Open Source Linux Music Composition Software

Music Composition Software for Linux

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    Frescobaldi

    Frescobaldi

    LilyPond sheet music text editor

    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.
    Downloads: 27 This Week
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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: 75 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
    Downloads: 71 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: 60 This Week
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    Rosegarden

    Rosegarden

    MIDI sequencer for Linux with music notation and audio

    The MIDI sequencer that features a rich understanding of music notation along with basic support for digital audio
    Downloads: 55 This Week
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    Overtone

    Overtone

    Collaborative programmable music

    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.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Scribbletune

    Scribbletune

    Create music with JavaScript

    Scribbletune is a JavaScript library for creating music and sequences using a simple and intuitive syntax, allowing developers to generate MIDI files and integrate music composition into their applications.
    Downloads: 4 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.
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    Downloads: 25 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: 24 This Week
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    Rakarrack Guitar Effects
    Rakarrack is a stereo digital effects processor for Linux with jack support. Standard line-up of nearly 40 effects modules include Equalizers, Reverbs, Echo, Flange, Chorus, Distortions, WahWah, Vocoder, and other filters and processing modules.
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    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    nbo-plugins

    An entire virtual orchestra in LV2 plugin format

    The No Budget Orchestra Plugins are a collection of virtual (software) musical instruments. comprising a full, classical orchestra There are flute, piccolo, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, trumpet, trombone, tuba, french horn, and various percussion sections. The various sections include articulations. For example, the violin section can play legato, pizzicato, staccato, and tremulo. There are subgroups as well, for example Violins I and II. The plugins are in LV2 (Linux) format for use in Ardour, Muse, QTractoor, etc. They are available in 2 formats; a collection of LV2 plugins, and a collection of linux executables. The plugins can be loaded into a host program such as Ardour, Muse, QTractor, etc. The executables are standalone versions that contain both the samples, and the engine that plays them.
    Downloads: 61 This Week
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    BackupBand

    Music auto-arranger follows your chord changes live and plays along

    BackupBand is a music auto-arranger. It has a virtual drummer, bassist, and rhythm guitarist. These 3 "musicians" follow your chord changes live (as you play some MIDI instrument, such as a keyboard) and they play along with you in perfect time. It's like having a live rhythm section backing you up. The rhythm section knows how to play in 60 different styles such as Rock, Disco, HipHop, Heavy Metal, Reggae, Swing, various latin styles, etc. You can also create your own styles for them to play. The bassist plays a rickenbacker, fender precision, synth, and double (acoustic) bass. The guitarist plays a les paul, steel string, and nylon string. The drummer plays 6 kits. You can also create your own multi-sampled guitars, basses, and kits for them to play.
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    Downloads: 18 This Week
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    Echo Voice Recorder

    Echo Voice Recorder

    Simple Voice Recorder Application for Debian Based Linux Systems

    This is a good audio recording app that's extremely lightweight and requires minimal dependencies. It records your microphone and, if desired, your system sounds. https://github.com/shampuan/Echo-Voice-Recorder 5 audio formats: wav, mp3, ogg, flac, aac. 7 language options: Azerbaijani, German, English, Spanish, French, Turkish (default), Russian.
    Downloads: 18 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: 6 This Week
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    PsalticTools

    a set of utilities for working with Byzantine sheet music

    PsalticTools includes: • a set of utilities (plugins) for typing of Byzantine notes in parallel double notation (Byzantine and Western), based on MuseScore free music editor; • the PsalticHelper program for searching for formulas of Byzantine music in music books. • the UniPsaltica2 font with the characters of the musical Byzantine notation in Unicode.
    Downloads: 25 This Week
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    abc2midiu

    Updated version of abc2midi

    This project is to create an updated version of abc2midi, a tool to generate MIDI files from abc music notation. As well as improving the code, the intention is to integrate features from and improve compatibilty with the abc 2.2 standard.
    Downloads: 24 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: 4 This Week
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    QMidiArp

    QMidiArp

    Linux MIDI arpeggiator, phrase generator and controller LFO

    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.
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    Downloads: 14 This Week
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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: 8 This Week
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    Guitar Chord Player

    Type in chord progressions, and hear them played on guitar

    Simply type in the names of the chords that you'd like played, with a space between each chord. Set the tempo by entering a delay time (in fractions of second) to be paused between each chord. Click the start button to hear the chords played repeatedly. Save and load progression for any songs you've created. Chord types include major triad, minor triad, dominant 7th ("7"), major 7th ("maj7"), minor 7th ("m7"), diminished 7th ("dim7"), and half diminished 7th ("m7b5").
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    The MidiRandomizer is a Java Swing application that generates MIDI files (SMF) according to a set of randomization parameters. This allows some measure of control over the random patterns produced.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Toadflax

    Toadflax

    graphical front-end for editing/transposing abc music files

    Toadflax is a graphical tool for displaying and editing/manipulating tunes in abc notation. It exists in two forms, Toadflax built using GTK and py_toadflax built using tkinter, the python window toolkit. It allows the user to load in abc music notation files and work on each one independently. The music is displayed on-screen, without needing to use a PostScript interpreter, making it a lightweight notation viewer. The Toadflax program uses a music renderer based on yaps, while py_toadflax uses the music renderer from the abcCairo project based on abcm2ps. The source can be hand-edited or transformed in various ways using an adaptation of the abc2abc program. Perhaps the most useful feature that this provides is transposition with the ability to instantly see the effect of a transposition.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    A virtual piano in flash. Play and record music with the mouse or keyboard.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    The MIDI Agent System (MAS) uses the interaction between different agents to generate MIDI notes. This software is designed for live use and it enables the performer to have real time control over very complex music.
    Downloads: 5 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: 4 This Week
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