List of audio programming languages

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

abc, a language for notating music using the ASCII character set
Alda, a general-purpose, beginner-friendly music programming language
Bipscript, a simple programming environment for creating music
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
Tidalcycles, a live-coding pattern language embedded in the Haskell language which uses SuperCollider.
Vvvv
Zel-The MIDI Language, freeware text-to-MIDI environment.

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