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An infinite realtime composition that creates an astounding sonic cosmos by manipulating instrumental sound particles in time and space. It takes advantage of composition algorithms that have been developed by Karlheinz Essl since 1985. The generation process can be conducted by an automatism or by user interaction.
What’s New in this Version
- completely rewritten and extended
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live-improvisation software environment
The ixiQuarks tools are divided into the following categories: basic utilities, instruments, effects and filters. These tools all manipulate audio on audio channels and the idea is that the user routes audio from one tool to another, like connecting guitar effect pedals together. There are 52 Audio Channels by default, but that can [...]

Provides accompaniment to the improvising musician. Never tires, never gets bored. Never plays off key. Comes with a bunch of scales and easy to add more.
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http://mars.pingdynasty.com/software.oml (1583 clicks)

The AC Toolbox is a Macintosh application to assist the algorithmic composition of music.
Several models for defining musical events are included. They can be used by defining objects such as sections, shapes, masks, or note structures. It is also possible to play, plot, modify, and examine objects in a number of ways. Extensive [...]

RandomMIDI produces “random” sequences of pitches from notes played on an on-screen piano keyboard image. Randomly assigned note duration values range from whole- to sixteenth-notes.
The sequences are saved as “type 1″ MIDI files using the default piano sound (GM voice 1) at 120 BPM (beats per minute). The voice and tempo can, of course, be [...]

The Conductor Program — computer-mediated musical performance
Remember how you could record a melody in your casio and how you could play it back only with 2 fingers and with a different timing ? well, this is the basic idea of Tapper.
Give it a midi file to use as a score, select the MIDI input and [...]

Open Source Package for Composition & Performance .
Jade is a flexible, relatively easy-to-use, environment for composition and performance. For many Jade has made approaching the complexities of interactive music possible. Now it is available for free as an open-source project.
The basic unit in Jade is a Module. Jade has a number of ready-made modules for [...]

Strasheela is a highly expressive constraint-based music composition system.
The Strasheela user declaratively states a music theory and the computer generates music which complies with this theory. A theory is formulated as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) by a set of rules (constraints) applied to a music representation in which some aspects are expressed by variables [...]

IanniX is a graphical editor of multidimensional and multi-formal scores, a kind of poly-temporal meta-sequencer, based on the former UPIC created by Iannis Xenakis.
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/iannix/ (1018 clicks)

Meloncillo is a standalone Java program for composition of spatial sound. A GUI allows the placement of interacting objects and editing of trajectories which can generate data evaluated by a sound synthesis application such as SuperCollider or CSound.
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/meloncillo/ (534 clicks)

An Application for the Creation of Geophonic Music
Have you ever wondered what climate cycles of the last million years SOUND like? What would happen if you turned tide level data into sound waves? If geological cycles could make music – what would the melody be? The harmony?
Maestro Frankenstein is a unique application that is designed [...]

Multitemporal note generator
ValEVarion Evolved is another offering from Unbearable Devices in the Multitemporal Audio Tools series.
ValEVarion is MIDI based and before you start complaining, think. Think that all
your software based samplers and softsynths can be controlled by MIDI. So even
if you don’t have an exquisite sounding hardware MIDI sound generator, all you existing software [...]

This is an experimental program for extreme stretching the audio. insanely extreme..
Requirements:
– audiofile library
– libvorbis
– fltk library
– portaudio library
– not required, but you can use the FFTW library
This algorithm/program is suitable only for extreme [...]

TAPESTREA : Techniques And Paradigms for Expressive Synthesis, Transformation, and Rendering of Environmental Audio
what is it? : TAPESTREA (or taps) is a unified framework for analyzing,
transforming and synthesizing complex environmental sounds. Given one or more recordings, it provides well-defined means to: (1) identify points of interest in the sound and extract them into reusable [...]

