LMMS aims to be a free alternative to popular (but commercial and closed- source) programs like FruityLoops, Cubase and Logic giving you the ability of producing music with your computer by creating cool loops, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples, having more fun with your
... [More] MIDI-keyboard and much more...
LMMS combines the features of a tracker-/sequencer-program (pattern-/channel-/ sample-/song-/effect-management) and those of powerful synthesizers and samplers in a modern, user-friendly and easy to use graphical user-interface. [Less]
ZynAddSubFX is a powerful realtime, multi-timbral software synthesizer for Linux and Windows. It is microtonal, and the instruments made by it sounds like those from professional keyboards. The program has effects like Reverb, Echo, Chorus, Phaser...
Create, play back, and print sheet music for free. MuseScore is cross-platform, multi-lingual, open source music notation software. It features an easy to use WYSIWYG editor with audio score playback for results that look and sound beautiful. It supports unlimited staves with up to four voices each
... [More], dynamics, articulations, lyrics, chords, lead sheet notation, import/export of MIDI and MusicXML, export to PDF and WAV, plus online score sharing. [Less]
This program is an audio-player, written with the help of the Qt library. The program has user interface, similar to winamp or xmms.
Extra features:
- xmms and Winamp 2.x skins support;
- 10-band equalizer;
- MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AAC+ streams support;
- MMS support;
- MPRIS;
- removable
... [More] device detection;
- video playback via Mplayer;
- lyrics (using lyrics.wikia.com);
- cover art support;
- CUE sheet support;
- embedded CUE support (for FLAC and WavPack);
- multiple playlists;
- automatic charset detection for cue files and ShoutCast metadata;
- playlist formats: m3u, pls, xspf;
- ReplayGain support;
- Last.fm/Libre.fm scrobbler;
- CDDB support;
- stream browser. [Less]
Qsynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. Eventually it may evolve into a softsynth management application allowing the user to control and manage a variety of command line softsynth but for the moment it wraps the excellent FluidSynth.
... [More] FluidSynth is a command line software synthesiser based on the Soundfont specification. [Less]
Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit.
The initial target platform will be Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio, and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI, are the main infrastructures to evolve as
... [More] a fairly-featured Linux Desktop Audio Workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio. [Less]
SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server.
SuperCollider was written by James
... [More] McCartney over a period of many years, and is now an open source project maintained and developed by various people. It is used by musicians, scientists, and artists working with sound. [Less]
Csound is a powerful and yet easy to use musical synthesis package. Csound was constructed in the tradition of so-called music-N languages, among which the best-known is Music V. It consists of an orchestra- and score-driven executable, written in C for portability. Since Csound is a computational
... [More] language, it is highly flexible and efficient; complexity is gained only at the expense of computation power. Basically, Csound reads some files and creates the result as a sound file on disk or, on faster machines, in real time through a DAC. [Less]
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