Nyquist Alternatives

AudioMasher is a live, in-browser audio and music programming environment. The app is based on the Sporth audio programming language by Paul Batchelor, is open-source and can be used online or via self-hosting.

Csound is a sound design, music synthesis and signal processing system, providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms. It is not restricted to any style of music, having been used for many years in the creation of classical, pop, techno...

Orca is an Esoteric Programming Language and live-coding environment for musical experimentation. In Orca, each letter of the alphabet is an operation, lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame.

The SOUL platform is a language and an API. The language is a small, carefully crafted DSL for writing the real-time parts of an audio algorithm. The API is designed to deploy that SOUL code to heterogeneous CPUs and DSPs, both locally and remotely.

PraxisLIVE is an open-source, visual programming environment. Experiment with and create projects using a visual patching system coupled with the power of programming in Java, Processing and GLSL.

Pyo is a Python module to help DSP script creation. Pyo contains classes for audio signal processing. With pyo, the user will be able to chain such classes directly in Python, and to manipulate them in real time through the interpreter.

Gibber is a creative coding environment for audiovisual performance and composition. It contains features for audio synthesis and musical sequencing, 2d drawing, 3d scene construction and manipulation, and live-coding shaders.

Negasonic is a live-coding audio software. Learn to code creatively by composing, improvising or performing from your browser. It can be used in any browser, but we recommend using it with Chrome

Wavepot is a live-coding environment for creating sound and music. Build sound and music compositions on-the-fly using JavaScript and save your projects right to GitHub.

Extempore is a programming language and runtime environment designed to support the programming of real-time systems in real-time.

Slang is a simple audio programming language built with JavaScript and for the browser. It has a Lisp-like syntax and relies on Web Audio API for sound.

Evaluator is an audio creation app that lets you write short C-style programs whose output is used to generate sound! It's available as a standalone app or as a VST plugin for your DAW.