Open Source Java Sound Synthesis Software

eGuideDog project develops free software for the blind. Currently, we focus on WebSpeech, Ekho TTS and WebAnywhere.

Frinika is a free, complete music workstation software for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX and other operating systems running Java. It features sequencer, soft-synths, realtime effects and audio recording.

A java front-end for LinuxSampler

As a library of classes for generating and manipulating music and sound, jMusic provides a solid framework for computer assisted composition in Java. jMusic has a music data structure based upon note/sound events and methods for modifying and structu

The Tibetan and Himalayan Library has several open-sourced tools for inputting, manipulating, translating, and transcribing Tibetan-language text, audio, and video. We aim to make using a computer easier for Himalayan peoples and scholars.

jVSTwRapper allows you to develop VST (2.4), Audio Unit (AU) and LADSPA compatible audio plugins and virtual instruments plus user interfaces (Swing) with the Java programming language on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. 5 demo plugins (+src) are included.

The project is divided into two main sections: a metronome and a click track generator. The metronome is intended as a practice aid for musicians. It loops a single bar of click track that is specified by the user. The user can select the time signature, beat division, beat grouping, bar emphasis and beat emphasis. The click track generator is intended as a song practice aid for single musicians or an entire band. Just like when recording int the studio, it provides a constant benchmark for the tempo. Both the metronome and click track are generated dynamically and played using the build in audio libraries of android. This provides a highly precise click.

Etheric Synthesizer (EtherSynth) is a theremin-like synthesizer application for Android platform, which allow you to play otherworldly melody by swiping finger on the screen. Though It does not closely imitate a real theremin as Etheric Synthesizer uses only one finger to play. It currently supports monophonic note playing with configurable waveform, frequency scale, control area, and control orientation. Basic recording function is also included (WAVE format). Etheric Synthesizer works on Android version 2.0 and above.

A buzz-like modular synthetic music software

xSonify is a Java-based sonification data analysis prototype for displaying science data as sounds, with an emphasis on supporting visually-impaired researchers. Alternatives include Sonification Sandbox <http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/research/>, MathTrax and Earth Plus <http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/>, Sonifyer <http://www.sonifyer.org> and SoniPy <http://sourceforge.net/projects/sonipy/>. More at the main forum for sonification, ICAD <http://icad.org>

BeatBox is a Java application in which users use a 16x16 grid of checkboxes to create a beat with various percussion instruments. Beats can be saved and loaded easily. The entire application is as intuitive and user-friendly as possible.

RasmusDSP is an embeddable Audio/MIDI processor. It contains various filters and generators (including SoundFont 2.0 compatible synthesizer). Has a script interpreter which is used to describe instruments, route Audio/MIDI signal between processor units.

jMax is a visual programming environment for building interactive real-time musical and multimedia applications.

Replacement for the Java Media Framework (JMF), allowing you to transport not only audio and video. In extention a modular software synthesizer designer/sequencer sharing local hardware over the internet.

JSCLang for SuperCollider is as a wrapper for a DLL file that enables the usage of the programming language SuperCollider in Java.

When generating audio, why use sine waves and standard effects? Directly tell the sound-card how much electricity should be in the speaker/microphone wires many times per second as numbers from -1 to 1. Automatically finds good sound-card options and balances between linear interpolation speeds of consuming microphone buffer (and then any Java transform function per sample) and producing into speakers buffer and to keep delay between them small. Its really simple you only have to write 1 function that takes an array parameter. First 2 indexs are output to speakers. Next index is 1 microphone. Technically you can ask it for any number of speakers and microphones, but version 0.4 only supports 2 speakers and 1 microphone simultaneously.

This project has been MOVED to https://github.com/MachinePublishers/ORiVINYLsynth Waveform editor, oscillator, coder, tinnitus & Easter Egg piano roll

Rubato Composer is a music software based on the concepts and models of mathematical music theory and equally suited for music composition, analysis, performance, and logical or geometric operations.

Syn-Thesis is an additive VST synthesizer with 4 oscillators, which is written in Java. The waveform of each oscillator can be created by adding up to 64 harmonics. Syn-Thesis is based on the jVSTwRapper and can be used as VST plugin.

Nowadays the idea of a music of the spheres, or a cosmic music that descends from the planets seems more like poetic philosophy than anything scientific. However, when the scientist Kepler discovered special principles about planetary motion, he also reconsidered the music. Apparently his observance of a harmonic law of planetary motion was reason for him to propose a computable system of pitch and harmony deriving from angular velocity. The purpose of the programming project is as a tool to examine his system. With Java 2, it provides an open-source solution for listening to harmonies so generated by planetary motion. This program can run on any computer provided with a Java Virtual Machine (Rev 1.5 or greater). JAVA 2, system independent. Purpose:to encourage research in harmony in astronomy, math and music. Obstacles:math, DSP/synthesis, networks, astronomy. Features:audio, database, graphics Technologies: Telnet, .WAV audio, oggvorbis, other audio

StringTuner is an app that plays the notes of a stringed instrument, such as a guitar, to aid in tuning the instrument. Intended for Android.

ApplPi is a stochastic noise machine that creates a soothing background noise for those who can't work in complete silence or need to mask distracting noise. It creates sound similar to any noise machine, but it's more musical and harmonic. Additionally, you can control the frequency (note) of the sound and choose from built-in presets of noise/sound.

Global Consciousness Project uses hardware "random" number generators and finds patterns between that and major world events. This Java applet will run on their webpage and translate that data to music-like audio. Or for general audio synthesizing.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) evolves musical instruments you play with the mouse from small blocks of Java code that operate on numbers, each block designed to keep all numbers in range -1 to 1 if they started in that range, and combinations of these evolved codes running 44100 times per second for high quality 44.1 khz audio. You can also write the Java code into its window. Uses Javassist internal compiler on the new Java code assembled by renaming variables to overlap eachother and reordering, copying, and removing blocks of code. Listen to the recorded music in files section of sourceforge or try it for yourself. This branched into my other projects: GigaLineCompile, JSelfModify, JSoundCard, and Human AI Net as I got more into the AI and systems side of things and explored vision research as a better user interface to network minds together through the Internet. Someday I will bring it all together in a shared space on the Internet.

Java based system for creating Bio-Musical Worlds. Investigating the use of AI (flocking,A-Life, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks) and other bio-modelling techniques for the creation and evolution of musical landscapes.