Music and New Technologies - Conservatory "A.Casella" in L'Aquila- Italy

Tools for Computer  Music.

This is a page of links only to free or Open source tools. See also the similar pages on tools for digital signal processing, and for acoustics and psychoacoustics.

Pure Data

This is the  Open Source package by Miller Puckette, an evolution of  Max/MSP, to which is quite similiar.

jMax

"jMax is a visual programming environment for building interactive real-time music and multimedia applications". IRCAM.

GRM Tools

"GRM Tools is the result of more than 50 years of cutting-edge research and experimentation in Paris, France." 

Supercollider

This is the application by  James McCartney for real time and batch synthesis. Now free for MacOs and Windows32. Here a porting for Linux.

Libsndfile

 Open source multiplatform, C library, for reading/writing audio files. Near every file format is supported, including lossless FLAC audio compression. Mp3 is not supported, due to Fraunhofer licensing issue.

Portaudio

Open source multiplatform, C library, for audio input/output. Supports also "low-latency" drivers such as  ASIO in Windows and ALSA in Linux. (Portaudio on Wikiopedia)

Open Sound Control (OSC)

OpenSound Control ("OSC") is a protocol for communication among computers, sound synthesizers, and other multimedia devices that is optimized for modern networking technology and has been used in many application areas.

SDIF

A new tentative standard in sound file and straming.

The Sound Description Interchange Format (SDIF) is an established standard for the well-defined and extensible interchange of a variety of sound descriptions including spectral, sinusoidal, time-domain, and higher-level models. The SDIF standard has been created in collaboration by Ircam, CNMAT, and IUA-UPF


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