Open Source Sound Synthesis Software

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."

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/

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.

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.

This kangaroo-themed program allows the user to create their own music and sound effects, effectively from scratch. There are two variants of the program: Kangas Sound Editor which requires MySQL for its database, and Kangas Sound Editor QI which does not (it uses an internal database - HSQLDB - instead). Kangas Sound Editor (QI) uses a system of boxes or cells, which are placed by the user onto a timeline using drag-and-drop, and which represent entities such as chords, repetition, and individual sounds or notes. The program's database allows the user to create and store harmonics, used for constructing melodic instruments, and anti-harmonics, which are used for constructing percussion instruments. Users can collaborate with and build on the work of others via an XML import/export facility.

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.

A java front-end for LinuxSampler

A unique desktop music composing application for PC/Mac/Linux/Android with a tracker style interface and a simple modular Java plugin based design allowing rapid improvement and endless expansion.

RasmusDSP is an embeddable Audio/MIDI processor. It contains various filters and generators (including SoundFont 2.0 compatible synthesizer). Has a script interpreter which is used to describe instruments, route Audio/MIDI signal between processor units.

Loris is a library for sound analysis, synthesis, and morphing, developed by Kelly Fitz and Lippold Haken at the CERL Sound Group. Loris includes a C++ class library, Python module, C-linkable interface, command line utilities, and documentation.

'Text to Voice' or 'Text to Speech' is 1 of the coolest Firefox add-ons. It gives ur brwsr the pwr of speech. Select txt, clck the bttn on the bttm rite & this add-on spks the selectd txt 4 u. Isn't it brllant? Moreovr odio file cn b dnloaded as

The Tibetan and Himalayan Library has several open-sourced tools for inputting, manipulating, translating, and transcribing Tibetan-language text, audio, and video. We aim to make using a computer easier for Himalayan peoples and scholars.

Cabel is a graphical user interface for building Csound instruments by patching modules similar to modular synthesizers. Cabel modules are defined in XML files, so anybody with some Csound knowledge can write his/her own modules and play with them.

SampleMaker is a module sample maker mainly to produce sound samples that can be used in musical instruments.

Schnolgo is a multi-format musical composition package written in Python. It is built with an extremely flexible system for representing rhythmic structures and is intended to allow for songs to be written so as to make use of "guided improvisation".

A program that generates music (WAV-like files) from a specification of tones in absolute frequencies, rather than the normal well-defined tones. The specification list all notes, their length, frequency and amplitude and the program generate a mix of all

Allegory is a tool for electronic music. It consists of a small library of Haskell definitions that can be used to create, explore, and refine developmental/variation relationships between diverse sound materials. Csound required as realisation engine.

A suite of applications to manipulate (ambman) and convert (wav2amb, amb2caf) ambisonic audiofiles and informational utilities (ambcalc, ambchan, ambinfo). Manipulations include soundfield rotation, zooming and meta-data reading and creation.

The Analysis & Reconstruction Sound Engine analyses a sound file into a spectrogram and is able to synthesise this spectrogram, or any other user-created image, back into a sound.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) evolves musical instruments you play with the mouse from small blocks of Java code that operate on numbers, each block designed to keep all numbers in range -1 to 1 if they started in that range, and combinations of these evolved codes running 44100 times per second for high quality 44.1 khz audio. You can also write the Java code into its window. Uses Javassist internal compiler on the new Java code assembled by renaming variables to overlap eachother and reordering, copying, and removing blocks of code. Listen to the recorded music in files section of sourceforge or try it for yourself. This branched into my other projects: GigaLineCompile, JSelfModify, JSoundCard, and Human AI Net as I got more into the AI and systems side of things and explored vision research as a better user interface to network minds together through the Internet. Someday I will bring it all together in a shared space on the Internet.

BeatBox is a Java application in which users use a 16x16 grid of checkboxes to create a beat with various percussion instruments. Beats can be saved and loaded easily. The entire application is as intuitive and user-friendly as possible.

Java based system for creating Bio-Musical Worlds. Investigating the use of AI (flocking,A-Life, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks) and other bio-modelling techniques for the creation and evolution of musical landscapes.

"CAGE", the Computer Audio Garden in Eclipse, is to be an Eclipse-based, Java and XML workbench, for the computer music composer. It will use the Rich Client Platform to provide a basic backbone framework, enabling existing computer music tools to be p

Self-modifying Jar file Programming-Lang for Artificial-Intelligence & Audio & Natural-Lang monkeys with code like a simian. Windows mutate self Code: if(ask("MP3?")sound(mp3("C:\\music\\a.mp3"*(3.4 count)))) plays a.mp3 3.4x speed if click yes

CodeSounding is a sonification framework which makes possible to hear how any existing Java program "sounds like", by assigning instruments and pitches to code statements (if, for, etc) so that the flowing of execution is played as a flow of music.