For those who have any interest in Binaural Beats , I have made a Cocoa+CoreAudio application : MacBinauBeats.
This is a 2 sinewaves and pinknoise oscillator controlled by GUI sliders. MacBinauBeats generates beats on your demand.
Note that you shuold use a stereo earphone or headphone. MacBinauBeats works on MacOSX10.2 or later.
http://www.ictnet.ne.jp/~oohata/english.html (415 clicks)

this app will provide the pop and jazz improvisor with that ‘play along’ practice that is so ubiquituos; it differs from other software-based playalongs in that the user clicks on a staff to place the roots of choice. The random create part puts the app in the algorithmic composition categorie as well.
http://homepage.mac.com/ronmiller2/RonsSite/playalong.html (371 clicks)

Micromontage technique allows the composer to work a musical figure point by point, shaping each sound particle with microscopic precision. The software presented in this paper combines graphic and script editing with algorithmic generation and manipulation of sound sequences. It provides several tools to enhance both creation and organic development of the musical material under [...]

MRP Sequencer is a software step sequencer conceptually very similar to vintage analogue step sequencers such as the ARP 1601/1603 and Korg SQ10, and recent digitally controlled step sequencers such as the Frostwave Fatcontroller and Colin Fraser’s P3.
MRP Sequencer goes a little beyond the feature set of most step sequencers.
sequences of up to 64 steps
track [...]

COOPER is a patch written in Max/MSP. The idea of COOPER is to have a flexible environment which can be controlled from a meta-parameter-level, all the audio processing is split into modules (generators and modulators), which are connected to each other through a matrix.
Every input you give to a module (with input devices like [...]

MaxScore was originally designed to demonstrate algorithmic thinking in computer music. It is loosely based upon Barry Truax’s POD systems of the 1980s.
MaxScore follows the POD design of events contained within notelists (scores). This convention is also used by many other computer music programs, including Csound and MIDI sequencers. This version of MaxScore is limited [...]

mlooch is my first attempt to write a complete Macintosh app using the snazzy music DSP/synthesis language Max/MSP from Cycling74. I probably got a little bit carried away fooling with some of the interface stuff (menus especially), but I do get a kick out of the resulting sounds. If you enjoy droning, ambient sounds that [...]

Eine Kleine (Gamelan) Computer Music
An implementation of Daniel Goode’s “Eine Kleine Gamelan Music” as a MaxMSP standalone application for OS X.
http://theendmusic.org/programming/EK (1022 clicks)

Sev (Patcher/OSX collective)
http://www.audiooo.com/jp/freestuff/index.html (3042 clicks)

Autumn (Patcher/OSX collective)
http://www.audiooo.com/jp/freestuff/index.html (3042 clicks)

Matrix Sequencer Max/MSP Standalone.
http://www.audiooo.com/jp/freestuff/index.html (3042 clicks)

Amber aims to be a flexible tool for granular synthesis. This synthesis technique is becoming more and more popular in the computer music world, and we felt that the current tools availible to do granular synthesis were not as flexible as one might hope.
The software is released under the GNU public license, with portions of [...]

KinTool is a tool that allows the sound to move in a MULTIPHONIC SOUND SPACE.
Is is basically a sequencer where “spatial events” are written. These spatial events trigger a sound mixer that will make us perceive the movement of sound in space.
-12 channels
-Sequencer to write spatial events. All the parameters of the spatial events can [...]

free compositional software tool developed by Steve Ricks and Morgan Quigley.
UMM assists the contemporary composer by taking care of the tedious computation required when working in some genres. For example, when composing a passage that needs semi-random phrases intermixed with a complicated hierarchy of nested phrases, it is quite tedious to work it out by [...]

What is the Square One? Our best answer is that it is a new type of song. It is not a piece of music software for creating new works. It is an interface that will allow you to interact with our song, Dreamtime Dub. Think of it as a song that doesn’t come to [...]

Live performance software with effects, stretching, synthetiser, granuling, stuttering etc.
http://mils.mils.free.fr/pagesoft.html (2612 clicks)

SeqCon is a software designed for live performances (theater, dance, circus, mime…). SeqCon is a sequencer not linked to time : the sequence steps are linked to conditions defined by the performance.
http://hapax84.free.fr/telecharg.html (690 clicks)

sample player / sequencer
Scramble is a programm made with Max/MSP. It is run by using samples and tweaking out how the speed of the sample is played to make almost an entirely new sound. This software is to be used with care as some of the tweaking of samples can distort the sound even possibly [...]

MAX / MSP standalone to study the musical temperaments.
Designed for music teachers and students of Musicology.
http://users.skynet.be/almusie/logiciel.html (310 clicks)

In SONASPHERE, functional units, such as sound samples, effects and mixers, are represented as small spherical ‘Objects’ floating within 3D Space. Connections are made between these objects, using simple mouse interaction, to establish signal stream networks.
A Sample Object playing a sound sample file, is connected to an Effect Object, which is then connected to a [...]

