JSyn Java programming language Java Sound synthesis Synthesis is a gratis free API for developing interactive sound applications in Java. Developed by Phil Burk and others, it is distributed through Burk s company, SoftSynth. JSyn has a flexible, unit generator based synthesis and Digital signal processing DSP architecture that allows developers to create synthesizers, audio playback routines, and effects processing algorithms within a Java framework that allows for easy integration with other Java routines e.g. graphics, user interface , etc. . A Plug in computing plugin is available for web browser s to run JSyn enabled applet s distributed over the world wide web . Although fundamentally a synthesis language imitative of if not directly inspired by Csound and other MUSIC N languages , JSyn has a number of powerful extensions and ancillary libraries, including JMSL a Java update to the HMSL music specification language and JScore a staff notation editor and library , which adds a significantly higher level of musical Music informatics informatics to the package than would normally be supplied with a set of synthesis routines. Wire , a graphical editor for JSyn routines, also allows developers to create DSP chains using a simple GUI that gives the API some of the ease of use of programs such as Max MSP . A commercial though inexpensive Software developer developer license allows JSyn to be incorporated into commercial applications. External links http www.softsynth.com jsynJSyn Home Page http www.algomusic.com JMSL Home Page DEFAULTSORT Jsyn Category Audio programming languages Category Audio libraries Category Java platform ... more details
Unreferenced date July 2009 The Hierarchical Music Specification Language HMSL is a music programming language written in the 1980s by Larry Polansky , Phil Burk , and David Rosenboom at Mills College . Written on top of Forth programming language Forth , it allowed for the creation of real time interactive music performance systems, algorithmic composition software, and any other kind of program that requires a high degree of musical Music informatics informatics . It was distributed by Frog Peak Music, and runs with a very light memory footprint 1 megabyte on Apple Macintosh Macintosh and Amiga systems. Unlike CSound and other languages for audio sound synthesis synthesis , HMSL is primarily a language for making music . As such, it interfaces with sound making devices through built in MIDI classes. However, it has a high degree of built in understanding of music performance performance practice , musical tuning tuning systems , and Sheet music score reading. Its main interface for the manipulate of musical parameter s is through the metaphor of shape s, which can be created, altered, and combined to create a musical Texture music texture , either by themselves or in response to real time or Scheduling computing scheduled events in a score. HMSL has been widely used by composers working in algorithmic composition for over twenty years. In addition to the authors who are also composers , HMSL has been used in pieces by Nick Didkovsky , The Hub band The Hub , James Tenney , Tom Erbe , and Pauline Oliveros . A Java platform Java port of HMSL was developed by Nick Didkovsky under the name JMSL , and is designed to interface to the JSyn API. External links http www.softsynth.com hmsl HMSL Page at SoftSynth http www.algomusic.com JMSL Home Page http www.doctornerve.org nerve pages hmslear.shtml An Article on HSML by Nick Didkovsky http www.mills.edu LIFE CCM ftp hmsl code portable Archive site of example HMSL code http web.archive.org web 20050206211046 http www.mills.e ... more details
Nick Didkovsky b. 1958 is a composer , guitarist , computer music programmer, and leader of the band Doctor Nerve . He is a former student of Christian Wolff composer Christian Wolff , Pauline Oliveros and Gerald Shapiro . Didkovsky has developed a Java platform Java music API called JMSL Java Music Specification Language . JMSL is a toolbox for algorithmic composition and performance. JMSL includes JScore, an extensible staff notation editor. JMSL can output music using either JavaSound or JSyn . Didkovsky has composed for or performed on a number of CDs including 1997 Every Screaming Ear , Label Cuneiform January 21 1997 Ayaya Moses , with the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet Binky Boy 1999, Upbeat , with the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet 2000, Ereia , with Doctor Nerve