Supercollider, faust, chuck, csound, pure data, common music, common lisp music, and nyquist all work on Linux. Most of the open source music programming languages make Linux a high priority!

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Towaway69 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I would recommend supercollider because it’s UI components also translate well from Mac to Linux - I created a single app with a nice UI in supercollider and it worked seamlessly on both Linux and Mac.

Admittedly I haven’t used any other sound programming language, so my opinion is heavily biased ;-)

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iainctduncan 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Pure Data's UI works identically on all platforms. The others I mentioned are text languages.

If you've never used anything other than SC, it's well worth learning some others. Different paradigms make different things easier, and thus affect what you are most likely to do with them.

Personally, my axe of choice these days is running text languages from within the patchers, such as Csound in Max or PD.

	▲	wwweston an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Like, using the patchers for flow, and the text to define node behavior? If so, can you offer pointers to where that’s explained for pd?