List of audio programming languages

This is a list of audio programming languages including languages optimized for sound production, algorithmic composition, and sound synthesis.

• ChucK, strongly timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly audio programming language
• Cmix, Real-time Cmix, a MUSIC-N synthesis language somewhat similar to Csound
• CMusic
• Common Lisp Music (CLM), a music synthesis and signal processing package in the Music V family
• Csound, a MUSIC-N synthesis language released under the LGPL with many available unit generators
• Extempore, a live-coding environment which borrows a core foundation from the Impromptu environment
• FAUST, Functional Audio Stream, a functional compiled language for efficient real-time audio signal processing
• Hierarchical Music Specification Language (HMSL), optimized more for music than synthesis, developed in the 1980s in Forth
• Impromptu, a Scheme language environment for Mac OS X capable of sound and video synthesis, algorithmic composition, and 2D and 3D graphics programming
• jMusic
• JSyn
• Kyma (sound design language)
• Max/MSP The "lingua franca" for developing interactive music performance software
• Music Macro Language (MML), often used to produce chiptune music in Japan
• MUSIC-N, includes versions I, II, III, IV, IV-B, IV-BF, V, 11, and 360
• Nyquist
• OpenMusic
• Overtone Open Source Clojure based audio environment using SuperCollider.
• Patchblocks
• Pure Data
• Reaktor
• Sonic Pi
• Sporth, a stack-based audio language.
• Structured Audio Orchestra Language (SAOL), part of the MPEG-4 Structured Audio standard
• SuperCollider
• SynthEdit
• Vvvv

See also

• Comparison of audio synthesis environments
• List of music software