Technical
| Name | Operating system(s) | Source code language(s) | Programming (plugin) API language(s) | Other technical features |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audulus | iOS, Mac OS X | C++, Objective-C, Lua | ||
| ChucK | Mac OS X, Linux, Windows | C++ | Unified timing mechanism (no separation between audio-rate and control-rate), command-line access | |
| Common Music | Mac OS X, Linux, Windows | Scheme, C++ | Scheme, SAL | command-line access |
| Csound | Mac OS X, Linux, Windows | C, C++ | C; also Python, Java, Lisp, Lua, Tcl, C++ | IDE (QuteCsound), multitrack interface (blue); several analysis/resynthesis facilities; can compute double-precision audio; Python algorithmic composition library |
| Impromptu | Mac OS X | Lisp, Objective-C, Scheme | C, C++, Objective-C, Scheme | Native access to most OS X APIs including Core Image, Quartz, QuickTime and OpenGL. Impromptu also includes its own statically typed (inferencing) systems language for heavy numeric processing - OpenGL, RT AudioDSP etc.. |
| Max/MSP | Mac OS X, Windows | C, Objective-C | C, Java, JavaScript, also Python and Ruby via externals | |
| nsound | Mac OS X, Linux, Windows | C++ | C++, Python | Real-Time Dynamic Digital Filters |
| Pure Data | Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, iPod, Android | C | C, C++, FAUST, Haskell, Java, Lua, Python, Q, Ruby, Scheme, others | |
| Reaktor | Mac OS X, Windows | |||
| SuperCollider | Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, FreeBSD | C, C++, Objective-C | C++ | Client-server architecture; client and server can be used independently, command-line access |
| sfront | Linux, Windows(via cygwin) | C++ | Conforming MPEG-4/SA implementation. | |
| Usine | Windows | Delphi | C++ |
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