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• supercollider

  64 5,198 8.4 C++

  An audio server, programming language, and IDE for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition.

  

SuperCollider is still around and really mature, Sonic Pi and Overtone are build on top of it. CSound and Faust are more than mature also.

https://supercollider.github.io/

• overtone

  27 5,806 8.6 Clojure

  Collaborative Programmable Music

  

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• faust

  54 2,403 9.6 C++

  Functional programming language for signal processing and sound synthesis (by grame-cncm)

  

• csound

  21 1,184 2.6 C

  Main repository for Csound

  

• scheme-for-max

  34 181 2.8 C

  Max/MSP external for scripting and live coding Max with s7 Scheme Lisp

There are many very "serious" ones, but they won't replace DAWs because the audience for a programming language tool for computer music looks is very different.

A few off the top of my head that are used and/or made by serious computer music people: Common Music, Nyquist, Euterpea, Open Music, Common Lisp Music, Snd, Csound, SuperCollider, Chuck, Perry Cook's STK, and my own Scheme for Max and Scheme for Pd.

My own Scheme for Max is (modesty aside) interesting because it takes one of the serious code tool lineages and enables running it in a DAW. It allows you to port Common Music algorithmic composition code into Ableton Live through Scheme for Max. You get the ability to work in and sync up with Live, but if you want it, all the potential complexity and power of Scheme and Common Music.

https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max

• Tidal

  24 2,125 6.7 C++

  Pattern language

  

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