Scala is a powerful software tool for experimentation with musical tunings, such as just intonation scales, equal and historical temperaments, microtonal and macrotonal scales, and non-Western scales.
It supports scale creation, editing, comparison, analysis, storage, tuning of electronic instruments, and MIDI file generation and tuning conversion. All this is integrated into a single application with [...]

Matriosity is a serial matrix generator and chord analyser. It can be used in the creation of serial music as a compositional aide
Matriosity is a serial matrix creation tool. It allows users to enter in a prime row, either as numbers (1-11, and either 0 or 12 for C) or letters (C, C#, etc.). It [...]

Impromptu is an OSX programming environment for composers, sound artists, VJ’s and graphic artists with an interest in live or interactive programming. Impromptu is a Scheme language environment, a member of the Lisp family of languages.
Time plays a major role in the Impromptu environment allowing accurate real-time scheduling of events and code blocks. Impromptu is [...]

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Cecilia is a program to make sound. Sound in its widest definition. Sound as music, sound as composition, sound as accessory.
Cecilia is a general sound-processing environment
Cecilia is a graphical interface
Cecilia is a text editor
Cecilia is a music programming language
Cecilia serves the composer with little programming experience and the programmer with little composing experience. [...]

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ChucK is a new audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on MacOS X, Windows, and Linux. ChucK presents a new time-based concurrent programming model, which supports a more precise and fundamental level of expressiveness, as well as multiple, simultaneous, dynamic control rates, a precise and straightforward concurrent programming [...]

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Pd (aka Pure Data) is a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing. It is the third major branch of the family of patcher programming languages known as Max (Max/FTS, ISPW Max, Max/MSP, jMax, etc.) originally developed by Miller Puckette and company at IRCAM. The core of Pd is written [...]

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Stochos is a realtime stochastic event generator system for computer music and sound design. It’s core is based on the Achorripsis model of Iannis Xenakis. Combined with the modern synthesis tools, the software gives a rich timbre space being shaped in continuum.

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AntiLoop is an OS X Application that generates percussive audio and midi based on a set of probabilities given by the user.
Features
Feel grid lets the user rush or drag notes.
New hard interface lets the user have visual access to tons of data on tons of tracks at one time
Mute, Solo, PanMIDI Output
MIDI selectable [...]

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Autocrap is a sampling machine that is listening to the sound in of your computer. It records it into some buffers that are played creating various layers of sounds. The pitch and panning of the sound depends on the movement of a random object that keeps wandering around on screen and you can [...]

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The Tree is a system where sounds can be placed on different nodes in a 1 to 16 branching tree structure. Thus, there are 31 sounds that can play subjected to varying degree of control and randomness. The system is built up such that it can easily be modified for different uses.

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The user just puts some soundfiles into the “snds” folder of the application and the software will import the files and start to create music according to some popular glitch/microsound algorithms. The result can be stunning. Mindblowing actually.
Well, this is a simple application. Place your soundfiles in the “snds” folder and click on [...]

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Viruses is an application that allows you to set strange rules for triggering of sounds. The program is a representation of a microworld where viruses move between cells. Each virus has properties that you set. When a virus lands on a cell, it triggers the sound that you’ve attached to that virus. Other [...]

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The spindrum is a rhythm machine that can be used in such a general way that it is has nothing to do with rhythm anymore. It tries to explore non-conventional ways to sequence rhythms as well as to produce an interface that visually explains the underlying process.
Basically, you’ve got sets of 10 different [...]

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micWorld is an application in which 3D environments are used to organize sounds and their attributes. There are 8 sound objects in the world which can be moved around by keyboard commands, joystick or by the mouse. These sound objects are silent until the microphone, also controlled by the user, comes near to [...]

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Lauki is an instrument whose visual qualities define the musical outcome. It consists of a grid of many hundred identical small boxes which trigger a looping sound when clicked on. By importing custom sounds, you are able to use Lauki as a palette where sounds are set into looping patterns in different frequencies [...]

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This programs allows to pile up several layers o sounds adding all the frequencies and constructing a new sound. You can easily change the amouth of each sound that goes into the final mix.