Open Source Linux Music Composition Software

Rakarrack is a stereo digital effects processor for Linux with jack support. Standard line-up of nearly 40 effects modules include Equalizers, Reverbs, Echo, Flange, Chorus, Distortions, WahWah, Vocoder, and other filters and processing modules.

A featureful SID-music creation tool (tracker) for the Commodore 64. It includes many advanced effects and tools like keyboard-tracking, tempo-programs/funktempo, gateoff-table-pointers, filter-shift, SID-export, executable-export, MIDI/XM conversion and MIDI-input hardware, etc., etc. NOTE: I left SourceForge for reasons not ethical to mention here. You can find me and my further work at these locations: http://hermit.sidrip.com http://csdb.dk/scener/?id=18806 https://github.com/hermitsoft/

Buzztrax (formerly known as Buzztard) is a music production environment, based on a very modular approach taking many concepts from trackers a step further. It runs under Linux and is compatible to the windows only and close source software Buzz. The backend is using GStreamer as a multimedia framework. It can use Alsa, Jack, PulseAudio and other audio interfaces.

Give the chord progression and a style and JChordBox generates a song. JChordBox is a library tool that can generate backing tracks from a chord progression and a music style. A music Style is describe using an XML and a MIDI file. You can generate an XML Style file from a MIDI file by adding markers to delimit grooves. An XML Song file describes a chord progression and sets the music style to use. JChordBox comes with several command line tools (GenerateSong, CreateStyleFromMidiFile, SongPlayer …). NEW:The application center is called SongPlayer and is a text based user interface that can play JChordBox song. SongPlayer is a MIDI Player that can loop a song, mute or soloing tracks and displays transport informations. SongPlayer is now the default jar application. NEW:Examples have been added to the distribution package.

This project is to create an updated version of abc2midi, a tool to generate MIDI files from abc music notation. As well as improving the code, the intention is to integrate features from and improve compatibilty with the abc 2.2 standard.

MIDI Master Clock: Simple MIDI Song and Control Change Manager MIDI Master Clock is a lightweight, command-line utility for effortless MIDI device control and synchronization. It lets you define songs or cues in a simple text file, each with its own BPM and custom MIDI Control Change (CC) messages. What It Does: Reads Song Data: Configure song titles, BPM, and MIDI CCs (e.g., CC_ch0 10) in an easy-to-read data.txt file. Interactive Control: Select songs from a list, advance through your set, or quit, all from the command line. Automated MIDI Commands: When you select a song, MIDI Master Clock automatically sends: - All specified MIDI Control Changes (CCs), ideal for triggering effects or states. - MIDI Sync Commands (Stop, Song Position Pointer (0), Start) to prepare your devices. - Accurate MIDI Clock signals based on the song's BPM, keeping your gear perfectly in sync.

JDrummer is musical drum machine implemented as a Java Applet. It features up to eight tracks of notes playing simultaneously, user configurable Beats Per Minute and server side saving and loading of songs.

Mutabor is a Program that allows performing and composing microtonal music using a normal MIDI keybord. But it's powerful description language is intended to allow permanent retunings and tuning logics in to describ, what's actually goes on.

A C++ library and Python module for audio synthesis featuring dynamic digital filters. Nsound lets you easily shape waveforms and write to disk or plot them. Nsound aims to be as powerful as Csound but easy to use.

Strasheela is a constraint-based music composition system. The user defines music theories by sets of compositional rules and the system creates music which complies with these theories. User-interface is the programming language Oz.

An opensource typesetting environment for editing and publishing Carnatic music books in Indian languages. Supports Phonetic Translation of notation & lyrics and uses CFugue Runtime to automatically generate MIDI song files from the music notation.

DACML stands for Digital Audio and Computer Music Language. It is implemented as a Common Lisp library and low level C routines for efficiency. The aim is to apply functional paradigm to Computer Music composition. Licensed under GPL v. 3 or later.

foo is a sound synthesis framework which provides high-level abstracted ways of creating and manipulating sounds via a scheme language interface. foo is designed for highest audio quality rather than highest performance.

A graphic user interface program to work with abc notation

BassScales displays the tab, the bass tab, and the note for a music scale. only the starting note and a steps array have to be provided. When more than one fret combination is available, it can display all of them or only the one specified.

Delius is a free multiplataform music software based on braille music code and can be used either by sighted and non-sighted users. This software was developed in Java, has multilanguage support and it is intended to help visual impaired musicians to produce musical scores which can be exported to other symbolic music formats as MusicXML, MIDI and abc notation.

GNUGuitarINUX is a GNU/Linux Live CD with a Realtime kernel aiming to be used as an electric guitar pedal effect.

A Python library to create score files for CSound. It differs from other libraries that generate CSound scores, since a score is represented by a list that can contain different types of objects. It creates patterns in a flexible and compact way.

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A music notation program to aid musicians in composing and understanding solos. Enable musicians to improve their understanding of chord changes and solos.

The MidiRandomizer is a Java Swing application that generates MIDI files (SMF) according to a set of randomization parameters. This allows some measure of control over the random patterns produced.

OMK are several small projects that can be glued together to build custom music controllers based on both free hard- and software. Our most prominent one is the Chimaera, a polymagnetophonic theremin offering an unprecedented expressive and dynamic play.

Open Musicwriter is a multi-platform open-source music score editor. It handles MIDI files and MusicXML files.

QuarkBeat is a software and a language to teach a random builder generator how to make rhythmical patterns