Software

The following links point to home pages for software related to music analysis, music psychology, and auditory processing.

• Armadillo is a real/non-real time GUI sound analysis/display program. Armadillo runs on a Power Mac, preferably a G3 or G4 with at least 64 Mbyte memory.
  
  
• Csound is a programming language suitable for sound synthesis and audio processing. It provides precise control over all aspects of sound design. Csound also provides useful utilities for sound analysis and re-synthesis, such as the phase vocoder and linear predictive analysis. Csound Resources for Linux.
  
  
• Humdrum Toolkit for music researchers. Humdrum provides a comprehensive set of utilities suitable for manipulating and analizing musical scores. Humdrum is also able to help in the analysis of performance-related data (such as MIDI), and is especially useful for manipulating user-defined representations (such as special notations employed by ethnomusicologists).
  
  
• Instrument Samples at the University of Iowa. A small database of musical instrument tones. Including saxophone, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, horn, flute and balloon.
  
  
• MAX is a Macintosh-based graphical programming environment for music and multimedia. Users can create custom programs with MIDI input/output and CD audio. Programs are created by assembling and connecting graphical components on a screen. Available as a commercial product by Opcode.
  
  
• MuPsych. is a Java-based package for designing and implementing experiments in music psychology. MuPsych provides an environment within which to design and run sophisticated experiments using networked computers without the need for programming. For the Java programmer MuPsych offers a set of easily expandable class libraries that can be used to simplify the process of writing a program that runs an experiment.
  
  
• MuseData Archive. An archive of high-quality encoded musical scores. Repertories emphasize Western classical and traditional folk materials. Data are available in several formats, including MIDI, MIDI+, Humdrum, and MuseData. Also available are printable .pdf files containing full scores and individual parts. Produced by the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities.
  
  
• MaMuTh. A software toolkit for representating and analysing musical structure.
  
  
• Music Experiment Development System (MEDS). The Music Experiment Development System is a Windows based environment for developing and running multimedia perception experiments. Direct support is provided for sampled sound, MIDI playback and keyboard responses, .AVI digital video and animation (with sound), laser disk, CD audio, bitmaps of scores or images, and numerous subject response mechanisms, including words, images, keypresses, and sound responses.
  
  
• M4C is a Unix-based Music-N-style program for sound synthesis, including additive synthesis using SNDAN output.
  
  
• Queensland Conservatorium index to Software Tools for Music Theory and Analysis An index to software for music theory, analysis, and composition. Identifies software for PCs and Macintosh systems.
  
  
• SHARC timbre database for musical instrument tones. SHARC contains spectral analyses for 1,300 recorded tones from the complete chromatic range of the principal orchestral instruments. (Percussion instruments -- including the piano -- are excluded.) For each tone, amplitudes and phases are given for all harmonics up to 10,000 Hz.
  
  
• SNDAN is a UNIX-based suite of programs for musical sound spectral analysis, graphics, spectral modification, and additive synthesis.
  
  
• Sound and MIDI software for Linux.
  
  
• STK - The Synthesis Toolkit.. A set of portable, user-extendable audio signal processing tools written in C++.