Open Source Python MIDI Software

Canorus is the next generation music score editor. It is the official successor of NoteEdit. It uses Qt4, has scripting capibilities and uses modern development standards like eclipse, patterns and test units as base.

Splits and converts your MIDI files to tablatures or sheet music for a wide range of diatonic harmonicas.

ctypes Python module for BASS (http://un4seen.com) audio library. Android version (http://www.techshinobi.com/index.php/pybass-bass-audio-api-on-android-trials)

oscp by ariel/KotCzarny @ irc://irc.freenode.com/h3droid tiny media player: - libav (mp3, wav, ogg, aac, mpc, wma, flac, ape, avi, mkv, flv, etc.) - wildmidi (mid) - xmp (mod, med, xm, s3m, it, dbm, psm, omx, okt, digi, 669, mtm, acid, umx) - gme (ay, gbs, gym, hes, kss, nsf, nsfe, sap, spc, vgm) - sidplay2 (sid, psid, info) - mdxplay (mdx) - fc14dec (fc, fc13, fc14) - sc68 (sc68, sndh) - asapconv (sap, cmc, cm3, cmr, cms, dmc, dlt, mpt, mpd, rmt, tmc, tm8, tm2) - uade (fc, bp, ay, dl, tfmx, hip, mon, sa, ahx, aon, cust, etc.) feats: - small and fast - zip/rar support - ncurses ui with easy navigation - gtk or classic winamp skins mode (with the ability to load random one) - network remotes (crossplatform linux/windows, written in pygtk, protocol is plain text, ie. easy to write own client) - scrobble (last.fm) - built-in equalizer and effects - lirc (remote) - slave libs statically compiled in (no deps) -- read more in wiki above

wtf2osc converts several protocols to OSC (Open Sound Control) and back again and though makes it possible to use them in software like pd, Max or SuperCollider. Currently it supports only DMX and HTTP, expect more to come.

Aldrin is an open source modular music sequencer/tracker for the GNU/Linux operating system. Aldrin is currently in beta stage and fully functional. Feel free to try and use it.

Schnolgo is a multi-format musical composition package written in Python. It is built with an extremely flexible system for representing rhythmic structures and is intended to allow for songs to be written so as to make use of "guided improvisation".

The MusicKit & SndKit is an object-oriented software system for building music, sound, signal processing & MIDI applications. The distribution is a comprehensive package that includes on-line documentation, code examples, utilities, applications & scores

Analyzer for Files (AoF) is a tool to look into file contents, analyze the structure with installed plug-ins, and show the results with several split windows including converted data and a tree if successful. It was designed as a workbench with a core and plug-in extensions. It can handle the normal plain-text file and data, complex binaries supported with the corresponding plug-ins. What's more, the developers can deploy and release their own plug-ins according to the plug-in developing standard. The development site is https://bitbucket.org/cadappl/anafile.

CLIJACK is a command-line alternative to such programs as QjackCtl. CLIJACK allows one to launch the JACK audio server and make connections between jack-audio ports, jack-MIDI ports, and ALSA-MIDI ports. CLIJACK is written in pure Python.

Cabel is a graphical user interface for building Csound instruments by patching modules similar to modular synthesizers. Cabel modules are defined in XML files, so anybody with some Csound knowledge can write his/her own modules and play with them.

Fripp is a music composition environment that uses a spreadsheet metaphor for manipulating music with built-in and user-created functions. Supports MIDI playback and recording. Displays music in common notation. Written in Python.

Nautic Radio Broadcast Console is a darkice (shoutcast / icecast source client available at http://darkice.org/ ) frontend, that allows you to play jingles (audio samples), capture a webcam images to send to an FTP, chat with listeners (through an external webchat site) and monitor your audio and system (cpu, network) The program is developed, and used in production, for www.nauticradio.net / www.beatsnbreaks.nl and targeted at relatively old computers running linux. However it is not tested on many platforms, nor guaranteed to be stable. Minimum system requirements: CPU: 3 GHz pentium 4 or higher (preferably 2+ GHz dualcore), Memory: 1GB RAM or more, Diskspace: 10MB plus enough to record broadcasts in mp3.

Pyramid is a simple scripted MIDI mapper for Windows and Linux. It allows MIDI messages, from software or MIDI hardware, to be transformed by a small Python script and broadcast.

[This library has moved to: https://github.com/vishnubob/python-midi/] Read, write, process and build MIDI streams using a high level pythonic API. Support for the ALSA sequencer provides the ability to accurately transmit and receive MIDI data.

Modular portable graphical based music editor. A new concept loosely based on the tracker-interface. Aimed to be used by both amatours and serious composers. Status for AmigaOS is stable, status for Unix is pre-alpha.

Up- and download patch data to/from MIDI equipment via sysex messages

A simple tool to convert sysex parameter settings of Behringer's BCR2000 Midi controller.

BASH!KARAOKE IS A FREE KARAOKE PLAYER FOR LINUX AND BSD Supported formats: *.mid, *.kar, *.wrd , *.mod, *.rcp, *.r36, *.g18, *.g36 TRANSLATION (HELP US!): English and Italian in EasyBashGUI mode, English only (for now... GTK mode) .. The goal is a karaoke player that: Is installable with very few dependencies; Is ready to use after dependency check, -no configuration-; Support SoundFonts to improve sound quality; Works with a simple song database; Can trim levels (pitch, speed, volume) and mute channels; and soon, with a new GTK3 interface, with which you can sing in fullscreen! Moreover, usage of EasyBashGUI allows user to fit Bash!Karaoke look'n'feel to his taste,depending on wich Desktop Environment he uses or prefers( KDE, GNOME or other), through GtkDialog, KDialog, Zenity,or even bare (c)dialog. Please take the survey here: http://bashkaraoke.altervista.org/bk/en/sondaggio/

Harmonia is a tool for analyzing music scores exported to MIDI or MusicXML format. It allows you to detect voices inside a single MIDI track (eg. live piano recording), main themes (and their motifs), harmonic key and chord interpretation.

JackFX is a python module for midi control and realtime audio effects processing built using the Jack Audio Connection Kit. Effects are stackable, and can be chained in any configuration with only a few lines of python code.

A GTK/Glade based management interface for the PODxt (Live and Pro) from Line 6. Written in Python for Linux. It requires a MIDI connection to the device and the Line6 USB driver from http://www.tanzband-scream.at/line6/

LiveAPI is an Open Source project that allows remote access to Ableton Live's user-interface API.

A musician's live performance VST host. This software is intended to help integrate VST technology into your live performances on stage, whether it'd be using virtual instruments or effects, or to automate audio routing.