and the Sirius String Quartet 2003, Bone uses wrist grab , with Hugh Hopper and John Roulat Didkovsky s music has also been arranged by the experimental music group Electric Kompany . References Dickenson, J. Andrew http urbanguitar.com main stage articles electric counterpoint Electric Counterpoint , Urban Guitar , July 2006 Ross Feller, Ice Cream Time The Raunchy and the Rigorous http www.dramonline.org albums ice cream time notes External links http www.doctornerve.org Doctor Nerve Home Page http www.algomusic.com JMSL Home Page http www.wnyc.org shows newsounds episodes 2007 03 20 Interview with New Sounds Allmusic class album id r638429 label Uses Wrist Grab Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Didkovsky, Nick ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1958 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Didkovsky, Nick Category 21st century classical composers Category Living people Category 1958 births US composer 20thC stub US guitarist stub nl Nick Didkovsky ... more details
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 sound synthesis synthesis . For details, see the comparison of audio synthesis environments . abc notation 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 GNU Lesser General Public License LGPL with many available unit generator s Functional Audio Stream FAUST programming language FAUST , compiled language for real time audio signal processing Haskore Hierarchical Music Specification Language HMSL , optimized more for music than synthesis, developed in the 1980s in Forth programming language Forth Impromptu programming environment Impromptu , a Scheme programming language Scheme language environment for Mac OS X capable of sound and video synthesis, algorithmic composition, and 2D and 3D graphics programming jMax , Java programming language Java based MAX clone jMusic JSyn Liquidsoap http savonet.sourceforge.net Loco Audio Programming Language Loco designed to be for sound what Logo programming language Logo is for graphics Max MSP Melodyne Music Macro Language MML MUSIC N , includes versions I, II, III, IV, IV B, IV BF, V, 11, and 360 Nsound http nsound.sourceforge.net , C API for sound synthesis Nyquist programming language Nyquist OpenMusic PatchWork Pure Data PWGL Q Audio http q lang.sourceforge.net Ring Tone Transfer Language Soundscrape http ambient.2y.net soundscrape Strasheela http strashe ... more details
MUSIC N refers to a family of computer music programs and programming languages descended from or influenced by MUSIC, a program written by Max Mathews in 1957 at Bell Labs . ref Peter Manning, Computer and Electronic Music. Oxford Univ. Press, 1993. ref MUSIC was the first computer program for generating digital audio waveforms through direct synthesis. It was one of the first programs for making music in actuality, sound on a digital computer , and was certainly the first program to gain wide acceptance in the music research community as viable for that task. The world s first computer controlled music was generated in Australia by programmer Geoff Hill on the CSIRAC computer which was designed and built by Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard. ref http www.csse.unimelb.edu.au dept about csirac music The music of CSIRAC ref However, CSIRAC did not produce digital audio Huh date January 2011 , like the MUSIC series of programs. MUSIC had a number of descendants, e.g. MUSIC II, MUSIC III, MUSIC IV all developed at Bell Labs MUSIC IV B developed at Princeton University to run on an IBM mainframe Music4 MUSIC IV BF re written in FORTRAN , therefore porting portable MUSIC V the last of the Bell Labs line MUSIC V was considerably augmented at IRCAM in Paris by John Gardner and Jean Louis Richer to enable it to process digitized sounds as well as to synthesize sounds MUSIC 360 and MUSIC 11 written by Barry Vercoe at MIT , descended from MUSIC IV BF Csound descended from MUSIC 11 and in wide use today CMix Real time Cmix by Paul Lansky , Brad Garton , and others CMusic by F. Richard Moore Structured Audio Orchestra Language SAOL , which is part of the MPEG 4 audio standard, by Eric Scheirer mergefrom Music4 discuss Talk MUSIC N Merge from Music4 date November 2010 Less obviously, MUSIC can be seen as the parent program for Max software Max MSP Pure Data AudioMulch SuperCollider JSyn Common Lisp Music ChucK Any other computer computer music programming languages synthesis langu ... more details
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