Music Composition Software for BSD

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    Impro-Visor

    Impro-Visor

    Leadsheet notation with auto-generated playback, improvisation advice

    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.
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    Downloads: 85 This Week
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    MuseScore

    MuseScore

    Free music notation & composition software

    MuseScore is a free and open-source music notation software designed for composers, arrangers, educators, and musicians of all levels. It allows users to write, edit, and print professional-quality sheet music with no limitations or subscription fees. MuseScore Studio supports a wide range of instruments and ensembles, from solo piano and guitar to full orchestras and choirs. The software is easy to learn while still offering powerful tools for advanced notation and score layout. With support for MIDI input and formats like MusicXML and MIDI, MuseScore integrates smoothly with other music software and workflows. Built by a global open-source community, MuseScore continues to evolve through active development and community contributions. Support MuseScore at http://musescore.org/en/donate
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    Downloads: 51 This Week
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    Psycle Modular Music Creation Studio
    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.
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    Downloads: 48 This Week
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    SoundHelix

    SoundHelix

    Versatile algorithmic random music generation software written in Java

    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.
    Downloads: 20 This Week
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    Common Music

    Common Music

    An algorithmic music composition system

    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)
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    Downloads: 18 This Week
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    SID-Wizard

    SID-Wizard

    Featureful native Commodore 64 music tracker with MIDI/XM converter

    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/
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    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    Hamsi Manager

    Hamsi Manager

    at new home :-) https://github.com/supermurat/hamsi-manager

    at new home :-) https://github.com/supermurat/hamsi-manager
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    MusE - Linux Music Editor
    MusE is a Qt based audio/midi sequencer with editing and recording capabilities for linux.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Carnatic Music Typesetting
    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.
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    Piano and Drum kit

    Piano and Drum kit

    An Internet Browser Based Piano and Drum kit Software

    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.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    A virtual piano in flash. Play and record music with the mouse or keyboard.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    JChordBox

    JChordBox

    Give the chord progression and a style and jchordbox generates a song.

    Give the chord progression and a style and JChordBox generates a song. JChordBox is a library tool that can generate backing tracks from a chord progression and a music style. A music Style is describe using an XML and a MIDI file. You can generate an XML Style file from a MIDI file by adding markers to delimit grooves. An XML Song file describes a chord progression and sets the music style to use. JChordBox comes with several command line tools (GenerateSong, CreateStyleFromMidiFile, SongPlayer …). NEW:The application center is called SongPlayer and is a text based user interface that can play JChordBox song. SongPlayer is a MIDI Player that can loop a song, mute or soloing tracks and displays transport informations. SongPlayer is now the default jar application. NEW:Examples have been added to the distribution package.
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    JNIZ music notation audio to midi

    JNIZ music notation audio to midi

    music composition and notation software, audio to midi converter

    The Jniz project is stopped. The new Web version is now JnizWeb hosted on Gitlab (under construction): https://gitlab.com/jniz70/jnizweb/ Demo: https://jniz70.gitlab.io/jnizweb/ 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
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    ScoreDate

    ScoreDate

    ScoreDate is a software to learn music reading and ear training

    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.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Cross-platform audio loop slicer designed to create sliced loops from WAV, MP3, FLAC or AIFF files in seconds without a sequencer. Effects include filter sweeps, phasing, flanging, delay, and distortion.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    SoundComp
    A compiler library for a language integrating all that is needed for completely defining whole sound/music compilations. From very basic stuff as defining oscillators etc in all their parameters up to note events and more.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    GNUGuitarINUX
    GNUGuitarINUX is a GNU/Linux Live CD with a Realtime kernel aiming to be used as an electric guitar pedal effect.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Delius

    Delius

    Open-Source Braille Music Notation Software

    Delius is a free multiplataform music software based on braille music code and can be used either by sighted and non-sighted users. This software was developed in Java, has multilanguage support and it is intended to help visual impaired musicians to produce musical scores which can be exported to other symbolic music formats as MusicXML, MIDI and abc notation.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Rubato Composer
    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.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Strasheela is a constraint-based music composition system. The user defines music theories by sets of compositional rules and the system creates music which complies with these theories. User-interface is the programming language Oz.
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    superboucle

    superboucle

    Loop based software with jack transport, record and midi controllable

    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.
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    A music notation program to aid musicians in composing and understanding solos. Enable musicians to improve their understanding of chord changes and solos.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    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).
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    Automatic Chord Analyser

    Automatic Chord Analyser

    Automatic Chord Sequence Analyser System

    Automatic Chord Sequence Analyser System Author site: http://arkhipenko.weebly.com
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    Buzztrax Music Production Environment

    Buzztrax Music Production Environment

    Buzztrax is a modular music composer for Linux

    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.
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