Open Source BSD Music Composition Software

Impro-Visor® is a music notation tool for producing monophonic lead sheets, specifically intended to help the improviser. Chord symbols are used to generate backing tracks automatically. Improvisation advice exists in the form of note coloration, database of licks, and automatic lick generation from grammars. Grammars can be learned automatically from transcriptions. Styles can be edited and created by the user. Other features include generation of roadmaps for understanding keys and idiomatic chord progressions, chord voicing keyboard, MIDI and MusicXML export. See http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor for general information, including tutorials. Support and additional resources are through the user group https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/impro-visor/info. The most recent source code, since summer of 2015, is housed here: https://github.com/Impro-Visor/Impro-Visor This started when SourceForge was down for over one week during an active development period.

MuseScore is the leading free & open source music notation software for Windows, Mac and Linux. It is easy to use and makes beautiful sheet music. MuseScore is often praised as a cost effective alternative for Sibelius and Finale. Support MuseScore at http://musescore.org/en/donate Like MuseScore on Facebook: http://facebook.com/musescore

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.

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/

MusE is a Qt based audio/midi sequencer with editing and recording capabilities for linux.

SoundHelix is a free versatile Java framework for algorithmic random music composition. SoundHelix can generate random songs, play them (for example, on any number of MIDI devices or MIDI-capable software synthesizers) and is highly customizable using XML configuration. SoundHelix also allows writing the generated music as MIDI files. SoundHelix produces music that is actually enjoyable to listen to.

Common Music (CM) is a real-time music composition system implemented in JUCE/C++ and Scheme. It generates musical output via MIDI, OSC, CLM, FOMUS and CSOUND. Its user application is called GRACE (Graphical Real-time Algorithmic Composition Environment)

ScoreDate is your date with the music ! It is an open source software written in Java that helps musicians to learn music reading. It also helps you with ear training. It is suitable for any skill, from beginners to professional users. From slow training to first sight reading.

Standalone, LV2 and VST instruments & effects generating weird sounds, noises and glitches, for experimental music. Heavily inspired by the Futurist musician Luigi Russolo, the aim of this project is to create new instruments for the new century.

Jniz is a piece of software designed for musicians as a support tool to the musical composition. It allows you to build and to harmonize several voices according to the rules of classical harmony. Sound/audio-to-Midi converter: real-time conversion of any monophonic sound (voice, instrument etc.) into notes / tones. Jniz is a free proprietary piece of software. You do not have the right to sell, distribute Jniz or use its sources under penalty of law. You will infringes on the Jniz staff property rights. Please review the use license here: http://www.jniz.org/index.php/en/license

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

A virtual piano in flash. Play and record music with the mouse or keyboard.

GNUGuitarINUX is a GNU/Linux Live CD with a Realtime kernel aiming to be used as an electric guitar pedal effect.

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.

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A sequencer specialized for extended just intonation tuning systems. Rationale does not use scales, only collections of notes related by frequency ratio, infinitely transposable. Any rational frequency ratio can be an interval, but no tempered tunings.

Csmusgen (Csound music generator), is a music generator based on the concept of musical series, not intended as in the integral serialism, but rather as a module in continuous stochastic evolving.

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Rubato Composer is a music software based on the concepts and models of mathematical music theory and equally suited for music composition, analysis, performance, and logical or geometric operations.

SongPartTrackingMetronome is a simple programmable visual and acoustic metronome with bar-based song part tracking capabilities that guide the user through a song. It can help individuals and/or bands to keep track of the parts of a song while playing through them. SongPartTrackingMetronome is especially useful in songwriting either alone or together with a band and in rehearsing and practicing newly created songs or song parts, whose order within the song has not yet been fully memorized.

SuperBoucle is a loop based software fully controllable with any midi device. SuperBoucle is also synced with jack transport. You can use it on live performance or for composition. SuperBoucle is composed of a matrix of sample controllable with external midi device like pad. SuperBoucle will send back information to midi device (light up led). Sample will always start and stop on a beat or group of beats. You can adjust duration of sample (loop period) in beat and offset in beat. But you can also adjust sample offset in raw frame count negative or positive. Which mean sample can start before next beat (useful for reversed sample). You can record loop of any size, adjust BPM, reverse, normalize samples, ... Typical usage : * You need to control jack transport with external midi device and want a button to jump to a specified location in song. * You have some instruments patterns but you have no idea of song structure. * You make live performance with pre-recorded instruments.

A program that builds the sounds of the chord from its name. The chord building rules are applied with the respect to the requirements of music theory. The user interface is based on the WT library (c++ web toolkit).

Automatic Chord Sequence Analyser System Author site: http://arkhipenko.weebly.com

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.

Calliope is a NeXTStep music score notation editor being ported to MacOS X and GnuStep. It uses Cocoa and the open source MusicKit APIs. Calliope offers good support for typesetting modern and early musical scores, including lyrics and lute tablature.