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Open Sound World Open Sound World is a graphical programming environment for real-time music and audio applications. Users connect objects called transforms to form programs called patches. OSW currently runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and SGI platforms. hot amber Amber aims to be a flexible tool for granular synthesis. This synthesis technique is becoming more and more popular in the computer music world, and we felt that the current tools availible to do granular synthesis were not as flexible as one might hope. aPcStudio aPcStudio is a digital signal processor for several operating systems, useful for sound processing. Audiality Audiality is a scalable and portable audio engine for music and sound effects. It is intended to play equally well in studios and inside games, in order to serve as a flexible tool for content creation, and for use in the final product. Audiality uses MIDI files in combination with scripting and modular synthesis, to minimize file sizes and maximise flexibility. It is highly portable, and supports both integer and floating point processing. Babear (commercial) the only commercial speaker-independent speech recognition based on the Hybrid Hidden Markov Models/Artificial Neural Networks technology. This new technology provides robust continuous or discrete speech recognition for vocabulary sizes ranging from a few words to a few thousands words BEAST BEdevilled Audio System is a Gtk+/GNOME based front-end to BSE (the Bedevilled Sound Engine). BSE is a shared library that comes with the necessary framework to simulate audio synthesis (modular synthesis) and song composition as known from other popular "tracker" programs. BLOP bandlimited oscillator plugins for LADSPA hosts. Sawtooth, Square, Variable Pulse and Slope-variable triangle waves. Also includes a 4 pole low pass resonant filter, ADSR and a few other useful things buzztard The buzztard project aims to provide a free replacement for the Windows-only and closed source Buzz music production environment. It is based on a very modular approach that allows many people to get involved. CLAM CLAM is a multiplatform software framework for research and application development for the Audio and Music domains. It offers a conceptual model for building systems as well as tools for the analysis, synthesis, and transformation of audio signals using high level representation (notes, spectral peaks, etc.). It also provides multiplatform system abstraction and tools for audio and MIDI file handling, device handling, GUI and XML support, and more. It has proper Linux audio architecture integration (Ladspa, Alsa, OSC, Jack, VST, etc.) and rapid graphical prototyping both for the processing core and the user interface (Qt designer integration). CMOD CMOD, a module for composition, written in C++, is a ?floating hierarchy? that creates certain objects which could be themselves collections of objects. The objects are not necessarily produced in sequential temporal order. It consists of classes dealing with various aspects of a composition and a number of utilities. CMOD takes also advantage of LASS features such as the Envelope class. Common Music Common Music is an object-oriented music composition environment. It produces sound by transforming a high-level representation of musical structure into a variety of contol protocols for sound synthesis and display: MIDI, Csound, Common Lisp Music, Music Kit, C Mix, C Music, M4C, RT, Mix, VRML and Common Music Notation. Dissociated Studio Dissociated Studio takes a piece of audio, segments it into (by default) 0.1 second segments, computes a matrix indicating how similar each segment is to each other segment, and then plays the piece through, occasionally skipping from one segment to another similar segment, while displaying various either informative or spiffy-looking (or both!) displays. Emacspeak Emacspeak is a speech interface that allows visually impaired users to interact independently and efficiently with the computer. Audio formatting --a technique pioneered by AsTeR-- and full support for W3C's Aural CSS (ACSS) allows Emacspeak to produce rich aural presentations of electronic information. By seamlessly blending all aspects of the Internet such as Web-surfing and messaging, Emacspeak speech-enables local and remote information via a consistent and well-integrated user interface. Emu EMU is a collection of software tools for the creation, manipulation and analysis of speech databases. At the core of EMU is a database search engine which allows the researcher to find various speech segments based on the sequential and hierarchical structure of the utterances in which they occur. EMU includes an interactive labeller which can display spectrograms and other speech waveforms, and which allows the creation of hierarchical, as well as sequential, labels for a speech utterance. FreeWheeling FreeWheeling is a live looping instrument built for improvisation. Using a keyboard or a MIDI controller, it allows to build and control repetitive patterns from a live audio stream. HyperMammut HyperMammut transforms a sound or an image using a single large FFT window. It allows the user to apply many interesting and strange effects to sounds and images. IMPSKE IMSKPE is a graphical user interface for the formantsynthesis algorithms. It uses GTK2, has wav export, and can read and write par files. InSpect InSpect is a sound analysis program, made in order to look at the inner structures of sounds. The purpose of InSpect is to analyze a sound given its expression in the temporal model (audio signal amplitude versus time). The result of the analysis is a sound represented in a spectral model, which is mainly the sinusoids+noise model defined by Xavier Serra and Julius O. Smith. Lack Of Invention LOI is a realtime sound processing tool. You can use it as a software guitar pedal or a voice distorter or for any other realtime sound processing purposes you can think of. It uses LADSPA sound processing plugins. The core is written in C, the frontend is written in Python with GTK+ bindings, so it's easy to maintain and extend. linux-csound-wrappers linux-csound-wrappers is for the csound synthesis program and some other