Schism Tracker is a free and open-source reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a program used to create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique "finger feel" that is difficult to replicate in part. The player is based on a highly modified version of the ModPlug engine, with a number of bugfixes and changes to improve IT playback.
ossia score is a sequencer for audio-visual artists, designed to create interactive shows. Sequence OSC, MIDI, DMX, sound, video and more, between multiple software and hardware, create interactive and intermedia scores and script with JavaScript, PureData or C++ to customize your score. Free, open source and runs on desktop, mobile, web and embedded.
Helio Workstation is free and open-source music sequencer, designed to be used on all major platforms. Why another sequencer? Most of the DAW interfaces often seem overcomplicated, and they only tend to get more and more bloated over time. Many of them are commercial, proprietary-licensed and almost none of them support all major operating systems at the same time. Helio is an attempt to rethink a music sequencer to create a tool that feels right. It aims to be a modern music creation softwa
abc2svg is a set of javascript files to edit, display, print and play music written in the ABC notation. They may be used in web browsers as well as in command line scripts with a javascript interpreter.
fooyin is a music player built around customisation. It provides a variety of widgets to help you manage and play your local collection. It's highly extensible with a plugin system and includes FooScript, a scripting language for advanced configuration of widgets. A layout editing mode enables the entire user interface to be customised, starting from a blank slate or a preset layout.
A sound designer's dream. A friendly, open community. Featuring many synthesis techniques, a great selection of filters, a flexible modulation engine, a smorgasbord of effects, and modern features like MPE and microtuning.
BallroomDJ 4 is a ballroom music player. It is designed to play music the entire evening without intervention. Manage your ballroom dance music and create song lists, automatic playlist and sequenced playlists. BallroomDJ 4 is the replacement for BallroomDJ.
The abcMIDI suite consists of programs for turning ABC music files into MIDI and vice versa, typesetting them as PostScript files, and manipulate them in several ways.
projectM - The most advanced open-source music visualizer Experience psychedelic and mesmerizing visuals by transforming music into equations that render into a limitless array of user-contributed visualizations. projectM is an open-source project that reimplements the esteemed Winamp Milkdrop by Geiss in a more modern, cross-platform reusable library. Its purpose in life is to read an audio input and to produce mesmerizing visuals, detecting tempo, and rendering advanced equations into a lim
Picard is a cross-platform music tagger written in Python. It supports all common audio formats (MP3, FLAC, OGG, M4A, WMA). And uses AcoustID audio fingerprints, for automatic music identification; or look up CD images even. For additional features, a wide list of plugins is available; and it's easy to extend.
Snd is a sound editor modelled loosely after Emacs. It can be customized and extended using either s7 (included in the Snd sources), Ruby, or Forth.
JackTrip is a Linux, macOS, or Windows multi-machine audio system used for network music performance over the Internet. It supports any number of channels (as many as the computer/network can handle) of bidirectional, high quality, uncompressed audio signal streaming. You can use it between any combination of machines e.g., one end using Linux can connect to another using macOS. Virtual Studio With JackTrip Virtual Studio, you may sing with your chorus, or jam with your band, online without le
Ampache is a web based audio/video streaming application and file manager allowing you to access your music & videos from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device. Ampache's usefulness is heavily dependent on being able to extract correct metadata from embedded tags in your files and/or the file name. Ampache is not a media organiser; it is meant to be a tool which presents an already organised collection in a useful way. It assumes that you know best how to manage your files and are
Snapcast is a multiroom client-server audio player, where all clients are time synchronized with the server to play perfectly synced audio. It's not a standalone player, but an extension that turns your existing audio player into a Sonos-like multiroom solution. Audio is captured by the server and routed to the connected clients. Several players can feed audio to the server in parallel and clients can be grouped to play the same audio stream. One of the most generic ways to use Snapcast is in co
A collection of Audio plugins
A simple graphical JACK patchbay that tries to unite the best of both worlds: Fast patching and uncluttered port representation of a matrix patchbay Excellent representation of signal flow of a flow canvas patchbay It additionally features tightly embedded graphical mixer clients automatable with JACK MIDI/OSC.
Rosegarden is a music composition and editing environment based around a MIDI sequencer that features a rich understanding of music notation and includes basic support for digital audio. Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.
video2midi is an open source crossplatfrom utility, written in python for creating midi file from Synthesia video and the like.. Works on GNU/Linux, *BSD, Windows & Mac
Audacity is a multi-track audio and sound editor. It can also record from various input devices, up to 24bit wavelength, using ALSA or JACK with latencies up to 384kHz. All common audio formats and encodings such as WAV, AIFF, AU, FLAC, OGG Vorbis, GSM, MP2, MP3, AC3, M4A/M4R (AAC) and WMA are supported. Audio layers allow cutting, editing, and applying or layering a wide range of effects. And Audacity is also cross-platform.
