General Synthesis Packages

Ambergranular synthesis for Linux and MacOS
AudialityDavid Olofson's "audio engine... designed for playing music and sound effects..."
CLAMthe outstanding "C++ Library for Audio and Music"
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ChucKan audio programming language for realtime synthesis, composition, and performance, from Ge Wang ..
Dissociated Studiotakes an audio file, segments it, computes a segment similarity matrix, and plays the piece, skip..
FAUSTFunctional programming language for signal processing and synthesis
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Faust OnlineOnline Faust Compiler to write your own audio applications or plugins
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Fuguemusic
InSpectsound analysisresynthesistransformation from Sylvain Marchand
JASSthe Java Audio Synthesis System, from Kees van den Doel
Lorissound modeling and morphing software from the CERL Sound Group
MARSYASsoftware from George Tzanetakis for music analysis, retrieval, and synthesis for audio signals
MPEG-4 Structured Audio: Developer Toolsa page from John Lazzaro and John Wawrzynek, includes the indispensable <em>sfront<em>
OpenSoundWorldAmar Chaudhary's "...scalable, extensible programming environment that allows sound designers and..
SAOLSAOL * General Synthesis Packages
SAOLsoundPaul Winkler's project "... to provide resources for Csound users interested in exploring SAOL"
SMScomes from http:www.iua.upf.es~xserraXavier Serra
STKPerry Cook's excellent Synthesis ToolKit
Sapphirean audio synthesis language by Jim Finnis
Scripts: Soundfor Csound, PowerPV, and TrikTraks, from Drew Krause
SndObj/pySndObjVictor Lazzarini's "object-oriented cross-platform audio development tools and sample programs.....
Software Sound Synthesis & Music Composition PackagesSoftware Sound Synthesis & Music Composition Packages * General Music Composition Analysis Packages * General Synthesis Packages
Sounds in SAsome SAOL-encoded music
Spectroscopic Toolkit"64-bit phase oscillators for nanotonal synthesis", from Pieter Suurmond
Spiral Synthesismaterials from Tracy Lind Petersen
Squeaka Smalltalk-80 environment with built-in support for realtime sound synthesis
SuperCollider3James McCartney's famous realtime audio server and object-oriented sound synthesis language
TAPESTREA"Techniques And Paradigms for Expressive Synthesis, Transformation, and Rendering of Environmenta..
Taophysical modelling synthesis language and GUI, from Mark Pearson
The MusicKitis being ported from NeXTStep to Linux
Theo Verelst Additive Synthesis Programan additive synthesis program, from Theo Verelst
Varesesynthesiscomposition environment from Peter Hanappe
Virtual Soundaudio synthesis tools from Christos Dimitrakakis
WONDER"Wave-field synthesis Of New Dimensions of Electronic music in Realtime", software from Marije Ba..
fooscriptableinteractive non-realtime sound synthesis and audio processing environment, from Martin ..
gAlanthe very cool graphical audio language, originally from Tony Garnock-Jones and now maintained by ..
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rt_lpcreal-time LPC analysissynthesisvisualization from the Princeton Soundlab
wigwamjam"... grows sounds using your decisions to drive the evolution of genetically programmed synth fun..

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