Open Source Mac Sound Synthesis Software

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/

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.

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.

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.

RetroCode(tm) is a universal mobile content converter. RetroCode(tm) is able to read and write most common sample based ringtone formats including meta-data. Formats: SMAF (MA2,MA3,MA5,MA7), RMF, MFM, CMX, QCP, AMR (NB,WB), AAC, MP3, OGG, SWF, RA, WAV

jMax is a visual programming environment for building interactive real-time musical and multimedia applications.

Application which detects musical notes from the microphone. It allows listening to the microphone and play the detected notes to output (in midi). Multilanguage support. Zoom Dark mode option JDK-17 compatibility With v1.2 it includes a pitch shifter (making voice lower or sharper through a slider) There is a demo video which shows how it works (the demo video can be visited from Help menu of the application) You can also see the pitch-shifter demo version here: https://frojasg1.com:8443/resource_counter/resourceCounter?operation=countAndForward&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffrojasg1.com%2Fdemos%2Faplicaciones%2FInstrumentalMusic%2Fpitch.shifter.mp4%3Forigin%3Dsourceforge&origin=web

The AM1 Synthesizer is a real-time, Midi-controlled, music synthesizer for the Macintosh platform. The AM1 uses up to 6 square or sine wave oscillators per voice and amplitude modulation to synthesize sound.

Csound is a sound and music synthesis system, providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms. It is not restricted to any style of music, having been used for many years in at least classical, pop, techno, ambient. Csound is now hosted at https://github.com/csound Binary and source-code releases: http://csound.github.io/download.html Mailing lists are hosted by HEAnet at https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CSOUND and https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CSOUND-DEV Archives: mail lists at http://dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/Csound-archive releases: http://dream.cs.bath.ac.uk/Csound-archive/OldReleases/

Compresses music from 1/50th to 1/100th its original size by removing dissonant parts of sound and also optimizes it for lower speaker-stress, dynamic equalization (2-3 times less hearing stress at high volume), non-compression modes and much more.

Cross-platform audio engine that implements features necessary for basic audio processing such as file loading/saving, audio mixing, sample/bit rate conversion, audio mixing/chaining, effects processing and some simple DSP operations. Still under develo

ISS: a toolset for visual artists, composers and researchers in the area of: artificial life, sound synthesis, interactive art installations, immersive user interaction, sound spacialization. More information can be found on http://swarms.cc

maestream is a serie of abstractions, to make more easily the use of PureData for multimedia purposes. maestream is recommended for Pd-extended users

A XFig based rapid prototype yeilding a melody line generation tool which lets you plot the pitch, volume and generic waveform sound. You can hear a piece of music, grab and plot the synth then create your own melody lines with the same synth. sound ....

MunichCodeBrewery is a project for developing sound plugins via the jVstWrapper interface, which is also hosted on SourceForge. It combines the ease and elegance of Java programming with the power of VST.

musicomp is a program which most important element is an evolutionary algorithm which uses data mining methods as a fitness function to generate monophone melodies.

A suite of professional real-time audio editing tools

A C++ library and Python module for audio synthesis featuring dynamic digital filters. Nsound lets you easily shape waveforms and write to disk or plot them. Nsound aims to be as powerful as Csound but easy to use.

Octavia is a music description language that reads a text file and converts to midi. It also provides the full power of python interpreter.

A modular audio programming language, designed to write applications quickly. Its main goal is real time audio processing, but it should be used for any kind of development.

The project is about porting selected (open source) music-, and audio software to latest compilers and platforms...

A sound synthesis system, the main aim of which is to try and stimulate the user's creativity.

SynthLab is a sound synthesis witch provide several modules you can plug to each over via a graphical interface such as a VCO, a VCF, a VCA, an envelop, ... You can use a direct sound output or save to a file

Tao is a software package for sound synthesis using physical models. It provides a virtual acoustic material constructed from masses and springs which can be used as the basis for building quite complex virtual musical instruments.

The Python Sound Project aims to develop a productive community around Python, Csound and other synthesis engines as tools for algorithmic composition of electroacoustic music.