Audio Programming Tools

Users recommend programming languages, DSLs, and software like Sonic Pi, SuperCollider, Csound, Faust, Pure Data, and others for music synthesis, live coding, and audio generation.

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tmaly Aug 6, 2020 View on HN

Maybe with csound?https://csound.com/

ushakov Jul 29, 2021 View on HN

hey Nick, have you tried Faust?https://faust.grame.fr/

xipho May 25, 2021 View on HN

Do look at SonicPi [0][1].[0] https://sonic-pi.net/ [1] https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi

FoxDot is probably what you're looking for.https://foxdot.org/

sbuttgereit Aug 16, 2021 View on HN

I dunno... what about csound?https://csound.com/

yatakaka Jan 5, 2021 View on HN

Would be great if this could interface with Max, pure data, supercollider or some synthesis language.

emptybottle Jan 18, 2022 View on HN

Have a look into supercollider and tidalcycles

rurban Nov 27, 2017 View on HN

Online, dynamic music synthesis. pure comes from pd I think, puredata, which has as default an unoptimized graphical language. pure can deal with real-world musical problems much better.

enqk Feb 18, 2016 View on HN

Have a look at the Faust project:http://faust.grame.fr

Grustaf May 25, 2021 View on HN

Not answering your question, but if you're interested in audio programming you might find Pure Data interesting, it's sort of visual audio programming. It might seem like a toy but it's actually incredibly powerful: https://puredata.info