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Curated software, frameworks and platforms for sound-related practices.

6 entries

Tools

Sonic Pi
Standalone Application
Coding
Generative Music
Composition

Sonic Pi

Sam Aaron

Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and live coding environment using a Ruby-derived domain-specific language. Built on the SuperCollider audio engine, it provides synth definitions, sample playback, FX chains, and live-loop primitives, used in classroom computing education, live coding performance, and electronic music composition.

NOMN FOAM
Plugin
Sound Design
Composition

NOMN FOAM

POLYTOPE KK

FOAM is a real-time bubble-acoustics and foam-synthesis plug-in based on direct physical modelling of gas-liquid interactions. It models 11 acoustic stages of a bubble's life across up to 16,384 simultaneous voices on multi-core CPUs, with physics-driven parameters for liquid identity, foam topology, and population dynamics, used in sound design, electroacoustic composition, and experimental music.

GRM Tools Atelier
Plugin
Composition
Sound Design
3D Audio

GRM Tools Atelier

INA grm

GRM Tools Atelier is a modular environment for creative sound manipulation and generative synthesis. It comprises freely chainable processor and modulator modules — including granular sample playback, spectral filtering, pitch shifting, multi-tap delay, and comb filtering — with a polyadic modulation engine and unbounded multichannel processing, used in electroacoustic composition, sound design, and immersive audio.

Csound
Framework / SDK
Coding
Composition
Generative Music

Csound

Csound community

Csound is a sound and music computing system and domain-specific programming language for audio synthesis, processing, and composition. It provides an orchestra/score model with over 1500 opcodes including dedicated Ambisonic opcodes, used by composers, researchers, and educators across desktop, mobile, embedded, server, and web platforms.

ChucK
Framework / SDK
Coding
Composition
Generative Music

ChucK

ChucK community

ChucK is a programming language for real-time sound synthesis and music creation with a strongly-timed, concurrent programming model. It supports on-the-fly code modification, MIDI, OSC, HID, and multi-channel audio, with extensions for AI (ChAI), graphics (ChuGL), Unity (Chunity), and the web (WebChucK), used by composers, researchers, and live coders.

Anukari
Plugin
Sound Design
Composition

Anukari

Anukari, LLC

Anukari is a 3D physics-based synthesiser and effects processor that builds instruments from networks of masses and springs in a real-time interactive 3D simulation. Sources include mallets, plectrums, bows, oscillators, and audio inputs picked up by virtual microphones; full MPE and MTS-ESP microtuning are supported, used in experimental sound design, physical-modelling composition, and live performance.