This repository is made for the purpose of collecting inspirations, libraries and references about interactive music and computer music composition. Feel free to PR if you come across interesting tools, libraries or projects that are not here.
Frameworks, libraries and tools:
Web Audio
Tone.js A framework for creating interactive music in the browser
Howler.js Makes working with audio in JavaScript easy and reliable across all platforms
Pizzicato.js Pizzicato aims to simplify the way you create and manipulate sounds via the Web Audio API
Gibberish Fast, JavaScript DSP library
lissajous A tool for programmatic audio performance in the browser using Javascript
WAAX Offers a comprehensive framework for web-based music application
Omnitone Spatial Audio Rendering on the web
Tuna An audio effects library for the Web Audio API
SoundJS A Javascript library to make working with audio a breeze
Audio Engines
Csound Csound is a sound and music computing system
SuperCollider SuperCollider is a platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition
ChucK Strongly-timed, Concurrent, and On-the-fly Music Programming Language
Native
RTcmix A real-time software "language" for doing digital sound synthesis and signal-processing
AudioKit AudioKit is an audio synthesis, processing, and analysis platform for iOS, macOS, and tvOS
CoreAutio Core Audio provides software interfaces for implementing audio features in applications you create for iOS and OS X
Maximilian A cross platform audio synthesis and signal processing library written in C++ / ofxMaxim for openFrameworks
jMusic Designed to provide composers and software developers with a library of compositional and audio processing tools
Faust A functional programming language specifically designed for real-time signal processing and synthesis
CLAM C++ Library for Audio and Music
STK A set of open source audio signal processing and algorithmic synthesis classes written in the C++
Graphical Interfaces
PureData Pure Data is an open source visual programming language for multimedia
Cecilia Cecilia is an audio signal processing environment aimed at sound designers
Soundgrain Soundgrain is a graphical interface where users can draw and edit trajectories to control granular sound synthesis
Game Engines
Heavy Unity3D A dead simple way of making your audio content more interactive
libPD for Unity3D libpd (pure data) with unity 4.x
Csound Unity3D CsoundUnity is a fully integrated audio middleware for the Unity(3D) game engine based in C#.
Hardware based
Zynthian An Open Platform for Sound Synthesis based on Raspberry Pi
Owl Open source, programmable audio platform made for musicians, hackers and programmers alike
Analysis and Music Information Retrieval
LibROSA Python library for audio and music analysis
Essentia Essentia is an open-source C++ library for audio analysis and audio-based music information retrieval
Spear An application for audio analysis, editing and synthesis
Clubber.js Application of music theory in audio reactive visualizations
The Snail A very high-precision frequency-domain analyzer that delivers an easy to understand representation of sounds
pyAudioAnalysis A Python library covering a wide range of audio analysis tasks
Pyo A robust Python module, written in C, for music synthesis and a variety of DSP tasks
PyMIR A Python library for common tasks in Music Information Retrieval (MIR)
Live Coding
FoxDot Live Coding Music with Python & SuperCollider
SonicPi The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone
TidalCycles A Haskell based language for live coding patterns
