CNMAT is located in historic Genevieve McEnerney Hall (once the headquarters of 1750 Arch Records and the Arch Ensemble), on the hilly north edge of the UC Berkeley Campus. The CNMAT facility includes research labs, seminar rooms, performance spaces, offices, and digital audio recording, analysis and synthesis facilities. The building itself was renovated in 1992. Studios and laboratories are constantly being refined to maintain professional standards and provide unique resources essential to our mission.

CNMAT's main room has been equipped as a high-quality multichannel Sound Spatialization Theater with Meyer [1] speakers.

Due in part to close affiliations with Stanford University's and France's , CNMAT also maintains an unusually broad array of software tools for various musical and research uses. For example, users have access to the standard software synthesis programs (such as cmusic, csound, and cmix), sound analysis software, DSP software (filter design programs, signal analysis, and real-time instrumentation and control), various programming environments (C, C++, Java, Scheme, Common Lisp, Processing Smalltalk, Max/MSP, SuperCollider, FTS, Matlab, Mathematica, OSW etc.). Real-time control of music synthesis, both at the gestural (OSC, MIDI) and at the audio (DSP) level, is possible through the use of the Max/MSP programming environment. CNMAT is pre-eminent in MAX development, tools, and production.