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    eSpeak: speech synthesis
    Text to Speech engine for English and many other languages. Compact size with clear but artificial pronunciation. Available as a command-line program with many options, a shared library for Linux, and a Windows SAPI5 version.
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    Downloads: 2,789 This Week
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    Hydrogen

    Hydrogen

    An advanced drum machine with pattern-based programming

    Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.
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    Downloads: 1,797 This Week
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    Gnaural

    Gnaural

    Entrain your brain!

    A programmable audio generator intended as an aural aid to meditation, implementing the binaural beat principle as described in Gerald Oster's Oct. 1973 Scientific American article "Auditory Beats in the Brain."
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    Downloads: 464 This Week
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    Munt
    A multi-platform software synthesiser emulating (somewhat inaccurately) pre-GM MIDI devices such as the Roland MT-32, CM-32L, CM-64 and LAPC-I. In no way endorsed by or affiliated with Roland Corp. Source hosted at: http://www.github.com/munt/
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    Downloads: 239 This Week
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    eGuideDog free software for the blind
    eGuideDog project develops free software for the blind. Currently, we focus on WebSpeech, Ekho TTS and WebAnywhere.
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    Downloads: 179 This Week
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    Pure Data Computer Music System
    The Pure Data (short Pd) project on SourceForge unifies the extensions (or externals) written for the Pure Data Graphical Computer Music System written by Miller Puckette with contributions from many others.
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    Downloads: 122 This Week
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    ZynAddSubFX
    ZynAddSubFX is a powerful realtime, multi-timbral software synthesizer for Linux, OSX, and Windows. It is microtonal, and the instruments made by it sounds like those from professional keyboards. The program has effects like Reverb, Echo, Chorus, Phaser...
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    Downloads: 140 This Week
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    FluidSynth

    FluidSynth

    A real-time SoundFont software synthesizer

    A real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications. It can be used for live audio synthesis of MIDI events or for rendering MIDI files to disk, using SoundFont instruments. It can also be embedded in other applications. This is not a application with a graphical user interface, however there are several GUI applications which utilize FluidSynth.
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    Downloads: 96 This Week
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    Qsynth

    Qsynth

    A fluidsynth Qt GUI Interface

    Qsynth is a fluidsynth GUI front-end application, written in C++ around the Qt framework, using Qt Designer. Eventually it may evolve into a softsynth management application allowing the user to control and manage a variety of command line softsynths.
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    Downloads: 105 This Week
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    Yoshimi

    Yoshimi

    A Software synthesizer for Linux

    A software synthesizer for Linux, originally forked from ZynAddSubFX (Copyright 2002-2009 Nasca Octavian Paul) in 2009 by Alan Calvert. Initially, Yoshimi delivered the same synthesizer capabilities. After early improvement of Jack and Alsa midi/audio performance, now many new features have been added, and we are concentrating on accessibility. Yoshimi comes with a built-in User Guide, and there is also a highly detailed Advanced Reference Manual under continuous development: https://github.com/Yoshimi/yoshimi-doc/raw/master/pdf/yoshimi-advanced-reference-manual.pdf
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    Downloads: 69 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.
    Downloads: 44 This Week
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    AlsaModularSynth
    AlsaModularSynth is a MIDI controlled realtime modular synthesizer and effect processor with support for LADSPA and JACK.
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    Downloads: 44 This Week
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    Tone.js

    Tone.js

    A Web Audio framework for making interactive music in the browser

    Tone.js is an open source Web Audio framework for creating interactive music in the browser. It has advanced scheduling capabilities, synths, effects and more. Tone.js is built to be useful and familiar to both musicians and audio programmers. It has common DAW (digital audio workstation) features for those looking to schedule events and tinker with pre-built synths and effects. There’s also a great selection of high-performance building blocks for signal-processing programmers familiar with languages like Max/MSP. With Tone.js they can create their own synthesizers, effects, and complex control signals.
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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: 33 This Week
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    Bristol is synth emulation package for a diverse range of vintage synthesisers, electric pianos and organs. The application consists of a multithreaded audio synthesizer and a user interface called brighton.
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    Downloads: 37 This Week
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    Nyquist

    Nyquist

    Nyquist is a language for sound synthesis and music composition.

    Nyquist is a language for sound synthesis and music composition. It is implemented in C and C++ and runs on Win32, OSX, and Linux. Nyquist combines a powerful functional programming style with efficient signal-processing primitives. Nyquist is also embedded as a scripting language in Audacity.
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    Downloads: 41 This Week
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    Frinika

    Free open source DAW, MIDI sequencer, software synthesizers

    Frinika is a free, complete music workstation software for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX and other operating systems running Java. It features sequencer, soft-synths, realtime effects and audio recording.
    Downloads: 19 This Week
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    prodatum

    prodatum

    patch editor for the E-MU Proteus 2000 synthesizer family

    A cross-platform patch editor for the E-MU Proteus 2000 sample-based synthesizer family. prodatum is free software.
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    Downloads: 19 This Week
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    DSSI

    DSSI is an audio plugin API for soft synths and effects.

    DSSI is an audio plugin API for software instruments (soft synths) and effects. It is based on the LADSPA plugin API, the ALSA sequencer event types, and OSC (Open Sound Control) communications with custom GUIs.
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    Downloads: 78 This Week
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    Snd

    Snd is a sound editor

    Snd is a sound editor.
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    Downloads: 20 This Week
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    A Sequenced Binaural Wave Generator for Linux+Windows. May be used to generate sounds that entrain the brain's waves to oscillate at selected frequencies to aid in relaxation, lucid dreaming, meditation, clear thought, out-of-body experiences + more
    Downloads: 15 This Week
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    samplv1

    samplv1

    An old-school polyphonic sampler

    samplv1 is an old-school all-digital polyphonic sampler synthesizer with stereo fx.
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    Downloads: 29 This Week
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    SuperCollider

    SuperCollider

    Real-time audio synthesis engine and music programming language

    N.B. SuperCollider is now hosted at GitHub, and the most recent versions can be downloaded from there. http://supercollider.github.io A real time audio synthesis engine, and an object-oriented programming language specialised for music. SuperCollider was created in 1996 by James McCartney, now (since version 3) released as free software.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    A java front-end for LinuxSampler
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    Downloads: 23 This Week
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    drumkv1

    drumkv1

    An old-school drum-kit sampler

    an old-school drum-kit sampler with stereo fx.
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    Downloads: 23 This Week
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