Talk:Comparison of audio synthesis environments

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of computers, computing, and information technology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ComputingWikipedia:WikiProject ComputingTemplate:WikiProject ComputingComputing
???	This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Software.

good article foundation

Hi, User:Mcld recently I put a cleanup tag on part of this article, the tag was primarily as a note to myself to come back and make a few minor cleanups if still needed. I hadn't bothered to check whether the article was new or undergoing significant development, which appears like it is. Comparison articles like this are an excellent resource. Hats off to you for the work put in on this and thanks for the good information. dr.ef.tymac 21:46, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Impromptu

Doesn't (Impromptu) deserve an entry here? It's a Mac only, Scheme-based, live programming environment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.197.126.228 (talk) 11:59, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done (mostly) :-) 62.197.126.228 (talk) 13:58, 3 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, what about jMax?

Kyma (& jMax, etc)

SymbolicSound Kyma is missing, too.

I don't think jMax is worth noting. Almost no one uses it, its abandoned. Its historical, at best.

I think that this article should focus on current and supported languages... otherwise you have to include all sorts of obscure things that nobody uses.

Reaktor lacks any facility for coding. While I am not sure if this is a requisite, if we are talking simply modular builders then Synthedit and Synthmaker and all those other things would need to be included.

So I would opt to have REAKTOR removed since its more of a synth builder than a programming environment (?)

re: jMax etc.

As of 2009 jMax development is on again, but there has been no public release. The inclusion of Common Music in the last table is a mistake: CM is not an audio synthesis environment, it is a Lisp-based music composition environment with no audio synthesis capabilities. The latest versions do include a library of instruments designed with Bill Schottstaedt's Common Lisp Music (CLM), which should have been included on this page. Ditto for Cmix/Rtcmix. To be honest, the rubric "audio synthesis environment" covers a very broad swath of definition: Is a VSTi plugin an audio synthesis environment ? What exactly differentiates an environment from an application ? If the programming aspect is definitive, how is "programming audio synthesis" defined ? Again, is a VSTi plugin not an audio synthesis environment, and are we not programming it while twiddling virtual knobs and sliders ?

Btw, speaking of "historical" systems, how many people are still using the Kyma system ? 98.30.49.10 (talk) 14:02, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

CLAM

CLAM should probably be added? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.217.73.114 (talk) 11:42, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

PWGL

Mikael Laurson's PWGL is a lisp-based computer-assisted composition environment that also includes an impressive real-time synthesis engine and MIDI input - it should probably be added to the list.