Open Source Linux Music Composition Software
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Music Composition Software for Linux
View 17 business solutionsBrowse free open source Music Composition software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Music Composition software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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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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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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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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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 -
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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. -
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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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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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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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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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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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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. -
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Mutabor
Perform dynamic tunings for realtime music.
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. -
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MusE is a Qt based audio/midi sequencer with editing and recording capabilities for linux.
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Takt
Text-based Music Programming Tools
Takt is a text-based language for describing note and chord sequences as well as algorithmic compositon rules with C-like syntax. This software package contains a REPL (read-eval-play loop) interpreter for Takt, a MIDI-file-to-Takt translator, and an Emacs interface program which enables note entry from a MIDI keyboard. -
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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. -
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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. -
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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. -
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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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NeuralBlender
Guitar amp modeling plugin using Neural Amp Modeling technology
A simple, efficient but feature-rich amp modeling app and LV2 plugin based on RTNeural and NeuralAmpModeler (NAM) -
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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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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. -
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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. -
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Modus - C++ Music Library
Cross-platform C++ library to handle music from code
Modus is an open source, cross-platform C++ library which allows you to handle music from code. This means that you can: * Manage interactive and adaptive music * Use some kind of algorithm to improvise * Represent visually (simulate) musical performances * Select in real time the instruments that are going to play a previously written song * Let the user take part on the performance through any type of interface, by playing an instrument, changing the tempo, choosing the instruments, designing the structure of the song, etc. * Define song structures with metric modulations, accelerandos and ritardandos * Write your own scores, which can then be assigned to instruments to be played * Play along with a pre-recorded song or represent the performance * Everything else that comes into your head -
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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. -
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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.
