Open Source Windows Music Composition Software

Convert words and sentences to 5 note chords you can use to inspire music creation. Have fun turning your name, your city name, your friends' names, your team's name, your pet's name into wild and original harmonies that go beyond serialism and classic jazz.

Convert images to chords.

Color to Chord The program will convert colors to chords, to inspire music composition.

Design wild harmonies that go beyond Schoenberg serialism and classic jazz harmony, with this program to generate random chords and matching scales.

WYSIWYG design, notes are entered on a "virtual notepaper". TrueType font(s) for printing & display allows for high quality scaling to all sizes. Easy & fast note entry, with many editing functions. MusicXML import/export, and MIDI (SMF) import/export. MuseData import, MIDI input for note entry, with integrated sequencer and software synthesizer to play the score. You can print or create pdf files. MuseScore provides a number of learning resources to help the new user get started. When you run MuseScore for the first time, the Startup Wizard appears to help you set up some basic features of the software. One of these features is called Tours, and, as the name suggests, gives you a guided tour of the program. MuseScore offers a full set of instructions videos, each covering a specific subject. In the Tutorials section on musescore.org you will also find tutorials on more specific topics (e.g. MuseScore Drumline).

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.

QMidiArp is a MIDI arpeggiator, phrase generator and controller LFO for ALSA and JACK. It can run multiple synchronized arpeggiators, LFOs and step sequencers. The modules are also available as LV2 plugins with Qt user interface. QMidiArp has been growing since june 2009 on top of Matthias Nagorni's original arp idea.

Create music easily, and show musical scores and audio files in R Markdown documents, R Jupyter Notebooks and RStudio.

Overtone is an open-source audio environment designed to explore new musical ideas from synthesis and sampling to instrument building, live coding and collaborative jamming. We combine the powerful SuperCollider audio engine, with Clojure, a state-of-the-art lisp, to create an intoxicating interactive sonic experience. Synchronize your visuals and noise with ease. Overtone features seamless integration with both Quil, a Clojure front-end to Processing and ShaderTone, a Clojure version of ShaderToy an OpenGL glsl shader programming environment. Overtone has been designed and engineered for live coding. Our lisp heritage means that synthesizers, effects, analyzers and musical generators can be programmed and modified live in real-time whilst the sound keeps on blasting out. Overtone is more than just software, it's also a growing community.

Psycle is a Music tracker (like FastTracker 2 or Impulse Tracker) combined with plugin modularity. It supports its own plugin API, the VST2 plugin standard, and a tracker style sampler playback.

Just download the above zip file, extract it and then open the respective index.html file on your favourite internet browser and follow the instructions shown.

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

Generative music is a fascinating and innovative approach to music creation that involves creating procedurally generated music that evolves and changes over time. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned musician, this guide will introduce you to the world of generative music and show you how to create your own live music performances. Generative music is music that is ever-changing and created in real-time. It can be created by anyone, with or without musical experience. Learn how to create and enjoy generative music with our beginner's guide. Generative music is an exciting new way to create music that evolves and changes over time. This guide is perfect for beginners and those who want to learn more about how to create live generative music.

MidiToLily is a Windows console application that converts a MIDI file to LilyPond format. You can create sheet music from a MIDI file by using MidiToLily as a preprocessor for LilyPond. MidiToLily is an alternative to the midi2ly script that ships with LilyPond.

Name a chord and find all scales from a group of notes.

A free sound editor, DarkAudacity is the well known Audacity sound editor now with a darker more modern theme - and a few small tweaks. The audio engine underneath is the same audio engine. The same code powers it. Like Audacity it is completely free. It's not a cut down trial evaluation version. You can record and play sounds, edit sounds, apply audio effects and save what you create for ringtones, podcasts and more. DarkAudacity is Open Source, free for you to download and use on your PC. Audacity and DarkAudacity come from a community effort. Many people have contributed to the audio code. Because they are Open Source, anyone is allowed to read and modify the source code. DarkAudacity is a variation on the Audacity software, made possible because Audacity is Open Source.

This simple piano was made in Adobe Flash with AS3.0.

HyperVoicing is designed to create note-to-note musical compositions. HyperVoicing has six keyboard editors, a drum editor and a MIDI editing table. HyperVoicing has a composition aid called "MIDI Layer". This composition aid based on : - a chord generator, - a system for calculating playable scales on chords, - the materialization of playable scales in a keyboard editor by horizontal lines.

A script to pack a set of audiobook mp3 files to a single file. Convert the output to desired quality level.

NOTE: This is a legacy sourceforge project. Please download the software from https://openmpt.org/ instead. The official code repository can now be found at https://source.openmpt.org/browse/openmpt/ OpenMPT is a Windows-based audio application used to produce music. The application was initially a private project developed by Olivier Lapicque and is a popular 'tracker' used by many musicians. OpenMPT is available as both a 32-bit and 64-bit application. For more information and downloads, see https://openmpt.org/ libopenmpt, a cross-platform module playback library, is based on the OpenMPT project. Up-to-date libopenmpt downloads and documentation can be found at https://lib.openmpt.org/

Frescobaldi is a free and open source LilyPond sheet music text editor. Designed to be powerful yet lightweight and easy-to-use, Frescobaldi offers great functionality and a host of useful features such as music view with advanced two-way Point & Click, Midi capturing to enter music, a Snippet Manager and many more. Frescobaldi is named after Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), an Italian composer of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period.

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.

This open-source plugin suite aims at extending Sibelius to allow it to handle microtonal music (up to the eighth-tone) and play it back with various synthesizers (currently Kontakt 5, UVI station and Max/MSP). This library offers among others the following features: − insertion of microtones in the music − transposition using microtonal intervals − precise polyphonic playback of microtonal music with Kontakt and Max/MSP, without the requirement for pitch bends (the standard playback system of Sibelius is limited to monodies, and its use of pitch bends entails undesired pitch glitches in the rendering) − handling of microtonal scales, build scales, check if the music material belongs to a given scale, warping from one scale to another one, transpose notes to the closest member of a microtonal scale, etc. −  handling of microtonal artificial harmonics and microtonal glissandi The development of this library has been commissioned by the CIRM studios, Nice, France

Netabc.tcl is a user interface for creating web pages that display the contents of abc music notation files using Jef Moine's Abc2svg JavaScript library. Every browser whether it is on a desktop, cellphone or tablet has a JavaScript engine that can render this music.