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music studio consists of a plugin architecture that allows the audio to be routed from one plugin to another in many ways, similar to how cables carry an

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between physical pieces of hardware. All aspects of signal

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and manipulation are handled entirely by the plugin system. Signal synthesis is performed by "Generators" such as synthesizers, noise generator functions, samplers, and trackers. The signal can then be manipulated further by "Effects" such as distortions, filters, delays, and mastering plugins.

List of software with modular capabilities

Free audio software

* SpiralSynthModular *

Pure Data Pure Data (Pd) is a visual programming language developed by Miller Puckette in the 1990s for creating interactive computer music and multimedia works. While Puckette is the main author of the program, Pd is an open-source project with a large d ...

* jMax * SynFactory *

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Jeskola Buzz Jeskola Buzz is a freeware modular software music studio environment designed to run on Microsoft Windows using MFC. It is centered on a modular plugin-based machine view and a multiple pattern sequencer tracker. Buzz consists of a plugin arch ...

* Psycle is a tracker combined with modular capabilities * SuperCollider is a platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition *

Buzztrax Buzztrax is a free software project designed to create a clone of the Buzz music composer. Its functionality is to preserve the playability of the compositions made with Buzz. Songs are made by adding virtual sound generators and effects, conne ...

* Aldrin *

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VCV Rack VCV Rack is a free and open-source cross-platform software modular synthesizer. Overview VCV Rack is a free open-source virtual modular synthesizer: multiple modules can be connected to synthesize a sound. By default, the software contains sev ...

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Other audio software

* Audulus *

Reaktor Reaktor is a graphical modular software music studio developed by Native Instruments (NI). It allows musicians and sound specialists to design and build their own instruments, samplers, effects and sound design tools. It is supplied with many r ...

AudioMulch AudioMulch is modular audio software for making music and processing sound. The software can synthesize sound and process live and pre-recorded sound in real-time. AudioMulch has a patcher-style graphical user interface, in which modules calle ...

Max/Msp Max, also known as Max/MSP/Jitter, is a visual programming language for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling '74. Over its more than thirty-year history, it has been used by composers, per ...

Bidule Bidule is a commercial software application for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia produced by the Canadian company Plogue Arts and Technology. It runs on both Windows and Mac computers. Bidule uses a modular structure ...

Reason Reason is the capacity of consciously applying logic by drawing conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth. It is closely associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, science, ...

* SynthEdit * SynthMaker * SunVox * AudioGL *

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* Integra Live * Modulince * Jasuto *

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* VSTforX * Metaplugin * Audulus * MUX Modular * CPS * Cabbage Studio * Praxis Live Music software plugin architectures

List of software with modular capabilities

Free audio software

Other audio software

See also