Audio programming language

An audio programming language is a programming language specifically optimized for sound and music production or sound synthesis. Some of the languages below are optimized more for music composition, and some are optimized more for synthesis. For details, see the comparison of audio synthesis environments.

abc, a language for notating music using the ASCII character set
Advanced Music Production Language and Environment (AMPLE), a Forth-like music programming language with concurrency
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
FAUST (Functional Audio Stream ), a functional compiled language for efficient real-time audio signal processing
Haskore
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
jMax, Java-based MAX clone
jMusic
JSyn
Liquidsoap [1]
Loco - designed to be for sound what Logo is for graphics [2]
Max/MSP
Melodyne
Music Macro Language (MML)
MUSIC-N, includes versions I, II, III, IV, IV-B, IV-BF, V, 11, and 360
Nsound [3], C++ API for sound synthesis
Nyquist
OpenMusic
PatchWork
Pure Data
PWGL
Q-Audio [4]
Ring Tone Transfer Language
Soundscrape [5]
Strasheela [6]
Structured Audio Orchestra Language (SAOL), part of the MPEG-4 Structured Audio standard
SuperCollider
SynthEdit [7]
Usine [8]

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