Open Source Windows Music Composition Software
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View 79 business solutionsBrowse free open source Music Composition software and projects for Windows 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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DarkAudacity
A customized version of Audacity
A free sound editor, DarkAudacity is the well known Audacity sound editor now with a darker more modern theme - and a few small tweaks. The audio engine underneath is the same audio engine. The same code powers it. Like Audacity it is completely free. It's not a cut down trial evaluation version. You can record and play sounds, edit sounds, apply audio effects and save what you create for ringtones, podcasts and more. DarkAudacity is Open Source, free for you to download and use on your PC. Audacity and DarkAudacity come from a community effort. Many people have contributed to the audio code. Because they are Open Source, anyone is allowed to read and modify the source code. DarkAudacity is a variation on the Audacity software, made possible because Audacity is Open Source. -
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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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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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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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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"). -
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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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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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modplug
A music tracker software for Windows.
NOTE: This is a legacy sourceforge project. Please download the software from https://openmpt.org/ instead. The official code repository can now be found at https://source.openmpt.org/browse/openmpt/ OpenMPT is a Windows-based audio application used to produce music. The application was initially a private project developed by Olivier Lapicque and is a popular 'tracker' used by many musicians. OpenMPT is available as both a 32-bit and 64-bit application. For more information and downloads, see https://openmpt.org/ libopenmpt, a cross-platform module playback library, is based on the OpenMPT project. Up-to-date libopenmpt downloads and documentation can be found at https://lib.openmpt.org/ -
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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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BlackDiamond FL Studio Clone
Fruityloops clone with sound samples using Fmodex lib
http://blackdiamond-fmodex.freeforums.net/ BlackDiamond (formerly Crazy Machine) is a project I neglected for years until I got back into making music. The package comes with free VST plugins (gonna hunt for some more) and samples, and soon to be introduced (If I can figure out the programming ms timelines) some point in time perfect sequencer sample mixer playback thingamagiggy we are now back in full armor trying to create the wildest dreams of software working on BlackDiamond (form. crazy machine). Works with DSOUND,ASIO,ALSA AND MORE PLUS AUTODETECT. Visit https://www.mediafire.com/file/rdzrrfbdrdpo2q9/fmodoutputrecent.wav/file https://www.mediafire.com/file/0990xqaeh9or3aw/fmodoutputrecentv3.0.20.wav/file to hear the latest demonstration of v3.0.20 currently at the time of writing this -
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Hamsi Manager
at new home :-) https://github.com/supermurat/hamsi-manager
at new home :-) https://github.com/supermurat/hamsi-manager -
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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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Kangas Sound Editor
Synthesizer, mixing, sound effects, music composition and production.
This kangaroo-themed program allows the user to create their own music and sound effects, effectively from scratch. There are two variants of the program: Kangas Sound Editor which requires MySQL for its database, and Kangas Sound Editor QI which does not (it uses an internal database - HSQLDB - instead). Kangas Sound Editor (QI) uses a system of boxes or cells, which are placed by the user onto a timeline using drag-and-drop, and which represent entities such as chords, repetition, and individual sounds or notes. The program's database allows the user to create and store harmonics, used for constructing melodic instruments, and anti-harmonics, which are used for constructing percussion instruments. Users can collaborate with and build on the work of others via an XML import/export facility. -
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Aural Probe
An automatic sample librarian tool for musicians
Aural Probe is a sample librarian tool for computer musicians/audio engineers. Automatically and non-destructively index your disorganised sample collection from a list of folders into categories (kick, snare, hihats etc.) based on folder/filename wildcard matches. Easily audition samples, load/save favourites, and drag-and-drop straight into your sequencer. -
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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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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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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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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 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.