The whole thing is easier to explain if I just show a quick video(this video doesn't belong to me)
https://youtu.be/UHZAOwGzMgI This is a free simulator for modules that are put into racks in real life and wired together to make music. The real hardware goes from $40's to the thousands and rare vintage can go for even more not including the cost of the many cables needed. The simulator is designed for Linux but also has active development ports for Mac and Windows, all in open source for the most part..
The basic program is free and then most of the modules are free as well but some of the module makers want money because of it being an open platform with no rules against it and to be fair most of them put enough effort into their work to ask to be paid for it.
As an electronic engineer I've found this to be fun and educational because it simulates volts, amps, and waves as well as logic programming in some cases. It's a total toy for EEs! I don't know much about music but that's okay because there are arpeggiators, in-the-key-of tuners, beat pattern regulators, and other short cuts to sounding good without much talent.
The song in this link wasn't played on a piano roll(a graph plotting notes for the whole song) instead it was the result of a few basic pattern generators manipulating other basic pattern generators of just a few notes. This makes musical construction for novices like me easy.
It also takes inputs from the soundcard sources and has a lot of spectragraphs, scopes, meters, and key matchers simulated in the program so it can be used as a cheat for 20Khz-20hz analyzers. Just don't forget to be careful or else "BANG! You'll blow you're" -soundcard! I've hooked it into audio outputs on radio equipment and it works great for that.
One conceivable use is also for robotics as it can also put out control voltages as well as take them in through midi as well as analog signals in and out through audio channels also having logic modules with ifs,ands,ors,nands,xors, and so on. I have not tried this however and if this causes your robot to rebel I will not be held responsible.
(Information on Modular Synthesizing )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_synthesizerhttps://vcvrack.com/
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