Ardour is an audio processing and editing application. It integrates broad hardware support, JACK and ALSA backends, flexible recording features, multi-channel nesting, import and exporting various file formats, comes with ready to use samples from freesound.org. It has a pretty editing UI, mixing, routing, monitoring, panning. Ardour allows non-destructive and non-linear editing, can be used for augmenting audio layers in video files even. And comes with many effect, input and output plugins. I
The LV2 drum machine compatible with Hydrogen drumkits (including the modern format). It is based on DrMr plugin, with the goal to make the plugin compatible with modern Hydrogen kits. Other additions/changes: sorted presets order, some code is rewritten in C++.
WildMIDI is a simple software midi player which has a core softsynth library that can be used in other applications. The WildMIDI library uses Gravis Ultrasound patch files to convert MIDI files into audio which is then passed back to the calling application. The library API is designed so that it is easy to include WildMIDI into applications that wish to include MIDI file playback.
guitarix takes the signal from your guitar as any real amp would do: as a mono-signal from your sound card. The input is processed by a main amp and a rack-section. Both can be routed separately and deliver a processed stereo-signal via Jack. You may fill the rack with effects from more than 25 built-in modules including stuff from a simple noise gate to brain-slashing modulation f/x like flanger, phaser or auto-wah. Your signal is processed with minimum latency. On any properly set-up Linux-sy
libremidi is a cross-platform C++20 library for real-time and MIDI file input and output. This is a fork / rewrite based on two libraries: RtMidi ModernMIDI Additionally, for MIDI 2 parsing support we use cmidi2!
Giada is a loop machine. Build your performance in real time by layering audio tracks or MIDI events, driven by the main sequencer. Giada is a sample player. Load samples from your crates and play them with a computer keyboard or a MIDI controller. Giada is a song editor. Write songs from scratch or edit existing live recordings with the powerful Action Editor, for a fine-tuned control. Giada is a live recorder. Record sounds from the real world and MIDI events coming from external device
Clementine is a modern music player and library organizer Clementine is a multiplatform music player. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.
SoundTouch is an open-source audio processing library for changing the Tempo, Pitch and Playback Rates of audio streams or audio files. The library additionally supports estimating stable beats-per-minute rates for audio tracks. Tempo (time stretch): Changes the sound to play at faster or slower tempo than originally without affecting the sound pitch. Pitch (key) : Changes the sound pitch or key while keeping the original tempo (speed). Playback Rate : Changes both tempo and pitch together as i
Freeware Advanced Audio (AAC) Decoder including SBR decoding
The MIDIMonster is an universal control and translation tool for most show control protocols in the entertainment industry - and lots more. Named for its scary math, the MIDIMonster is a universal control and translation tool for multi-channel absolute-value-based control and/or bus protocols.
PulseAudio is a sound server, originally created to overcome the limitations of the Enlightened Sound Daemon (EsounD). A sound server can serve many functions: Software mixing of multiple audio streams, bypassing any restrictions the hardware has. Network transparency, allowing an application to play back or record audio on a different machine than the one it is running on. Sound API abstraction, alleviating the need for multiple backends in applications to handle the wide diversity of sound s
Lollypop is a visual music collection browser and player for Gnome. It supports MP3/MP4, FLAC and OGG Vorbis, presents a genre and album cover browser, sorting and searching by genre and artist, art/cover downloading, a playing queue and different replay modes.
Core Functionality Compose music on Windows, Linux and macOS Sequence, compose, mix and automate songs in one simple interface Note playback via MIDI or typing keyboard Consolidate instrument tracks using Beat+Bassline Editor Fine tune patterns, notes, chords and melodies using Piano Roll Editor Full user-defined track-based automation and computer-controlled automation sources Import of MIDI files and Hydrogen project files Musical Instruments Built-in 64-bit
Jamulus enables musicians to perform in real-time together over the internet. A Jamulus server collects the incoming audio data from each Jamulus client, mixes that data and then sends that mix back to each client. Jamulus can support large numbers of clients with minimal latency and modest bandwidth requirements. Jamulus is free and open source software (FOSS) licensed under the GPL and runs under Windows (ASIO or JACK), MacOS (Core Audio) and Linux (JACK). It is based on the Qt framework and
Bespoke is a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). Bespoke's core design is to break everything into separate modules that can be patched together in a custom layout, much like a hardware modular. Bespoke is designed to be highly customizable, with the idea that any of the custom layouts that you create will be "bespoke" to you as well.
abcm2ps is a command-line program that converts ABC music notation files to sheet music in PostScript or SVG format.
DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is a modular audio player for GNU/Linux, *BSD, OpenSolaris, macOS, and other UNIX-like systems. DeaDBeeF lets you play variety of audio formats, convert between them, customize the UI almost any way you want, and use many additional plugins which can extend it even more.
