FM - MOS6581 Sound Interface Device (or best known as the good old C64 SID :) - Yamaha YMH2K series (Soundchip very popular in small Yamaha keyboards/Arcades and the Sega... Platforms: *nix

Keso is an editor for scores and orchestras. Or, more precisely, a tracker-like GUI for the powerful softsynth Csound. It lets the user write music in patterns, and arrange those patterns in sequences. Keso will produce orchestra and score files that can be played or rendered by Csound. The... Platforms: *nix

CMIX is a computer music "language" designed to create and manipulate soundfiles, or files containing raw binary data which can be converted into sound on a computer equipped with an appropriate digital-to-analog convertor. It is somewhat similar to CSOUND and CMUSIC (two other popular software... Platforms: *nix

Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable distribution, an operating system which can also be installed just by copying a directory onto the hard disk. Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is user-friendly, recognizes your hardware devices (sound, video, firewire, and USB), and offers a vast range of software... Platforms: *nix

Allegory is a tool for electronic music. It consists of a small library of Haskell definitions that can be used to create, explore, and refine developmental/variation relationships between diverse sound materials. Csound required as realisation engine. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

FAUST (Functional Audio Stream) is a functional programming language specifically designed for real-time signal processing and synthesis. FAUST targets high-performance signal processing applications and audio plug-ins for a variety of platforms and standards. The Faust compiler translates DSP... Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

Software for live sampling and audio processing. Algorithmic composition and improvised audio manipulation in real time. The audio engine uses Csound, and the composition logic is built with Python. Platforms: Windows, Mac, BSD, Linux

athenaCL is a music analysis and algorithmic composition program. The system can be scripted and embedded, and includes integrated instrument libraries, post-tonal and microtonal pitch modeling tools, multiple-format graphical outputs, and musical output in Csound, MIDI, audio file, XML, and text... Platforms: *nix