Open Source Objective C Sound Synthesis Software

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.

The MusicKit & SndKit is an object-oriented software system for building music, sound, signal processing & MIDI applications. The distribution is a comprehensive package that includes on-line documentation, code examples, utilities, applications & scores

The AUGUI framework is a set of classes to be used to ease development of custom Carbon edit views for Mac OS X Audio Units. The classes are based on the HIFramework and on the AudioUnit SDK provided by Apple. Support for Cocoa UI is being added.

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.

This is a small Mac OS X app, that gives you the possibility to convert typed text to an .aiff robot voice.

StickMusic is a program to control digital sound synthesis and processing using joysticks. It has a GUI to set up patches.

Composing/Performance tool that uses your gestures via a wii remote to mix a song or soundfile using granular synthesis in real time.

foo is a sound synthesis framework which provides high-level abstracted ways of creating and manipulating sounds via a scheme language interface. foo is designed for highest audio quality rather than highest performance.