Open Source Music Composition Software

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/

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

Fractal/Scripting VSTi synthesizer, written on Java with jVSTwrapper

A web application allowing to transpose music for diatonic harmonica between different tonations and notations.

Tracked Music Editor Supports WAV, DLS files. Supports recording from MIDI devices.

Livemix will search directory tree for audio files, assuming each of them is a separate track, then group them into sessions based on file size, and then create a downmix for each session. Silent tracks are ignored, the others are processed by applying some effects such as compand, then normalized and then combined into downmix with equal volume. Sessions are named by the time of recording in YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS format. Intended use is to quickly generate mp3 previews of live multitrack music recordings (such as rehearsals or live performances), created by some sound recording software (Avid ProTools or Audacity for example). Livemix uses SoX sound processing utity to do all the work with tracks preprocessing and mixing, and LAME mp3 encoder to produce final mp3 file. Therefore, livemix needs sox and lame executables to be in search path or in the same dir as livemix executable.

A multiplatform module playing library, and a tracker project, written in Free Pascal. Intended to achieve near 100% compatibility with the four classic and most popular trackers from the DOS and Amiga eras - Impulse Tracker 2.14, Fast Tracker 2, Scream Tracker 3 and ProTracker. Tralala Impulsive is a tracker, attempting to recreate the user experience of Impulse Tracker.