Open Sound World
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Open Sound World, or OSW, is a development and run-time environment that allows sound designers and musicians to process sound in response to expressive real-time control. OSW employs a visual programming environment in which users instantiate and connect graphical components, called transforms to form programs, called patches. This model of “patching things together†has a long and storied history in computer music from early analog synths to modern programming environments such as Max/MSP, jMax and Pd.
Users of these environments will probably find the OSW interface quite familiar, although there are several important differences. OSW uses a more uniform model where everything is a transform (i.e., no messages or constants floating around), connections between transforms are strongly typed, and only one connection may enter or leave a particular outlet.
OSW is also highly dynamic and allows users to both edit transforms and manipulate performance controls simultaneously, and change patches or the basic configuration even while the audio is running.
Released for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
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http://osw.sourceforge.net/ (548 clicks)
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