Subsections
http://www.cycling74.com/ - Company: The commercial version of Puredata known as Max/MSP. Largely compatible with Pd but a nicer GUI interface and professional patch management facilities aimed at the studio musician.
http://earcom.net/ - Project leader: Paul Weir. A group working on aesthetically sensitive interactive and generative music for airports, supermarkets and other public spaces. Developing in Max/MSP language. Server based management, generation and delivery of procedural audio content. Public sound installations in spaces such as Glasgow and Heathrow Airports and the chain of Tesco supermarkets in the UK.
http://www.native-instruments.com/Company: Authors of possibly the best software synthesiser ever produced? Reaktor
is certainly the most widely used. Also designers of the Kontakt
format, a versatile sample bank specification.
http://www.seersystems.com/Company: Still actively researching and developing prodecural music generation and delivery systems after 10 years, many products for the Windows PC including the much applauded Reality
software synthesiser.
Have I forgotten you? Sorry. Are you not on this list but actively doing R&D in generative music, synthesis or sound with games or interative applications? - please drop the author an email with a brief summary
Andy Farnell
http://obiwannabe.co.uk/