List of audio programming languages

• ABC notation, a language for notating music using the ASCII character set
• ChucK, strongly timed, concurrent, and on-the-fly audio programming language
• Real-time Cmix, a MUSIC-N synthesis language somewhat similar to Csound
• Common Lisp Music, 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 which borrows a core foundation from the Impromptu environment
• FAUST, Functional Audio Stream, a functional compiled language for efficient real-time audio signal processing
• Hierarchical Music Specification Language, 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
• 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
• Kyma
• Max/MSP, a proprietary, modular visual programming language aimed at sound synthesis for music
• Music Macro Language, 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
• Pure Data, a modular visual programming language for signal processing aimed at music creation
• Reaktor
• Sonic Pi
• Structured Audio Orchestra Language, part of the MPEG-4 Structured Audio standard
• SuperCollider
• SynthEdit,a modular visual programming language for signal processing aimed at creating Audio_plug-ins