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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