[linux-audio-dev] Modulars

[Juhana Sadeharju]

Hello.

Below is an unfinished list of modular synths. Better than nothing.
This kind of simple lists gives a good overall picture of the situation.

For us developers the list should have following info: have source code?
have manuals? have screenshots? have example instrument files?
I think I have collected enough all of that.

BTW, the paper on first interactive graphics system (I.Sutherland's
SketchPad 1963) gives the idea that the drawn circuit diagram could
directly be used as input to the circuit simulators.

Digital modulars have been around as long but I could not find
anything (between 1963-1980) on having a graphical frontend to them.
Of course, I do not have access to many old papers.

Regards,
Juhana

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                   Source  Graph   Script
Name               Code    GUI     UI      Author/Notes
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AlsaModularSynth   Yes     Yes     No      M.Nagorni & F.Adriaensen
AnalogBox          No      Yes     ?       ?
Arts               Yes     Yes     No      ?
AudioMulch         No      Yes     ?       Ross Bencina
BlockCompiler      OnHold  No      Yes     M. Karjalainen
Building Blocks    No      Yes     ?       MIDI only
CPS                No      Yes     ?       Niels Gorisse
Csound             Yes     No      Yes     Barry Vercoe
Cmusic             Yes     No      Yes     ?
DirectCsound       ?       ?       ?       ?
DreamStation       No      ?       ?       Audio Simulation
Fugue              Yes     No      Yes     ?
Gabriel            ?       Yes     ?       ?
Galan              Yes     Yes     ?       ?
Gdam               Yes     Yes     ?       ?
Harmonizer/Vsig    No      Yes     Yes     Eventide
Infinity           No      Yes     ?       Sound Quest
InstrumentBuilder  No      Yes     ?       Mark Trombino, Csound frontend
jMax               Yes     Yes     Yes     IRCAM
JSyn               No      ?       ?       ?
Kyma               No      ?       ?       Symbolic Sound
LabView            No      Yes     Yes     National Instruments
Matlab/Simulink    No      Yes     ?       Mathworks
MAX/MSP            No      Yes     ?       Cycling '74
Moog Modular V     No      ?       ?       Arturia
NMEdit             Yes     Yes     No      ?
Nord Modular       No      Yes     No      Clavia
Nyquist            Yes     No      Yes     R.B. Dannenberg
OASYS              No      ?       ?       Korg
OpenMusic          ?       Yes     ?       IRCAM
PatchWork          ?       ?       ?       ?
PD                 Yes     Yes     No      Miller Puckette
Pulsar/Scope/Noah  No      Yes     No      Creamware
PSK                Yes     No      Yes     ?
Ptolemy            Yes     Yes     ?       ?
Quasimodo          Yes     Yes     No      Paul Davis
Reaktor            No      Yes     No      Native Instruments
Reality            No      ?       ?       Seer Systems
SAOL               Yes     No      Yes     ?
Scilab/Scicos      Yes     ?       ?       ?
Sildex/Signal      ?       ?       ?       ?
Spiralsynthmodular Yes     Yes     ?       ?
SPT                ?       ?       ?       Synthetic Intelligence
Supercollider      No      ?       Yes     James McCartney
SynC Modular       No      ?       ?       ?
SynthBuilder       Yes     Yes     ?       Staccato Systems
Tassman            No      Yes     No      Applied Acoustics
Tempest            No      Yes     ?       Virtual Labs
Vaz Modular        No      Yes     No      STL/Martin Fay
VirSyn             No      ?       ?       ?
Virtual Waves      No      Yes     ?       Synoptic
Visual Orchestra   No      ?       ?       ?
WaveWarp           No      ?       ?       Sounds Logical

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