Hello.
Below is an unfinished list of modular synths. Better than nothing.
This kind of simple lists gives a good overall picture of the situation.
For us developers the list should have following info: have source code?
have manuals? have screenshots? have example instrument files?
I think I have collected enough all of that.
BTW, the paper on first interactive graphics system (I.Sutherland's
SketchPad 1963) gives the idea that the drawn circuit diagram could
directly be used as input to the circuit simulators.
Digital modulars have been around as long but I could not find
anything (between 1963-1980) on having a graphical frontend to them.
Of course, I do not have access to many old papers.
Regards,
Juhana
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Name Code GUI UI Author/Notes
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AlsaModularSynth Yes Yes No M.Nagorni & F.Adriaensen
AnalogBox No Yes ? ?
Arts Yes Yes No ?
AudioMulch No Yes ? Ross Bencina
BlockCompiler OnHold No Yes M. Karjalainen
Building Blocks No Yes ? MIDI only
CPS No Yes ? Niels Gorisse
Csound Yes No Yes Barry Vercoe
Cmusic Yes No Yes ?
DirectCsound ? ? ? ?
DreamStation No ? ? Audio Simulation
Fugue Yes No Yes ?
Gabriel ? Yes ? ?
Galan Yes Yes ? ?
Gdam Yes Yes ? ?
Harmonizer/Vsig No Yes Yes Eventide
Infinity No Yes ? Sound Quest
InstrumentBuilder No Yes ? Mark Trombino, Csound frontend
jMax Yes Yes Yes IRCAM
JSyn No ? ? ?
Kyma No ? ? Symbolic Sound
LabView No Yes Yes National Instruments
Matlab/Simulink No Yes ? Mathworks
MAX/MSP No Yes ? Cycling '74
Moog Modular V No ? ? Arturia
NMEdit Yes Yes No ?
Nord Modular No Yes No Clavia
Nyquist Yes No Yes R.B. Dannenberg
OASYS No ? ? Korg
OpenMusic ? Yes ? IRCAM
PatchWork ? ? ? ?
PD Yes Yes No Miller Puckette
Pulsar/Scope/Noah No Yes No Creamware
PSK Yes No Yes ?
Ptolemy Yes Yes ? ?
Quasimodo Yes Yes No Paul Davis
Reaktor No Yes No Native Instruments
Reality No ? ? Seer Systems
SAOL Yes No Yes ?
Scilab/Scicos Yes ? ? ?
Sildex/Signal ? ? ? ?
Spiralsynthmodular Yes Yes ? ?
SPT ? ? ? Synthetic Intelligence
Supercollider No ? Yes James McCartney
SynC Modular No ? ? ?
SynthBuilder Yes Yes ? Staccato Systems
Tassman No Yes No Applied Acoustics
Tempest No Yes ? Virtual Labs
Vaz Modular No Yes No STL/Martin Fay
VirSyn No ? ? ?
Virtual Waves No Yes ? Synoptic
Visual Orchestra No ? ? ?
WaveWarp No ? ? Sounds Logical
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