Open Source Mac Music Composition Software
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View 65 business solutionsBrowse free open source Music Composition software and projects for Mac 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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FL Studio
The best music production software
FL Studio by Image-Line is a complete digital audio workstation (DAW) designed to turn your musical ideas into professional-quality tracks with ease. Trusted by world-renowned artists like Martin Garrix, Mustard, and Boi-1da, it’s built for producers of every genre — from EDM and hip-hop to pop and cinematic music. With an intuitive interface and powerful workflow, you can start creating in minutes while exploring endless possibilities as your skills grow. FL Studio comes packed with over 100 instruments and effects, a massive sound library, and world-class tools for composition, recording, and mastering. Its lifetime free updates ensure you’ll always have the latest features without extra cost. Whether on desktop or mobile, FL Studio delivers a fast, fun, and flexible production experience for beginners and pros alike. -
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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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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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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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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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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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A C++ library and Python module for audio synthesis featuring dynamic digital filters. Nsound lets you easily shape waveforms and write to disk or plot them. Nsound aims to be as powerful as Csound but easy to use.
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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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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 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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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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htmid
Generative Music For Beginners and Everyone Else
Generative music is a fascinating and innovative approach to music creation that involves creating procedurally generated music that evolves and changes over time. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned musician, this guide will introduce you to the world of generative music and show you how to create your own live music performances. Generative music is music that is ever-changing and created in real-time. It can be created by anyone, with or without musical experience. Learn how to create and enjoy generative music with our beginner's guide. Generative music is an exciting new way to create music that evolves and changes over time. This guide is perfect for beginners and those who want to learn more about how to create live generative music. -
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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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Microtones Library
Microtonal Music Notation and Playback for Sibelius, Kontakt, UVI, Max
This open-source plugin suite aims at extending Sibelius to allow it to handle microtonal music (up to the eighth-tone) and play it back with various synthesizers (currently Kontakt 5, UVI station and Max/MSP). This library offers among others the following features: − insertion of microtones in the music − transposition using microtonal intervals − precise polyphonic playback of microtonal music with Kontakt and Max/MSP, without the requirement for pitch bends (the standard playback system of Sibelius is limited to monodies, and its use of pitch bends entails undesired pitch glitches in the rendering) − handling of microtonal scales, build scales, check if the music material belongs to a given scale, warping from one scale to another one, transpose notes to the closest member of a microtonal scale, etc. − handling of microtonal artificial harmonics and microtonal glissandi The development of this library has been commissioned by the CIRM studios, Nice, France -
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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.
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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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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.
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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. -
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Bol Processor
A unique music composition and improvisation program using grammars
Bol Processor is a program for music composition and improvisation with real-time MIDI, MIDI file, and Csound output. It produces music from a set of rules (a compositional grammar) or from text scores which may be typed or captured from a MIDI instrument. -
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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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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.