LilyPonds slogan is "Music notation for everyone". A music engraving program, devoted to producing the highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.
master_me is a multi platform, free and open source audio plug-in which optimizes sound in live streaming situations. Introducing no latency, it takes care of master levels and ‘polishes’ the sound with a chain of effects, closely modeled after the audio chain of Klaus Scheuermann’s mastering studio in Berlin, Germany. Although tempting, it is NOT intended to automatically master your recorded music. Your art deserves closer, offline attention. Nevertheless, certain modules of master_me can be
EasyABC is an open source ABC editor for Windows, OSX and Linux. It uses abcm2ps and abcMIDI for typesetting the score and playing the music.
Audacious is an open source audio player. A descendant of XMMS, Audacious plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks. Drag and drop folders and individual song files, search for artists and albums in your entire music library, or create and edit your own custom playlists. Listen to CD’s or stream music from the Internet. Tweak the sound with the graphical equalizer or experiment with LADSPA effects. Enjoy the modern GTK-themed interface or
A simple MIDI player with a mixer (channel volume balance), instrument change and the possibility to save rebalanced MIDI files, optionally with renamed channel names. Based on Qt and QMidi, written in C++. Initially intended for those, who write music, e.g. in Lilypond, to enable "proof-listening" and for musicians to enable easy generation of rehearsal midi files.
DrumGizmo is an open source, multichannel, multilayered, cross-platform drum plugin and stand-alone application. It enables you to compose drums in midi and mix them with a multichannel approach. It is comparable to that of mixing a real drumkit that has been recorded with a multimic setup. Features include: Stand-alone, Lv2 and VSTi versions available Open drumkit file format, allowing the community to create their own drumkits Drum velocity, allowing for several different hit velocities for
Siren is a text-based audio player for UNIX-like operating systems. Supported file formats include Ogg Vorbis, MP3, Opus, FLAC, AAC, WavPack, WAVE and AIFF. Playback is possible through sndio, PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, Sun audio, PortAudio and libao. Siren is known to run on OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Linux and OS X.
Streamtuner2 is an internet radio browser. It utilizes various directory services like Shoutcast, Xiph, InternetRadio, SurfMusik, Streema, TuneIn, LiveRadio, Reddit, or Jamendo and Peertube to present categorized streaming stations. It chains to installed audio players like Audacious or VLC, uses streamripper for recording, but also allows bookmarking, exporting and easy searching.
MuseScore is a scorewriter for Windows, macOS, and Linux, comparable to Finale and Sibelius,[4] supporting a wide variety of file formats and input methods. It is released as free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. MuseScore is accompanied by a freemium mobile score viewer and playback app, and an online score sharing platform.
klystrack is a tracker for making C64/NES/Amiga-style chiptunes on a modern platform. Here are some features. Sound: Additive synthesis with filters (think SID, Atari, NES etc.); Hard sync and ring modulation (like SID); FM synthesis (think Adlib, MSX, OPL2 etc.); Wavetable for samples or custom waveforms to be used in synthesis (think Amiga, SNES); Built-in wave generator and editor; Programmable instruments not limited to simple arpeggios. Sequencer: Tracker with free positio
Exaile is a Gtk+ music player with a simple interface. It allows powerful music management, has smart playlists, tagging features, can display album art and lyrics. It can also connect to streaming servers, download podcasts. Exaile supports secondary output devices, and there are over 50 extension plugins. It's available cross-platform.
Yarock is a modern looking music player for local playlists and music collections, packed with features, that doesn’t depend on any specific desktop environment and only has minimal dependencies. Yarock is designed to provide an easy and pretty music browser based on cover art.
PlayShell is a simple console-based application for playing media files in Linux using known media players like SoX, VLC, MPlayer and FFplay as backend.
Radium is a modern music editor with a fresh and responsive interface. It provides a better sequencing overview with a widescreen layout. Positions and effects can be edited graphically. It provides for automation of velocity, effects, pitches and tempo; has smooth scrolling, MIDI sequencing, a modular mixer, LADSAP and VST plugins, zooming, microtonality, and an extension language.
A music jukebox app that disguises itself as an iTunes replacement without all the extra baggage, but is actually a web-first, fully streaming, anti-cloud, social music server that allows multiple people to listen to the same stream of music at the same time and DJ for each other. Kinda like a private turntable.fm.
Tomahawk is a music player and audio streaming service frontend for desktop usage. It manages songs, albums, playlists, meta info, social sharing. It supports various cloud services and commercial providers, such as Spotify, Beats, Google play, Soundcloud, LastFM, Hype Machine, Echo Nest, Rdio, Grooveshark, Billboard, OwnCloud, iTunes, Jamendo, Deezer, Ampache, Jabber, and Subsonic.
With JMORP you can hear and record round about 450 Internet Radiostations. You need also VLC (for listen) and streamripper (for recording) or equivalent Software. MyOggRadio is a Community Project. You participate.
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