Sound Synthesis Software for BSD

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    eSpeak: speech synthesis
    Text to Speech engine for English and many other languages. Compact size with clear but artificial pronunciation. Available as a command-line program with many options, a shared library for Linux, and a Windows SAPI5 version.
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    Downloads: 2,417 This Week
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    Hydrogen

    Hydrogen

    An advanced drum machine with pattern-based programming

    Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.
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    Downloads: 1,431 This Week
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    Gnaural

    Gnaural

    Entrain your brain!

    A programmable audio generator intended as an aural aid to meditation, implementing the binaural beat principle as described in Gerald Oster's Oct. 1973 Scientific American article "Auditory Beats in the Brain."
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    Downloads: 642 This Week
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    eGuideDog free software for the blind
    eGuideDog project develops free software for the blind. Currently, we focus on WebSpeech, Ekho TTS and WebAnywhere.
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    Downloads: 219 This Week
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    Munt
    A multi-platform software synthesiser emulating (somewhat inaccurately) pre-GM MIDI devices such as the Roland MT-32, CM-32L, CM-64 and LAPC-I. In no way endorsed by or affiliated with Roland Corp. Source hosted at: http://www.github.com/munt/
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    Downloads: 225 This Week
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    Pure Data Computer Music System
    The Pure Data (short Pd) project on SourceForge unifies the extensions (or externals) written for the Pure Data Graphical Computer Music System written by Miller Puckette with contributions from many others.
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    Downloads: 130 This Week
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    FluidSynth

    FluidSynth

    A real-time SoundFont software synthesizer

    A real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications. It can be used for live audio synthesis of MIDI events or for rendering MIDI files to disk, using SoundFont instruments. It can also be embedded in other applications. This is not a application with a graphical user interface, however there are several GUI applications which utilize FluidSynth.
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    Downloads: 175 This Week
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    ZynAddSubFX
    ZynAddSubFX is a powerful realtime, multi-timbral software synthesizer for Linux, OSX, and Windows. It is microtonal, and the instruments made by it sounds like those from professional keyboards. The program has effects like Reverb, Echo, Chorus, Phaser...
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    Downloads: 140 This Week
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    Psycle Modular Music Creation Studio
    Psycle is a Music tracker (like FastTracker 2 or Impulse Tracker) combined with plugin modularity. It supports its own plugin API, the VST2 plugin standard, and a tracker style sampler playback.
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    Downloads: 39 This Week
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    Nyquist

    Nyquist

    Nyquist is a language for sound synthesis and music composition.

    Nyquist is a language for sound synthesis and music composition. It is implemented in C and C++ and runs on Win32, OSX, and Linux. Nyquist combines a powerful functional programming style with efficient signal-processing primitives. Nyquist is also embedded as a scripting language in Audacity.
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    Downloads: 50 This Week
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    SPTK is a suite of speech signal processing tools for UNIX environments, e.g., LPC analysis, PARCOR analysis, LSP analysis, PARCOR synthesis filter, LSP synthesis filter, vector quantization techniques, and other extended versions of them.
    Downloads: 32 This Week
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    A Sequenced Binaural Wave Generator for Linux+Windows. May be used to generate sounds that entrain the brain's waves to oscillate at selected frequencies to aid in relaxation, lucid dreaming, meditation, clear thought, out-of-body experiences + more
    Downloads: 22 This Week
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    Frinika

    Free open source DAW, MIDI sequencer, software synthesizers

    Frinika is a free, complete music workstation software for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX and other operating systems running Java. It features sequencer, soft-synths, realtime effects and audio recording.
    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    SuperCollider

    SuperCollider

    Real-time audio synthesis engine and music programming language

    N.B. SuperCollider is now hosted at GitHub, and the most recent versions can be downloaded from there. http://supercollider.github.io A real time audio synthesis engine, and an object-oriented programming language specialised for music. SuperCollider was created in 1996 by James McCartney, now (since version 3) released as free software.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    AlsaModularSynth
    AlsaModularSynth is a MIDI controlled realtime modular synthesizer and effect processor with support for LADSPA and JACK.
    Downloads: 13 This Week
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    Convert text to International Morse Code. Input is ASCII text. Output can be: - . -..- - on the console, raw 8bit PCM suitable for piping to /dev/audio, .wav files or even (mp3|ogg). Good for headlines on your MP3 player or code practice.
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    DSSI

    DSSI is an audio plugin API for soft synths and effects.

    DSSI is an audio plugin API for software instruments (soft synths) and effects. It is based on the LADSPA plugin API, the ALSA sequencer event types, and OSC (Open Sound Control) communications with custom GUIs.
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    Downloads: 28 This Week
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    jVSTwRapper allows you to develop VST (2.4), Audio Unit (AU) and LADSPA compatible audio plugins and virtual instruments plus user interfaces (Swing) with the Java programming language on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. 5 demo plugins (+src) are included.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    A java front-end for LinuxSampler
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    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    As a library of classes for generating and manipulating music and sound, jMusic provides a solid framework for computer assisted composition in Java. jMusic has a music data structure based upon note/sound events and methods for modifying and structu
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    The Analysis & Resynthesis Sound Spectrograph analyses a sound file into a spectrogram and is able to synthesise this spectrogram, or any other user-created image, back into a sound.
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    Downloads: 17 This Week
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    CECILIA is an environment for music and signal-processing that uses Csound as its underlying audio processing engine. One can think of CECILIA as a completely programmable sound-processing tool, with real-time interactive processing on soundfiles or live
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    uFMOD

    uFMOD

    An XM player library written in assembly language.

    XM player library written in assembly language. It's perfect for size- and speed-critical applications, click free, highly reliable, easy to use, open source, multiplatform. It is able to play even damaged and non-standard XM tracks.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    CWStudio
    CWStudio is a portable almost library-independent and computationally efficient generator of CW signals for telegraphy training purposes. It can create a sound with maximum similarity to the real air, simulating many difficulties.
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    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    Snd

    Snd is a sound editor

    Snd is a sound editor.
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    Downloads: 4 This Week
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