linux audio utilities. MARSYAS MusicAl Research System for Analysis and Synthesis) is a software framework. It is a collection of classes written in C++ and JAVA for various sound analysis and synthesis tasks. MuSE Streamer MuSE is an application for the mixing, encoding, and network streaming of sound: it can mix up to 6 encoded audio bitstreams (from files or network, mp3 or ogg) plus a souncard input signal, the resulting stream can be played locally on the sound card and/or encoded at different bitrates, recorded to harddisk and/or streamed to the net. When sent to a server, the resulting audio can be listened through the net by a vast number of players available on different operating systems. Musica Musica is a sound and music synthesis package for Mathematica, providing advanced facilities for composition, analysis and playback. MusicKit The MusicKit is an object-oriented software system for building music, sound, signal processing, and MIDI applications. It has been used in such diverse commercial applications as music sequencers, computer games, and document processors. Nyquist for Linux Nyquist for Linux is a Linux port of the Unix sound / music synthesis environment Nyquist written by Roger Dannenberg at Carnegie Mellon. OpenTranscribe OpenTranscribe is a software to aid musicians in transcribing music. It lets you slow down a part of the music without affecting pitch. It also lets you loop over a section which have some tricky parts. ptheremin ptheremin is a software-based audio synthesizer that simulates the Theremin instrument. It can also play discrete notes as if it had virtual "frets". The generated audio can optionally be saved off as a WAVE file. QRT QRT is a real-time soundfile mixing application modeled vaguely along the same lines as ProTools, at least in terms of visual editing of sound placement. It is also a scripted system, with variable-argument-count text commands representing each soundfile mixing event or other changes to the mix. These scripts are read and written by QRT to save and restore the detailed specifications of the mix. In addition to mixing, a growing subset of simple sound processing algorithms are also available, such as gain and pitch curves. rt_lpc rt_lpc is a light-weight application that performs real-time LPC analysis and synthesis. SMS SMS is a set of techniques and software implementations for the analysis, transformation and synthesis of musical sounds. The aim of this work is to get general and musically meaningful sound representations based on analysis, from which musical parameters might be manipulated while maintaining high quality sound. These techniques can be used for synthesis, processing and coding applications, while some of the intermediate results might also be applied to other music related problems, such as sound source separation, musical acoustics, music perception, or performance analysis. SMS FrontEnd SMS FrontEnd is an HTML-based GUI for a sound database and a processing software based on SMS. SNDAN SNDAN is a package of programs for spectrum analysis, graphics, modification, and resynthesis specifically designed for monophonic musical sounds. Two programs are available for spectral analysis of single channel sound files to produce analysis files containing the time-varying amplitudes and frequencies of the components comprising the sounds. Another program is used to display, modify, and resynthesize sounds from the spectral data. There are also a variety of other programs for resynthesis and for display of time domain data. Spectroscopic Toolkit Spectroscopic Toolkit offers 64-bit integer-DSP for massive additive synthesis. The software is not designed for realtime use, and it offers no graphical user interface. It produces audio files and graphic images - at its' own pace - and is therefore highly portable. Subvert Audio A sound synthesis system, the main aim of which is to try and stimulate the user's creativity. SuperCollider a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server as well as an interpreted Object Oriented language which is based on Smalltalk but with C language family syntax. The language functions as a network client to the sound synthesis server sverb sverb is an order 15 CFDN reverberation algorithm. The audio data it produces should sound good, and its operation should not use too much CPU time. The Analysis & Reconstruction Sound Engine The Analysis & Recontruction Sound Engine analyzes a sound file into a spectrogram and is able to synthesize this spectrogram, or any other user-created image, back into a sound. The DaisyPlayer Project DaisyPlayer is a program for playing Digital Talking Books (DTB). Its main focus is to make a library with a small, easy-to-use API, making it easy for other developers to write their own daisy players without having much knowledge about the Daisy format and standards. A console and a GUI front-end are available for this library to demonstrate how it can be used in practice and for those who just need a simple daisy player. Theo Verelst Additive Synthesis Program This sound program, which is organized as a simple command line execution based server, is written in C, and contains a additive synthesis core based on in main memory sound sample memory. Virtual Sound Virtual Sound provides unlimited effects and modulation for sophisticated audio generation, with unique instrument simulation capabilities to craft your own unique soundscapes. Waveform Waveform is a function graph drawing/rendering application for use with audio applications. Exports .wav files. wigwamjam wigwamjam grows sounds using your decisions to drive the evolution of genetically programmed synth functions. WONDER Wave field synthesis of new dimensions of electronic music in realtime: WONDER is designed to provide an interface between a wave field synthesis system and the software or hardware composers and performers of electronic music are used to. xwax xwax allows DJs and turntablists to playback digital audio files controlled using normal turntables via timecoded vinyl. It handles needle drops, pitch changes, scratching, spinbacks, and rewinds, making it a capable tool for beat-mixing and scratch-mixing. It focuses on an accurate vinyl feel that is efficient, stable, and fast.
