title: List of audio programming languages
text: # List of audio programming languages
  
  This is a list of notable programming languages optimized for sound production, algorithmic composition, and sound synthesis.
  
  * ABC notation, a language for notating music using the ASCII character set
  * Bol Processor, a model of formal grammars enriched with polymetric expressions for the representation of time structures
  * ChucK, strongly timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly audio programming language
  * Real-time Cmix, a MUSIC-N synthesis language somewhat similar to Csound
  * Cmajor, a high-performance JIT-compiled C-style language for DSP
  * Common Lisp Music (CLM), a music synthesis and signal processing package in the Music V family
  * Csound, a MUSIC-N synthesis language released under the LGPL with many available unit generators
  * Extempore, a live-coding environment that borrows a core foundation from the Impromptu environment
  * FAUST, Functional Audio Stream, a functional compiled language for efficient real-time audio signal processing
  * GLICOL, a graph-oriented live coding language written in Rust
  * Hierarchical Music Specification Language (HMSL), optimized more for music than synthesis, developed in the 1980s in Forth
  * Impromptu, a Scheme language environment for Mac OS X capable of sound and video synthesis, algorithmic composition, and 2D and 3D graphics programming
  * Ixi lang, a programming language for live coding musical expression.
  * JFugue, a Java and JVM library for programming music that outputs to MIDI and has the ability to convert to formats including ABC Notation, Lilypond, and MusicXML
  * jMusic
  * JSyn
  * Keykit, programming language and portable graphical environment for MIDI music composition
  * Kyma (sound design language)
  * LilyPond, a computer program and file format for music engraving.
  * Max/MSP, a proprietary, modular visual programming language aimed at sound synthesis for music
  * Music Macro Language (MML), often used to produce chiptune music in Japan
  * MUSIC-N, includes versions I, II, III, IV, IV-B, IV-BF, V, 11, and 360
  * Nyquist
  * OpenMusic
  * Orca (music programming language)
  * Pure Data, a modular visual programming language for signal processing aimed at music creation
  * Reaktor
  * Sonic Pi
  * Structured Audio Orchestra Language (SAOL), part of the MPEG-4 Structured Audio standard
  * SuperCollider
  * SynthEdit, a modular visual programming language for signal processing aimed at creating audio plug-ins
  