SuperCollider is a platform for audio synthesis and algorithmic composition, used by musicians, artists, electroacoustic department in academia, and researchers working with sound. It is free and open source software available for Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD. Musicians who have used it include: Aphex Twins, etc.
Similar to Max/Msp for Ableton and the open source version known as Pure Data which allows artists to create custom synthesizers visually; SuperCollider is essentially a text based, programming based version of the tools described above - which often times lends itself to being extremely powerful, flexible because of the endless possibilities that can be derived from the way it is programmed and structured. Essentially, any synthesizer existing in the market today can be emulated with enough know-how, while at the same time, it has an impressive library of existing SynthDef others have created that are ready to be used. If one is so inclined, it can also be used to create visual controllers on screen or visualization for live performance. **I'll be honest, I'm a novice when it comes to Linux and BSD, so I'm posting this here hoping that perhaps someone more knowledgeable and experienced might be tempted to give it a try in porting this fantastic software to OpenBSD 😝 * If anyone is interested, here are some relevant links below: https://supercollider.github.io/ https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider/ https://www.freshports.org/audio/supercollider/ https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/supercollider/ Music Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY8eNSu6HrU https://scsynth.org/t/slow-drone-improv/183 https://sovnrecords.bandcamp.com/album/subterranean-currents http://www.rukano.de/_music.html Aside from the interface it comes with, it also has Emacs and Vim support so one can program sound directly from the editor: https://github.com/supercollider/scel https://github.com/supercollider/scvim Sincerely, a shameless OpenBSD noob
