Hi Richard, If you are looking for a free (libre and gratis) modular environment for teaching creative interactive audio in schools, you might want to take a look at Integra Live: http://integralive.org
It isn't particularly a "synthesis environment", but it does have some synthesis modules. A common teaching use-case is to start with the high level module and then look "under the hood" by examining the underlying Pure a Data patch in our Module Creator tool. Best, Jamie Sent on the move > On 14 Dec 2013, at 11:27, Richard Dobson <richarddob...@blueyonder.co.uk> > wrote: > > I am interested to look at this, primarily as another possible resource for > schools teaching sound and music computing (especially when fully > multi-platform), but disappointed that I have to subscribe to something > simply in order to download it, when it is not even clear what I would become > a "member" of. I may just be suffering from subscription fatigue, but this > seems unnecessary, and in my case entirely off-puttting. Can't it just be > made available as a simple download for those interested in early testing? I > would not want to recommend it to teachers if they all had to subscribe to > something first; they probably have even more subscription fatigue than I do. > They would for example need to be able to install it on a school network > without requiring each student to subscribe to what is presumably an > un-moderated forum not expressly designed for youngsters. > > > > Richard Dobson > > > > >> On 14/12/2013 06:19, Frank Sheeran wrote: >> It looks like I forgot to mention: Moselle's no-cost download is >> available at: >> http://moselle.invisionzone.com/index.php?/files/file/2-moselle-alpha-release >> -- >> dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: >> subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp >> links >> http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp >> http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp > > -- > dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: > subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp > links > http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp