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GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMING / MAX/MSP-LIKE

  • gAlan the very cool graphical audio language, originally from Tony Garnock-Jones and now maintained by Torben Hohn

  • jMax MAX for Linux and '''Java''', from François Déchelle's team at '''IRCAM'''

  • OpenSoundWorld Amar Chaudhary's "...scalable, extensible programming environment that allows sound designers and musicians to process sound in response to expressive real-time control..."

  • Pure Data or Pd, a language from Miller Puckette



AUDIO PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (TEXT BASED)

  • ChucK an audio programming language for realtime synthesis, composition, and performance, from Ge Wang and Perry Cook

  • SuperCollider Programming Language Smalltalk like language for real-time audio synthesis. Server/client model.



COMMAND LINE TOOLS

  • Ecasound hard-disk recording and audio processing from the console. It has a non-interactive and interactive mode. Also scriptable from several languages like Python, Perl, PHP,...



RECORDING / EDITING



SOUND SERVER

  • ALSA — Advanced Linux Sound Architecture.

  • aRts the well-known soundserver for KDE.

  • EsounD the Enlightened Sound Daemon.

  • JEsd a Java implementation of '''EsounD'''.

  • JACK Audio Connection Kit

  • NAS the Network Audio System (''Another descriptive page is located'' here )

  • MAS the Multimedia Audio Server, a network audio server for X, from Shiman Associates

  • NMM Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware

  • polypaudio a sound server intended as an improved drop-in replacement for the Enlightened Sound Daemon (''esd'')



RADIO BROADCASTING

  • Rivendell : complete radio broadcast automation solution.